Monday, March 24, 2014

Coleen Rowley — Obama Ensnared in Bush’s Abuses

President Obama’s fateful decision – after winning the 2008 election to seek “continuity” rather than “change” and “to look forward, not backward” – has trapped him in a web of constitutional abuses that began in the Bush-43 presidency and extended into his own....
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Coleen Rowley | retired FBI agent and former chief division counsel in Minneapolis. She’s now a dedicated peace and justice activist and board member of the Women Against Military Madness and works with the Veterans for Peace chapter in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

I'd call it President Obama’s unprincipled expedient decision rather than fateful decision, although it was that, too. It will sink his legacy down to the level of George W. Bush as one of the most un-American and despotic administrations on record with respect to constitutional, civil rights and liberties, and human rights abuses.
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Roger Erickson said...

we're all ensnared, backing the ongoing abuses propagated by the 1%, and their lobbyists who will do anything in their power to maintain their hegemony over the Middle Class

even if they have to slit their own throats

as usual, kinder, wiser people have to save these clever sociopaths from themselves

March 24, 2014 at 5:54 PM

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