Obama Exceeds Bush in Immigration Enforcement
I know someone who refuses to hear anything negative about President Barack Obama. I have been an Obama supporter since before the primary, and I worked in his campaign. But I have now come to the conclusion that he is far from progressive or liberal on a great many issues. Often his backbone or strength of character is sadly lacking too.
If I dare mention anything of the sort around her she gets highly disagreeable. The attack dog turns on full force, and she gets so mean and hateful that her behavior is in danger of destroying our friendship.
The Rachel Maddow show had a piece about how the Obama team has been more effective in rounding up and deporting Mexican illegal aliens than even the Bush Jr. administration was. LINK: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#38459197
Obama's words are good, but his behavior has been more of a warmonger than Bush/Cheney. He has greatly increased spending on warfare, and the troop levels for the various futile and unwinnable wars we are involved in has gone way up. By his actions Barack has proven that he is more pro-nuclear than his Republican predecessor. Before the BP disaster in the Gulf President Obama approved off shore oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas that even Bush II didn't dare. His reform of the unregulated crooks on Wall Street ended up being so weak that it is barely better than nothing at all.
Obama openly lied about his support for “single payer” health care, then he didn't even put his support behind the much weaker “vigorous government option.” On a great many issues he kowtows and panders to the racists and the right wing Republicans, but he gets zero credit or votes from them. He keeps getting sand kicked in his face, but doesn't seem capable of learning from his past mistakes. At the same time he allows his chief of staff to call the liberals and progressives of the Democratic party “retards.” These liberals-progressives form the brain trust and the focal point of energy for the Democrats. And Obama doesn't just take the progressives for granted...he continues to slap them in the face. Immigration reform, conservation, gay rights, ending the wars. Its all just talk from another sleazy Chicago politician. This man is not a statesman.
Over the course of her life my friend has not learned that it is entirely possible to be mature and be able to disagree on important issues and discuss controversial subjects without becoming disagreeable. I have valued her friendship for many years, but now she is doing everything she can to destroy whatever friendship was left. What a pity.
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