Zim: I truly wish that a large number of half wits
would recognize . . . that they should ask 'Why should
they vote FOR someone' . . . and the answer "He's NOT
George Bush" is not a good reason.
218 reasons NOT to vote for Obama
http://www.postlibertarian.com/2012/03/218-reasons-not-to-vote-for-obama/
There was recently a post on Forbes going around the Internet called “218 reasons to vote for Obama.” In the interest of fairness and equality I thought it would be helpful to provide 218 reasons not to vote for Obama, and unlike many of the exaggerated or deceptive or completely inaccurate reasons in the original list, I am providing linked citations for every one of my claims.
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1. Continued the practice of indefinite detentions for alleged terrorists without review (link, link)
2. Dropped threat to veto NDAA (link) and signed it, encoding severe government power advances into law (link)
3. Announced “Withdrawal Plan” that leaves more troops in Afghanistan than when he started (link)
10. Granted a waiver allowing four countries to continue receiving US military aid even though they use child soldiers (link)
23. Requested thousands of secret spying warrants (link)
24. Defended the use of warrantless wiretapping (link)
25. Tried to stop the Supreme Court from hearing a challenge of warrantless wiretapping (link)
37. Allowed weapons to pass into the hands of Mexican drug cartels which were later linked to deaths of American border patrol agents (link)
38. Sealed records on the death of one of those agents (link)
48. Broke promise to reduce earmarks to 1994 levels (link)
51. Issued signing statement that he did not need to abide by provisions addressing aid for the IMF and World Bank (link)
52. Did this despite promise not to use signing statements to nullify instructions from Congress (link, link, link)
55. Failed to disclose visits by industry executives while crafting health care reform legislation (link)
56. Tried to block a ruling that White House visitor logs had to be released to the public (link)
57. Eventually released the records and claimed that release was evidence of his “transparent” government, despite the fact that he went to court to keep them secret (link)
58. Frequently met with lobbyists off campus to hide from the public and keep visits out of White House visitor logs (link)
59. Tried to block a court-ordered release of detainee abuse photos (link)
60. Cited exceptions to open records laws thousands of times more than Bush (link)
NEW! Honorable Mention: 36 Obama staffers are delinquent on more than $800,000 in taxes (link)
71. Required American citizens, for the first time, to purchase a product from a private business through the “individual mandate.” I don’t care if Republicans came up with the idea first; I don’t care if you need it to make the health care bill work; and it’s not like state car insurance, either. It is (I believe) a severe and unconstitutional overreach that sets a dangerous precedent of almost unlimited government, and conservatives and liberals alike should agree that this insurance company hybrid system is a far worse health care solution than either free-market or government-run “single payer” systems. (link)
74. Established unreasonable requirements on organizations and then granted over 1500 waivers from those requirements to those with the connections or resources to get approved (link), with labor unions receiving the overwhelming majority (link)
(List does go on. Zim.)
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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