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Personally, I don't care who is in The WH from Conse 'Pub to Lib Dem, but just do the job. Granted, I'm more left of center than ever after 8 years of The Clinton-Ken Starr Admin., after 8 years of Bush-Cheney with 118 questionable actions, and after 1 year of daily attacks on Obama. Obama has gotten more in 1 year than Bush got in 8 years, and it's not just the pols. It's the right media, and citizens.
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There's no argument, the right-media is letting BO have it. But at the same time, BO does things that should prompt an objective journalist to ask probing follow up questions and the left-media just lets it go. Also, the administration wants to (sometimes demands to) preview questions whenever possible. That's not how it's supposed to work.
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This is just me, which is why Palin is so unappealing to me.
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She's unappealing to me too. Politically that is. Other than that, she's kinda hot.
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As far as Obama's questionable actions, I'll name 8.
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1. 50 Gitmo prisoners who'll be imprisoned for life without charge, and/or with tarnished evidence (waterboarding).
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2. Wiretapping continues.
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This is a tough one. Presumably they only wiretap questionable people, and it has netted results. On the other hand, they could wiretap anyone. But do they? Who knows?
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3. No Wall Street restrictions for a year.
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That's that free market thing.
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4. Pushing for bi-partisanship with pols who opening brag they will negotiate in poor faith to slow down and stop legislation only.
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Polls show that the american people are against health care and out of control government spending. There is no one in congress with voting power to represent these people who are the majority. So republicans use the only tool they have which is to slow down or stop legislation.
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5. Upping The Afgan War with more troops after 8 years.
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I'm not sure about this one because I've never heard from BO what our goal in Afghanistan is, or what his larger picture of the war on terror is, if any.
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6. The Iraq War not ending soon enough.
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I'm fine with this war ending because we have for the most part won it.
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7. Not prosecuting war crimes above the legalized torture of Yoo
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huh?
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8. and below is very quiet.
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below what?
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I only say 118 questionable Bush actions, some are no longer questionable, because none are prosecuted.
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From what I've seen there are multitudes of gripes attributed to Bush, when what's really going on isn't so black and white. And also things like Abu Ghraib being blamed on Bush when it was actually service men & women who committed those acts on their own.
And this summarizes my thoughts pretty well about the start of the Iraq war...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5p-qIq32m8