Is Barack Obama a Tory? Or another fascist prick who murders people trying to rescue drone victims.

[jochen stremmel]

Thanks for posting that, Joseph; it's what I thought, only worse.

2012/9/26 Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>:
> Glenn Greenwald discusses a Stanford University study on drone killings.
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/25/study-obama-drone-deaths
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> On Sep 25, 2012, at 10:08 AM, Joseph Tracy wrote:
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> I don't buy it. FDR was a moderate reformist. Obama is Romney with a
> different style. Romney's health care, Republican military imperialism with
> drones, bailer of billionaires, friend of big oil and mountaintop removal in
> an age of global warming, no democratic money to oppose Ryan and endorser of
> all laws for a police state: NDAA, amnesty for spying on private citizens,
> amnesty for torture, Guantanamo still open, more immigrants deported than
> Bush, more survellance powers to NSA, silent endorsement of police brutality
> to address occupy protests. Traditionally these things are associated with
> dictators and fascism. Obama is a logo for the American war machine and the
> corporatocracy. If McCain did the exact same things, the Democrats  would be
> outraged.
> On Sep 24, 2012, at 5:11 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
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> ... the current presidential election as one between Romney - whom he
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> sees as man with an Ayn Rand-like philosophy of personal
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> responsibility to the point of divisiveness - and Obama, a Benjamin
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> Disraeli-like candidate, whom Sullivan views as believing in the
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> obligation of the coherence of the nation.
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>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19577434
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>
> There’s a better label for Obama than conservative: Tory. The
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> President is no kind of revolutionary. The change we can believe in is
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> the change needed so things can remain much as they were. This is one
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> reason why he has disappointed what remains of the Democratic left.
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>
> http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/alex-massie/2012/08/is-barack-obama-a-tory/
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>
> ... Obama is, in my view, the conservative reformist of my dreams.
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> Almost the entire Tory party in Britain would now fit comfortably in
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> the Democratic Party - and Cameron is clearly closer to Obama than to
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> Romney. In fact, there is no mainstream conservative party in the West
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> even close to the GOP's fundamentalist, revolutionary populism.
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>
> http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/americas-tory-president.html
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