Actially I am not really a fan of obama but I think he did whatever he could for the betterment of his country I love the way he lift up confindence of the blacks and get rid of racism , well I hope he enjoy his presidency Goodbye Obama and welcome Donal Trumps !!
http://bretigne.typepad.com/on_the_banks/2017/01/speechless-in-2017.htmlSo in case you (like some of my friends) somehow missed out on what’s been happening over the past eight years, let me catch you up:
1. We no longer have a Fourth Amendment, nor the right of habeas corpus (you remember: it was kind of the foundation of our justice system). Yes, the demise of these fundamental protections has been a long time coming, but President Obama delivered the death blow when he gave himself (and all future presidents) the right to imprison indefinitely or even assassinate any human being on the planet with no due process whatsoever.
Number One should be enough. Any normal person should look at the first item on this list and say “OK, I guess that’s a little bit worse than making fun of a disabled reporter.” (And I say this as the mother of an intellectually disabled daughter.) But, because I know it won’t be enough, I’ll continue…
2. Obama has bombed more countries than George W. Bush did, and his drone strikes have killed more than six times as many people as those under Bush, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (killing unintended victims 90% of the time.)
3. He has given himself (and all future presidents) the power to wage war without Congressional approval.
4. He has greatly expanded the mass surveillance of American citizens.
5. He put in place a statist health insurance mandate that has sent insurance premiums skyrocketing.
6. He has continued the same brand of crony capitalism and debt expansion of the previous administration.
7. He has deported more than 2.5 million immigrants - more than any other American president in history.
8. After running on a platform of more government transparency, he has presided over an administration more hostile than any other to whistleblowers and a free press.
9. Police brutality has not abated, nor has the mass incarceration of Americans (and especially black and Hispanic Americans. Maybe it’s only “racism” if the president is a white Republican?)
10. Did I mention he - and all future presidents - now has the legal right to kill anyone on the planet, including American citizens, with no conviction, no charges, no semblance of due process at all. Did I mention that?
Yes, there have been other things. There have even been a few marginally good things. I applauded when Obama commuted the sentences of hundreds of non-violent drug offenders (though I also wondered how that news went down with the rest of the more than a million non-violent prisoners who won’t be getting out), and I cried happy tears when he commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning. These are undeniably good actions. But they are “good” in the same sense that flowers from an abusive spouse are good. They don’t even begin to make up for the bad.
