Obama Supports Extending Patriot Act

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/15/obama-supports-extending-provisions-patriot-act/?test=latestnews



Obama Supports Extending Provisions of the Patriot Act


Lawmakers and civil rights groups had been pressing the Democratic administration to say whether it wants to preserve the post-Sept. 11 law's authority to access business records, as well as monitor so-called "lone wolf" terrorists and conduct roving wiretaps.



TG: We could use some of that "change" Obama promised. Where is it?

"Right Wing Nutballs"

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32809316/ns/politics-washington_post/

Top McCAIN advisor decries Tea Parties: "right-wing nutballs are aligning themselves with these movements".

So if McCain would have won, what would be different?

Politically - nothing.

Geopolitical "change"?

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http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090824_obamas_foreign_policy_end_beginning/?utm_source=Snapshot&utm_campaign=none&utm_medium=email

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090209_munich_continuity_between_bush_and_obama_foreign_policies

Especially in foreign policy, the more things "change", the more things stay the same.

As we have mentioned before, the single most remarkable thing about Obama’s foreign policy is how consistent it is with the policies of former President George W. Bush. Still, it is worth pausing to note how little Obama has deviated from the Bush foreign policy.

First, instead of ordering an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, he adopted the Bush administration’s policy of a staged withdrawal keyed to political stabilization and the development of Iraqi security forces. While he tweaked the timeline on the withdrawal, the basic strategy remained intact. Indeed, he retained Bush’s defense secretary, Robert Gates, to oversee the withdrawal. Second, he increased the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Read the whole article. It's chock full of Bush policies that Obama has continued.

NEWT SUPPORTS OBAMA ON EDUCATION

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090814/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_obama_education

WASHINGTON – Education Secretary Arne Duncan is joining forces with two unlikely allies, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, to push cities to fix failing schools. The trio will visit Philadelphia, New Orleans and Baltimore later this year. They plan to add more stops as their tour progresses.

TG: But, but, Newt Gingrich is a conservative Republican, isn't he?

The president has vowed to make the United States the world leader in the number of people who graduate from college.

TG: That means they have to make the requirements easier again. Then they wonder why our kids keep getting dumber (but they are trained to be cogs in the machine).

Obama on Drugs: 98% Cheney?

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http://www.gregpalast.com/obama-on-drugs-98-cheney/?print=1

Now this is from the left. See how close together we are on not only this issue, but others of Obama's actions as well? Stay united, do NOT under any circumstances buy into the "right/left" paradigm and let these corrupt sociopaths off the hook.

NEW Homeland Security Strategy

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Same as the OLD Homeland Security Strategy

http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/single.php?id=8412



In a speech today to the Council of Foreign relations, DHS secretary Janet Napolitano will unveil the administration's homeland security strategy; the emphasis will be on continuing and expanding many of the Bush administration's initiatives, but with greater emphasis on protecting civil liberties ...


TG: That's impossible! Bush was a conservative Republican and Obama is a liberal Democrat. Bush was a warmonger, but Obama is going to get us out of the war. They can't possibly be working toward the same end.

And the CFR, they're not really working hand-in-hand with both parties to merge America into a socialist New World Order. Why that's conspiracy nut nonsense. Rush Limbaugh said so.

Pro-War Republicans Should LOVE Obama

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Warmongering weenie neocon Republicans (like Herb and Tommy) should LOVE President Obama.

He is currently almost doubling our troop presence in Afghanistan from 38,000 to 68,000. Even Dick Cheney was giddy, gushing, "I was glad to see President Obama commit additional troops to Afghanistan."

During April we dropped a record number of bombs in Afghanistan. I don't know what's left of Afghanistan to bomb after the initial shock & awe campaign sent them back into the stone age, but neocon warmongers should be elated with Obama nonetheless. They don't care why we are killing them, so long as we are killing them.

What purpose we have now in Afghanistan is unknown. There are no more al Qaeda operatives there (according to Gen. Petraeus), we chased them all out (and mostly into Iraq) long ago. But so long as we are killing Muslims, or at least torturing them, it doesn't matter to the weenies if we have a purpose.

We have also seen a sharp increase in attacks on civilians there. Obama is using attacks by drone (unmanned) planes to kill innocent civilians, including women and children. But again, the pro-war weenies don't care if those we kill are innocent, so long as we are killing Arabs.

Anti-Obama Christians were worried that he would slack off in our war on terror. Instead he has made George W. Bush look like a pacifist in comparison. The pro-war Republicans should be elated with Obama. He has increased the war on terror effort and exceeded President Bush in the matter.