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In reply to the discussion: Obama’s “Dirty Wars” — and a soiled presidency [View all]humbled_opinion
(4,423 posts)failed in their own Democratic principles. The President has not lived up to his own standards, let alone Democratic standards, liberal standards and certainly not Progressive standards this can be proven based on the comments that he made during his own 2008 campaign, now he can try to explain to the American people why Bush was right, or he can try and explain why he had no choice but to continue what is clearly wrong, or he can do nothing and continue to run the most secretive, civil liberties destroying presidency in our nations history. Either way he will be judged by history for this, and those that care about his legacy beyond 2016 do him no favors by coddling him in this regard.
IOW's he certainly isn't running for re-election again but we will have a Democratic candidate to be the standard bearer, she would be wise to speak out soon on the abuses of power we are witnessing.