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In reply to the discussion: Obama should never have signed the NDAA into law, signing statements or not. [View all]PurityOfEssence
(13,150 posts)I'm sick of the apologists sniveling the he can only do the meek and passive enabling that he does. If he had stuck his neck out--for fucking ONCE--and made a stink about forthcoming legislation or made specific requests or demands, it might have stuck. Forget that, though; it's much more important for him and his supporters for him to be "the coolest guy in the room". Besides all that, he LIKES the imperial control, and people are shockingly idiotic in their continual belief that he's anything but a rather right-leaning corporatist.
It is jaw-droppingly incomprehensible that people still see him as some champion of the little guy and anything approaching a true leader; it's beyond mere hero-worship: it's some kind of religion. Nothing but apologies and chickenshit justifications abound, and we're somehow supposed to watch our lives, our children's futures and the biosphere itself take a nosedive just so he can be lauded as some transcendent super-genius and his most ardent pom-pom flailers won't have to have their fragile and selfish egos confronted with the reality of their egregious mistake.
The whole display is disgusting.