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In reply to the discussion: Russ Feingold: Obama Super PAC Reversal Will Lead To 'A Legalized Abramoff System' [View all]FedUp_Queer
(975 posts)That you can't read where HE PROPOSED IN HIS BUDGET cutting the CDBG.
That you are not able to understand where HE PROPOSED INDEFINITE DETENTION and DETENTION OF ACQUITTED PERSONS IN HIS SPEECH.
That HE ORDERED THE HIT ON AN AMERICAN CITIZEN WITHOUT TRIAL.
So, go on believing that his words are not his words; that his actions are not his actions. I get it. I get it that you are angry. So, let me just say it this way. The Administration's FY2012 that proposed a 7.5% cut in the CDBG was not his budget. That speech where he talked about dressing up indefinite detention in some sort of concocted legal framework/star chamber were not really his words because, I don't know, he didn't write the speech? I get it that he signed the NDAA with its cute provisions that allow the government to indefinitely detain American citizens captured on US Soil, but he didn't really believe in that, even though he said he'd veto it and then didn't, but then issued a "signing statement" that he wouldn't do it, cross his heart hope to die, stick a needle in his eye. So, I get it.
While we're at it, he never said this in a speech in 2007 in Spartanburg, SC where he said this:
Understand this: If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain, when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I'll walk on that picket line with you, as president of the United States of America. Because workers deserve to know that someone's standing in their corner
I get it. He never said that. Finally, he never said he would "Allow Americans to buy their medicines from other developed countries if the drugs are safe and prices are lower outside the U.S." and then reneged.
http://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_be075510-e4d3-11de-9691-001cc4c002e0.html
So...my bad. I'm right, you're wrong. Obama is against indefinite detention, but he felt compelled to sign the NDAA and propose detaining acquitted people. He proposed cuts to the CDBG in FY2012 because he felt he had to. He didn't want to do any of it. I get it. So, there you have it. You're right. I'm wrong. None of it ever happened because he never said, signed or proposed it.
And good on ya for the being THE enforcer, imprimatur and nihil obstat for DU.