Actor John Cusack:
Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize while sending 30,000 more troops to a ten-year-old conflict. Why? We’ll never fully know.
Under Obama do we continue to call the thousands of mercenaries in Afghanistan “general contractors” now that Bush is gone? No, we don’t talk about them… not a story anymore.
Do we prosecute felonies like torture or spying on Americans? No, time to “move on.”
Drones bomb Pakistani villages across the border at an unprecedented rate. Is it legal? Does anyone care?
The American dream, home ownership, education, the opportunity to get a good job if you applied yourself … and on and on. Yeah, what happened to that? It’s gone.
I don’t know how to bring myself to vote for a constitutional law professor, or even a constitutional realist, who throws away due process and claims the authority that the executive branch can assassinate American citizens. I just don’t know if I can bring myself to do it.
If you want to make a protest vote against Romney, go ahead, but I would think we’d be better putting our energies into local and state politics — occupy Wall Street and organizations and movements outside the system, not national politics, not personalities. Not stadium rock politics. Not brands.
Source: The above is from “Interview with Law Professor Jonathan Turley About Obama Administration’s War On the Constitution” by John Cusack – Aug 20, 2012. I added the emphasis. I disagree with just about every political position Cusack stated in his article. You’d think someone so far left of center would be firmly in Obama’s base. Not any more! You can read the original @ https://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/john-cusack-jonathan-turley-on-obamas-constitution/
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Media: Obama is egotistical, selfish, dull – Sep 3, 2012
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/80598.html
Excerpts: As the Democratic National Convention gets under way, five major media outlets lobbed high-profile bombs at Obama.
- The New York Times ran a front-page piece Monday with the unmistakable subtext that Obama is a hyper-competitive egotist who often is not as good as he thinks he is.
- The Washington Post noted the continued controversy over Obama’s “you didn’t build that” line, and how the clumsy remark continues to leave him vulnerable to criticism that he doesn’t understand free enterprise.
- The Huffington Post argued that, for all his promises of a new kind of politics, Obama has “played the same old game.”
- The Wall Street Journal weighed in with a piece that portrayed Obama as stingy with fundraising — and vocal support — for fellow Democratic candidates. “We really do believe a high tide raises all boats,” Obama campaign manager Jim Messina told the Journal, explaining how Obama’s success would help others win.
- And POLITICO landed with an against-the-grain portrait of Obama as a conventional president — “relentlessly familiar” in his governing style, politically uncreative and culturally uninspiring.
The convergence of skeptical pieces, all of which suggest Obama has failed to live up to the mythic expectations he set for himself in 2008, signal that Obama may be facing unprecedented media headwinds just as the nation’s voters are really tuning in to the 2012 campaign.
Elizabeth Warren DNC speech: Charlotte star, Massachusetts underdog – Sep 3, 2012
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/80607.html
Excerpt: Elizabeth Warren will take the stage in Charlotte on Wednesday night feted as one of the Democratic Party’s brightest stars, a heroine of the progressive left and potential presidential material. Back in Massachusetts, to the amazement of many in her party, Warren enters the fall home stretch against Republican Sen. Scott Brown behind in polls, trailing among independents and even failing to lock down her own party.
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