Eoin Higgins of The Intercept argues that had Obama investigated and prosecuted Bush administration officials, Brett Kavanaugh would probably never have made it to the Supreme Court
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I wish the Bush team had been investigated and charges brought against them. I also wish that the Obama adminitration had been investigated and charges brought against them.
Trump is not Republican and no longer a registered Democrat. He has his own party. It's called MAGA under the guise of the Republican party. We don't have definitive parties other than the Constitutional Liberatarian's.
Good, honest discussion. Refreshing. Thanks.
He screwed US! I'm slow, I'm waking up to the fact that the dems have been the FAKE LIBERALS, "Oh, we tried…look forward….we won the elections, but we have to go forward anyway and give up on the truth"! Paved the way for the morbidly rich to take our money & power! WTF The only way we can run this country by & for the people if if everyone gets new people involved in our gov. and who genuinely care about US, not $$$$-"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Vote
Ruth Bader Ginsburg should have retired during the beginning of Obama's 2nd term.
America is a seriously divided country, one cannot blame President Obama for not wanting to make that worse.
Rewarding the criminals for a job well done…
More likely this channel and the Bernie or Bust people paved the way for Kavanaugh appointment.
Here's just SOME of the criminal filth Obama and the so-called “New Democrats†(aka corporate dems) accomplished and how that opened the door for Trump and his criminal regime to grow and fester:
The abolition of welfare: no social security, no medicare/medicaid, no food stamps, etc.,
The deregulation of the financial system,
The illegal attacks on Syria,
The illegal attacks on Yemen,
The bailout of Wall Street, ($700 Billion TARP),
The $4.7 Trillion “Quantitative Easing†handout to the financial sector,
The crackdown on whistleblowers (e.g. Snowdon, others),
The crackdown on the Water Protectors at Standing Rock, belies Obama’s “Clean Power Plan†was mere lip service,
The crackdown on Occupy,
The attack on freedom of the press, saying “reporter's privilege†does not exist (Jim Risen case)
The refusal to pardon whistleblowers (e.g. Snowdon, Van Buren, more),
The slashing of wages for autoworkers,
The appointment of Tom Wheeler, an industry insider, to head the FCC (thence Ajit Pai),
The Flint Michigan lead in the water cover up, outright betraying the citizens of Flint,
Drone-missile warfare with no congressional oversight,
The destruction of Libya,
The build-up of NSA mass surveillance,
The expansion of US military bases to 80+ countries,
The weakening on the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act to allow the use military force domestically
The military coup in Honduras ousting “Mel†Zelaya,
The murder of Berta Cáceres,
Mass deportations, more than in any other period in US history,
Mass incarcerations,
CIA Operation Timber Sycamore in Syria,
The parliamentary coup in Brazil, ousting Dilma Rousseff,
Blocking Argentina’s loan at the Inter-American Development Bank and the WB, leading to regime change
The expansion of the Endless War in Afghanistan,
The murder of an old, sick captive purely for political purposes,
Manipulating the OAS to overturn the Haiti elections, threatening to deny post-earthquake aide, leading to regime change and mass disenfranchisement,
The expansion of the strategic nuclear weapons program,
The kill list
The expansion of covert military operations to over 70 countries,
The expansion of the AUMF
The revolving door: The appointment of former Eli Lilly executive, Alex Azar, to head of HHS
The revolving door: The lucrative position at Lockheed Martin for former DHS head Jeh Johnson
The revolving door: Geitner to head Mariner Finance, a firm that preys on the poor.
The revolving door: Mary Shapiro from the SEC to board of directors of Morgan Stanley
The end of habeas corpus, detentions without trial and arrests without cause
The failure to stop Russia for meddling in the 2016 Presidential elections
The failure to punish Russia for meddling in the 2016 Presidential elections, (what got Trump in trouble in Helsinki . . . they looked the other way when Obama did the same thing)
The missing $10 Trillion; concerted Bush-Obama-Trump tax cuts resulted in the loss of $10T from the public funds of which $2T went directly to the 1%
The passing of PROMESA Act to protect Wall Street’s interests in Puerto Rico at the expense of local sovereignty: an outside board rules over the island, effectively PR is now a colony,
The appointment of Arne Starkey Duncan as Sec. of Education: Common Core Exam, public schools replace with charter schools — so-called ‘militarization of education†that enabled De Vos,
NOT standing up to climate-change deniers; NOT standing up to science deniers; NOT definitively supporting the Water Protectors and shutting down DAPL — thus opening the door to Trump’s staunch denialism and the US pulling out of the Paris Agreement,
Allowing Ag industry lobbyist, CropLife, to kickoff the EPA panel Dr. Peter Infante; the panel was about to investigate Monsanto’s glyphosate-based flagship product, RoundUp,
. . . every week we discover yet more Obama-era/ Obama-enabled shenanigans! Obama basically made possible the Trump wrecking ball. Talk about collusion. Talk about treason. That’s the real collusion. That's the real treason. Our struggle is less and less with Russia and more and more with Goldman Sachs.
Ever wonder why Obama has such a contagious smile? Turns out he’s laughing all the way to the bank.
So what’s next for Goldman Sachs, Obama’s paymasters?
IMHO, The old “hope and change†deception wagon; specifically, the hijacking of Universal Basic Income movement, the UBI movement.
Wall Street’s Goals?
Restore Obama’s standing among democrats,
Shut out progressives,
Keep UBI from actually happening, or take the credit if it does, so progressives don’t.
"We tortured some folks." The Obama Legacy. And then there were those whose criminal activities resulted in the Crash of '08, who got free money from the Fed, while abysmally low interest rates caused pension and retirement funds to approach collapse. What a guy.
When it comes to war crimes resulting from imperialist aggression there is only one party — the party of Empire. They protect each other.
George Carlin: "It's all a club, and you ain't in it"
What has been the difference between any of the Presidents since and including Reagan other than rhetoric? Surprisingly not much. They all get lobbied by the same people and or owe favors to special interest.
This guest may have the point. However, as the Republicans became Bushublicans, as in the case of today Trumpublicans, even if Obama had wanted to investigate into G.W. Bush's war crimes and illegal surveillance, the whole thing would have met with tremendous resistance as the Mueller investigation meeting with Trumpublicans' resistances.
What is really the problem or even danger is the corruption in the machinery of nationhood or statehood that has eroded the mental capacity of the entire people and the imagination of the politicians as to how poor maintenance of one's mental nimbleness and ethical maxim can lead to eventual detriment of the entire nation, dragging the entire world down to doomsday circumstances over time.
Obama, at the beginning of his campaign, did not espouse American exceptionalism, say that all countries had a right to feel great based on history. He did not wear the flag in his lapel. But later he was obliged to do so. Obama never persecuted the banks, or violations of international law; of course he helped pave the way for Kavanaugh. Far right sentiment is deep within our culture and it is just freeing itself from all constraints or alternatives.
John Bolton just told ICC to kick rocks (because he doesn't want to get convicted)… the international community can't do it for us… thanks Obama <– piece of shit. What a coward… campaigns as a progressive, governs like a backpedaling moderate, then talks about universal basic income once hes out (after he gets paid out by corporations through speeches).
This is where "vote for the lesser of two evils" or the "Blue no matter who" gets you.
You'd think that if America was a Christian and humane country, it would be working its way to removing sociopaths, sadists and narcissists from positions of power , but the Kavanaugh confirmation demonstrates the opposite is true. The sociopaths are way ahead of decent human beings, and locking down their collective domination ever tighter. Vault-Tec is running America at this point, just in time to launch World War 3.
Obama was a sham and a failure as potus. Weak aloof person
Obama and Merkel created the biggest right-wing revival in history, as a counter-movement to their crazy policies.
It's yin and yang, action and reaction. Simple.
wow the real news went there good for them, the Obama bots who see this will have a melt down haha
If Obama pursued charges on Bush, then the GOP would have been furious and pursued every possible investigation on Obama once they took office. Trump has flirted with these things anyway. This is not to excuse Obama; of course its fucked up that presidents won't investigate past presidents. But Dems won't care enough to put themselves at risk; they are better off, as a center of power, with this 'gentlemen's agreement' to not investigate other centers of power.
"Oops we let white collar criminals get away with it again"
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I was gutted that Obama refused to go after Bush Jr and friends. Just insanely frustrating, specially when our heroes (Assange, Manning, Snowden and such) are forced out of the country or went to prison for being true patriots.
"We should look forward instead looking back" unless you are middle class and poor, in which case we will look at the crimes you done in the pass, and prosecute to the fullest extense of the laws. Obama instead of prosecuting Bush and Chaney for war crime, and the banker that committed fraud, prosecuted Manning for exposing war crime and other whistle blower for revealing things that we had the right to know.
I agree, but one can not be black or white on obama's decision. Some pressure from CIA must be there , but That does not mean Obama would nominate him for supreme court…
Too bad "The prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" by Vince Bugliosi was not discussed or even mentioned.
Given that Henry Kissinger, unindicted perpetrator of crimes against humanity, is widely regarded as a senior statesman, why would we expect any of these psychopaths/sociopaths to get even a slap on the wrist?
"Steal a little and they throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they make you king" — Bob Dylan
Obama had no intention of prosecuting Bush for the exact same war crimes that he intended to commit. And did.
They left out Kavanaugh perjuring himself, which is a federal crime, again and again during the hearings.
The only thing Obama was looking forward to were half a million dollar speaking fees.
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