Obama's Bush-like rhetoric regarding Iraq is particularly disturbing. You would think Dick Cheney is writing the president's speeches again when you hear Obama mocking Americans by saying the US is just sending military "advisers" to Iraq to stop ISIS because they are a threat to national security. He even has the nerve to package US airstrikes as a humanitarian effort. What's next, having an orgy to encourage celibacy? Or having a keg party to promote sobriety?
It's bad enough that Obama's followers give him a pass on his hyper-violent foreign policy and the corresponding deceit, but for them to sit back and remain silent as Obama and the US are on the same side as ISIS in Syria and now are bombing them in Iraq is sickening. But the Democratic Party knows their constituency will just covers their eyes and ears. They know their voters prefer to be willfully ignorant.
And to top it off, the Obama administration is supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine. Can you imagine what Democrats would be saying if a Republican president supported neo-Nazis? But again, their guy does it and they either deny it or look the other way.
St. Pete for Peace knew Obama was not a person of peace after reading his words in 2002 in which he stated, "I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war." Can you imagine if he replaced the word "war" with "child abuse" or "sexual assaults"? Are child abuse and sexual assault worse than war? Of course not, since all wars include child abuse and sexual assault, as was stated earlier.
For years we've heard Democrats say they "can't risk having a Republican in office" for fear of what that might mean for domestic issues. We believe it's time for people in this country to look past their own noses for a minute and to consider what the party they voted for is doing to other people around the world.
And to those people who claim that John McCain or Mitt Romney would have bombed even more countries than Obama has bombed, well, Obama has already bombed two more countries than Bush bombed, so that claim is baseless.
DONN MARTEN: So, is it just Obama's foreign policy that makes you believe he and the Democrats are at least as bad as Republicans?
CHRIS ERNESTO: Definitely not. The Obama Fact Sheet on the St. Pete for Peace website maps it all out. It includes news reports from the past six years detailing things Obama has done. Here are some of the lowlights.
Obama has a "secret kill list" that he discusses on "Terror Tuesdays", and he has assassinated at least 4 US citizens without trial.
Obama fully defends the NSA spying program and mandated the Insider Threat Program, which orders federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues.
He has waged a war on whistleblowers like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden.
He signed the Monsanto Protection Act into law, giving Monsanto complete legal protection as they poison our food and crush family businesses.
He has deported a record-2 million immigrants.
He did a TV commercial for "clean coal", he touted nuclear power even after the Fukishima disaster, and said that offshore oil drilling is safe even after the Gulf oil spill.
He is pushing the TPP, which is essentially NAFTA on steroids.
He sold $30 billion worth of weapons to the Saudi Arabian dictatorship.
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