Until Barack Obama, George W. Bush was arguably the worst president in the history of our country. But that may be changing at this very moment.
Barack Obama came into his presidency as probably the most optimistically anticipated president ever. I don't think any of us anticipated just how badly we could do as a country with Obama as president. Especially given the fact that Obama had a built in excuse if he had difficulty in office for a least his first year there. That built in excuse? George W. Bush. There is no debating how bad Bush did in the lead. But for as bad as he did he set up a very clear picture of what the next president should or shouldn't do to be a good president to America.
One of the first things that should have been addressed is the American people. America is a country. Americans are what make America. The Bush administration largely ignored the American people in doing what it felt America the country needed. If America were a person, it would be a very ill person. A lot of our illness is probably treatable but some of it has been deliberately ignored too long and we are stuck with consequence instead of cure in those cases.
Obama had a chance right from the start to make his mark on history in a positive way. He could have undone much of the Patriot Act and gave the people who were stupid enough not to at the very least raise the questions of legality and take the time to understand what the Patriot Act does to the rights of Americans some of their rights back. Doing away with the Department of Homeland security might be a good idea as well. Consolidating various government entities into the Dept. of Homeland Security hasn't proved any better than before. In fact some of the rules now have become outrageous because of the Homeland Security crap. Also, "Homeland Security" sounds (and is) Nazi or at least Fascist.
Foreign policy for the Middle East should have been seriously scrutinized and amended as well. Our ridiculous support of the terrorist regime of Israel should have at least been suspended. That might even bring about serious talks between Israel and the Arabs.
The Iraq debacle, whose cornerstone was the Bush Sr. vendetta against Saddam Hussein should have been immediately halted. Afghanistan should also have been halted. Alleging that al Qaeda members trained in a country is no reason to attack the country. Especially since the evidence of the real terrorists NOT being the accused al Qaeda people. The former School of the Americas is a training ground that our government trains right wing death squads for Latin America. There is no difference in the reasoning that allowing someone to train in your country is worse than financing and training state sponsored terrorists. Our constant meddling with the governments of other countries leadership and politics is every bit the terrorism as bombing something is.
From the very outset of Obama's reign in the White House Americans should have expected something very wrong. First off, bailing out Wall St. Unbelievably, when Joe "the dickhead" Sixpack hears the words welfare and Americans in the same sentence he hits the fucking ceiling. If a cent of taxpayer money goes to another American who is down on their luck and might need help to pay their rent (and cut their eating for the month in half by paying their rent), your average tax payer loses their mind. When Obama gave the super rich of Wall St. billions of dollars in welfare, without asking 1% of the questions asked of the poor for mere hundreds of dollars a month, were was Joe Sixpack's outrage? When tax dollars fund illegal military operations in foreign countries and super weapons there is also no outrage on the behalf of Joe Sixpack.
Other than the bailout, the appointment of some of his cabinet. Hillary. For anything. Given her "wouldn't hesitate to nuke Iran in defense of Israel" speech during her run at the presidency, it's a given she cannot be used for diplomacy in the Middle East.
Keeping Bush staffers Ben Bernanke and Robert Gates. Ben Bernanke is just the most recent in a long line of thieves who happen to be Zionist Euro-jews that play with our money.
Gates who it seems has been around longer than black pepper, never met a war he didn't like. The way that our current war is going in Afghanistan is a good barometer of what kind of guy Gates is. Anyone that can be rewarded with kudos for doing a good job that involves the deaths of the most horrible variety for innocent people including the non-combatant men, the old, the young and very young, and women. The main reason we don't criticize Israel and the horrible things it does every hour of every day is because we're quite like them. We give Israel what amounts to over $30 million a day not including what we give them to use for their military!
The recent coup in Honduras is something else we can attribute to the current government. Our unofficial foreign policy is to destroy any government that is not US friendly or "socialist" even if it is a country that is enjoying success finally after years of struggle. Afghanistan is a prime example of that. In the late 70s Afghanistan was led by a socialist. Their country under the socialist government was able to finally reach the 20th century. President Carter and his maddog National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezkinski couldn't stand the fact that a socialist government was being successful at changing a backward country into a more modern state. This brought about funding the forerunners of al Qaeda, the Taliban, etc. The Mujahadeen, or as our media called them "Afghan Freedom Fighters", had Osama Bin Laden as one of their ranks. Osama was actually in good standing with our govern (see pic with Brzezinski). The socialist government of Afghanistan called for the help of the USSR, which further enraged the Carter administration which replied in kind with more aid. It just so happens that Brzezinski is one of the main people that helped Obama become president. And here were are back in Afghanistan fighting what our government helped to create.
I wonder just how the victims of Katrina feel about all the money that Obama has spent without them being beneficiaries. Here's a partial list of some of Obama's
stimulus flurry .
Yes, the neglect of the region and lives devastated by Katrina should be considered criminal. Personally I felt Obama's very first move in office should have been not just more funding for the Katrina ravished people and area but a Jobcorps or Peacecorps created just for the rebuilding of the area.
A few more things Obama might have gotten done: really closing Guantanmo, ending mandatory sentencing for dope cases, at the very least acknowledging the fact that yes, illegal immigrants do hurt America-which I'll explain in a minute, giving boxing great Jack Johnson a pardon for his conviction of violating the Mann Act ( interstate transport of females for "immoral purposes", in Johnson's case just taking a White woman that he had a relationship to another state).
The illegal alien problem is a simple one. We have more than 20 million illegal aliens here in the US now, probably closer to 30 million. That is an entire nation within our nation. The majority of these aliens are from Latin America, especially Mexico. With jobs disappearing at record rates, the jobs that are held by illegals become even more of a sensitive issue. Every illegal with a job is cheating an American out of a job. The bullshit of "they only work the shit jobs that Americans won't" is just that, bullshit. Not only do they cheat Americans out of work by occupying a job here but they are some of the worst unfair hiring violators because of their nepotism. Of the possible hundreds of Mexican and or Latino restaurants in San Francisco, only one, one, has any employees that aren't Latino. Puerto Alegre in the Mission district is the only one of all those restaurants that hire people of all ethnicities. The same goes for Latino owned groceries. I've never once heard of so much as a complaint about the Latino only hiring practiced by Latino business in San Francisco.
Because of what it takes to become the president of the US (basically the blessing of the super rich, the neo-cons, and the Zionists, often the three being really just one), Obama enjoys the benefits of a highly biased media and propaganda experts that are second to none. So just look at what the media hasn't cleaned up yet and something that he sees as a success: the stimulus. So far the stimulus is not working and I really don't think it is supposed to work. What could be simpler than to give out money without thinking about it? Cash for clunkers. This one is simple. Or is it? Do the math and make your own determination. Obama spent $3 billion to make back (save) $250 million in gas. His absence of concern for the current movement of the H1N1 virus should alarm us as well.
