why try and save people when we could be killing dark skinned people somewhere else?
This would be accurate if a donkey were in the tank as well. The dems and reps have exactly the same foreign policy.
List of Reasons to Vote Against Obama
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Why Obama has no swag
List of Reasons to Vote Against Obama
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THINGS THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW
1. Drone strikes on innocent civilians
a. Afghanistan
b. Iraq
c. Pakistan
d. Somalia
e. Libya
f. Yemen
g. Bush: 52, Obama: 260
h. Almost 1000 civilians killed, 175 children
2. Inflating college tuition
a. Excessive Pell grants and scholarship increases take revenue from schools which forces them to increase tuition for all students
b. More Pell grant and scholarship money is needed to cover inflated tuition
c. Ultimately, the costs and benefits cancel each other out for students accepting grants, raising tuition costs for those that don’t and irresponsible spending of taxpayer money
3. Iran
a. Crippling sanctions, similar to Romney’s plan
b. Trade sanctions
c. Nuclear sanctions
d. Not opposed to war with Iran
e. Provocative
4. National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
a. Lied about vetoing the bill
b. Allows for the indefinite detainment of American and non-American citizens without due process or being charged with a crime during wartime and peacetime, and not in a war zone by our military
c. Insisted on this clause
d. Bypasses the 1st, 4th, 6th, 7th, and 8th amendments
5. Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
a. International internet censorship bill
b. Publicly opposed similar bills
c. Signed ACTA in secret
d. Similar behavior with CISPA
6. Guantanamo Bay
a. Publicly announced closing, yet GB remains open.
b. NDAA makes closing of GB virtually impossible.
7. Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks
a. Arrested PFC Bradley Manning without charging him with a crime
b. Held in captivity 18 months before being charged with a crime
c. Declared by Obama on a talk show as guilty before his first hearing
d. Tortured while in captivity
e. Ridiculed for homosexuality by guards
f. Forced to walk the military base naked every morning
g. Sleep-deprived
h. Forced to sleep naked and without pillows
i. Charged with leaking a video to an international whistleblower website of ruthless American soldiers conscientiously murdering innocent citizens in Iraq and outright lying to higher command
8. Assassination of American citizens w/o due process
a. Ordered assassination by drone strike on Anwar Al-Awlaki, American citizen, suspected of promoting terrorism while in Yemen
b. Also ordered similar assassination on his 16-year-old son, also American citizen
9. Re-authorized the Patriot Act
a. Allows for wire-tapping of phones
b. Reading of emails
c. Invasive TSA pat-downs and scans
d. Bypasses American citizens’ right to privacy
e. Repeals the 4th and 9th amendments
10. Supports nation-building
a. Supports demolishing foreign sovereign governments and replacing them with fixed puppet states
b. Spent trillions of tax dollars doing this
11. Raised national debt more than any other president
a. During Bush, nat. debt raised $4.899T
b. During Obama, raised $4.939T
12. Illegal Wars
a. Started unconstitutional war with Libya
b. Continued unconstitutional war with Iraq
c. Continued unconstitutional war with Afghanistan
d. Violated the separation of powers by means of unilateral executive decisions more often than Bush/Cheney
13. Healthcare Reform
a. Healthcare mandate forces all Americans to buy expensive government healthcare
b. Citizens pay double for this healthcare—paid with tax money, then bought
c. Destroys competition, which raises prices
d. Modeled after Hitler’s T-4 policy, constituted as a crime against humanity under Nuremberg Principles
e. Gives government control of 1/6th of the US economy
14. Appointment of Czars
a. Appoints officials to bypass congressional oversight
b. DREAM Act, see (2)
15. Legalized torture
a. Referred to as “advanced interrogation techniques”
b. Directed justice department to cover up hundreds of cases of abuse, torture and even deaths under Bush’s administration
c. As evident by (4), (6), (7)
16. Authorized shutdown of many medical marijuana dispensaries
a. Violates 10th amendment.
17. Not an LGBT ally
a. Does not support same-sex marriage, never has
18. Engaged in actions to destroy the sovereignty of the United States
a. Gave the International Monetary Fund more power over the US economy
19. Keynesian economics
a. Supports spending borrowed money
b. Expects us to spend our way out of a recession
20. Personal use of taxpayer money
a. Michelle Obama used $375,000 to take one of many vacations in 2010
21. Trans-Pacific Partnership
a. Currently being negotiated
b. Will effectively ban ‘Buy American’ policies
c. Ruin our exports
d. Cripple our GDP
22. HR 347
a. Criminalizes protest in the presence of Secret Service, the President, or any government building
b. Bypasses and criminalizes 1st amendment
Obama<3IIIIID
Political activists on Tumblr and Facebook criticizing Obama for not closing Gitmo and prolonging our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc. have a point because the office of President and Commander-in-Chief is obviously only nuanced to the point where a college undergrad can fully grasp.
Am I missing the nuance that the only benefactors from this war are the contractors and arms manufacturers? Or the part about how Obama, as Commander-in-Chief, is in full control of the military? His word could end these atrocities today.
White Rich Dude
Why should any of us pay taxes to the federal government? Or if we have to, wouldn’t it be the most fair option to tax everybody at the same rate? As is, we are telling the public that the harder they work, the bigger cut Uncle Sam gets.
We also participate in favoritism, a key catalyst for the American Revolution, by taxing different industries at different rates. The government should not be trusted to pick the winners in our industrial or financial sectors. The best way to pick winners is to vote with our dollars. If we are truly free to forge our own path, then we should all be expected to pay the same percentage of our income to the federal government.
America faces a host of issues today unimaginable over 200 years ago, issues that, as a constitutional law professor would recognize, the constitution does not even begin to address. America should therefore not base its every decision within the limits of an 18th-century document written by and for a society of white male landowners. A good cartoon.
You all seem to miss the point of this cartoon. It is not a riff on the constitution as being outdated, but Obama (and every modern president) of advancing UNCONSTITUTIONAL platforms.
The United States of America is the greatest experiment on individual freedoms in human history. Is the constitution perfect? No, that is why it is constitutional to amend it. Every time we allow government to take over a part of our lives it only destroys freedom of choice and empowers the corporations that are handed their new monopolies.
We don’t need the government to provide healthcare. We don’t need the government to pick winners in industry by bailing them out of there woes or subsidizing what they do. We don’t need the government to tell us how to treat gays, women, blacks, or anybody. We should be free to do whatever we please as long as it doesn’t impose on anyone else’s rights. You do not have the right to not be offended. You do not have a right to a free education. You do not have a right to free healthcare.
Besides, schooling and medicine cost less and was of a higher quality before government took them over.
