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Originally Posted by Dvae
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Could you please post some fancy less than flattering graphics on Obama.
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You make the assumption that progressives (left of what you consider liberal) are happy with Obama, when in fact Obama is assailed by the left wing all of the time for being too much of a middle of the road politician.
Guess you missed the recent book by Oliver Stone, or MSNBC's, and even Michael Moore's scathing criticism of some aspects of the Obama Administration (from leftwing sources):
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On Wall Street reform: ?The biggest winner under Obama was Wall Street.?
On health care: ?Obama?s failure to articulate a progressive vision was also apparent in the fight over health reform, which was to have been his signature initiative?Obama?s health care reform effort, marked by the inability to even refute Republican charges of death panels, was so unpopular that it became an albatross around the necks of Democrats in the 2010 election.?
On a troop surge in Afghanistan: ?When it finally came down to decision time, Obama didn?t have the courage or integrity of a post-Cuban Missile Crisis John F. Kennedy. He settled on a 30,000-troop increase, giving the military leaders almost everything they wanted and more than they expected.?
On civil liberties: ?Among the greatest disappointments to his followers was Obama?s refusal to roll back the expanding national security state that so egregiously encroached on American civil liberties.?
On ?imperialism?: ?[He] was not offering a decisive break with over a century of imperial conquest. His was a centrist approach to better managing the American empire rather than advancing a positive role for the United States in a rapidly evolving world.?
On defense spending: ?While cutting defense spending, pulling combat forces out of Iraq and beginning the drawdown in Afghanistan represented a welcome retreat from they hypermilitarism of the Bush-Cheney years, they did not represent the sharp and definitive break with empire that the world needed to see from the United States.?
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If you want to read Michael Moore's entire Op-Ed that appeared a few weeks ago in the New York Times, here is complete text:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/op...erve.html?_r=0
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