Election 2008

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Candidate Barack Obama, February 27 2008, Columbus Ohio: We will lead by having the highest standards, by setting an example of human rights and civil rights, due process and rule of law, which is why I will close Guantanamo. I …

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Obama Is Worse Than Bush On Rule Of Law, Says Rocky Anderson

jclifford 12/22/2011

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Rocky Anderson reminds me that Obama’s troubling disregard for America’s constitutional rights was made quite clear during the 2008 presidential election. We spent a great deal of time here at Irregular Times during the summer and autumn of 2008 discussing Barack Obama’s support for the terrible FISA Amendments Act – a law that gave immunity to telecommunications corporations for breaking federal law by providing government spies with information about millions of Americans’ private communications data.

Posted in Activism, Barack Obama, Democrats, Election 2008, Election 2012, George W. Bush, Liberty, Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, bush, fisa amendments act, human rights, rocky anderson | 2 Comments

Bill McKibben On Barack Obama, Then And Now

The Green Man 10/26/2011

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Environmentalist Bill McKibben was a big supporter of Barack Obama in 2008. Now, after years of waiting for President Obama to show any strong environmental leadership, McKibben has something else to say.

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Obama States: Futon Sale. McCain States: Toddler Cowboy Boots

Jim Cook 6/21/2011

Top 20 Google Searches Most Concentrated in States won by Barack Obama in 2008 1. hip hop has saved my life lyrics 2. winter break 3. wedding name cards 4. futon sale 5. granada airport 6. khaled hosseini 7. miglia …

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First Stop, Chinatown. Next Stop, the White House!!!

Jim Cook 5/17/2011

In 2008, Christopher Popham Smith ran for President of the United States under the auspices of his self-declared One America Party, and is promoting himself again to help “conservatives gain ground”, “to stop the liberals, progressives, socialists, communists”, and to …

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No Mistake: Under Obama, U.S. Builds a new Indefinite Detention System

Jim Cook 4/18/2011

With the whole keeping-Guantanamo-around thing, it’s possible to cut President Barack Obama some slack. Sure, he explicitly promised to close Guantanamo when he was running for President back in 2008. But maybe his policy has been a big misunderstanding. It’s …

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Four Years Ago, Now

Jim Cook 4/9/2011

Four years ago, the corporation with a plan to run its own candidate for president called Unity08 refused to remove “delegates” from its list after they became disgusted with it. This week, the corporation with a plan to run its …

Posted in Alternative Parties, Americans Elect, Barack Obama, Economy, Election 2008, Election 2012, Homeland Insecurity, Legislation, Politics, unity08, War and Peace | Tagged 2007, 2011, americans elect, Barack Obama, detention, iraq, military commissions, shareholders, torture, unity08 | 1 Comment

#30 Way to Exasperate a Liberal: Ride Votes from Liberals into Trickle-Down Town

Jim Cook 2/5/2011

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George H. W. Bush ridiculed Ronald Reagan’s tax cut plan as “Voodoo Economics” in 1980… and he was right. The theory of Trickle-Down Economics — in which tax cuts for the rich leads to prosperity for everyone after the rich …

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Democrats and Republicans Slouching Toward Patriot Act Reauthorization

Jim Cook 1/21/2011

Through the entire second term of George W. Bush’s administration, Democrats in Congress sent out solicitations for campaign contributions accompanied by scathing indictments of the USA Patriot Act and its unconstitutional provisions for warrantless surveillance, gag orders on librarians, sneak …

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#16 Way to Exasperate a Liberal: Keep Guantanamo Open

Jim Cook 1/21/2011

Barack Obama made a case against indefinite detention at Guantanamo Bay in a campaign promise from 2008: Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. Guantanamo has become a recruiting tool for our enemies. The legal framework behind Guantanamo has failed completely, …

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#15 Way to Exasperate a Liberal: Restart Military Commissions

Jim Cook 1/21/2011

Article III Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution guarantees a jury trial for all crimes except those of impeachment, even when the crimes have taken place outside the United States. The 6th Amendment to the same U.S. Constitution guarantees a …

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Take a Tally: has President Obama kept or tried to keep all his Campaign Promises?

Jim Cook 12/10/2010

A rather testy President Barack Obama insists he wants you to evaluate him. The President has told you what you’re going to find: Take a tally. Look at what I promised during the campaign. There’s not a single thing that …

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Coda to the Bill Richardson for President “Grassroots” PR Machine

Jim Cook 9/24/2010

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Back in 2007, when J. Clifford mused that a “grassroots” Zanby group expressing fanboy love for presidential candidate Bill Richardson seemed like the PR move of a campaign insider or someone who was angling to be hired for the campaign, …

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Was The Guard All That Obama Should Have Changed?

jclifford 9/23/2010

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Obama says it was a change of the guard, but that’s not the change I was hoping for. I wanted a change in what was being guarded.

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Republicans Fight For Gay Rights Against Democrats

Peregrin Wood 9/10/2010

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For the Democrats, the gutlessness of Obama and his allies in Congress is more damaging than Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky.

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Falling Down on the PCLOB: Barack Obama in Violation of Federal Law 597 Days and Counting

Jim Cook 9/9/2010