The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140523   Message #3232349
Posted By: Stringsinger
01-Oct-11 - 06:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: I voted for Obama, but...
Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Obama, but...
The problem with Obama now is that he has taken the prerogative of killing American citizens without due process (habeas corpus) which violates the Constitution, violated by a Constitutional scholar. This is an extremely bad precedent for the Executive Branch of our government.

I never said however that Obama was voted in because he was Black. That mischaracterizes what I said. It was a contributing factor, not the only one.
Obama had the skills to govern. He has made some wrong choices.

A vote for Ron Paul is a vote for Libertarian principles which are bound to fail because they don't really address the needs of the American public. They protect the wealthy, which is what Paul would do, at the expense of stealing from the public (tax cuts). In destroying government and suggesting that corporations are more capable of incorruptibility is truly laughable, they are the most corrupt element of what's left of government today. They own it. Ron Paul would destroy the public sector and establish an anarchic non-governmental state whereby the only governing body that he would end up supporting would be the US military, this, in spite of his protestations, legitimately claimed, against these meaningless wars. Why the military? It is the only authoritative governing body left outside of the shambles of democracy. The Egyptians made this mistake, they pay for it by being confronted by their military which squelches their democracy.

To change the economic system in the US, so-called "free trade" must be abolished in order to reign in the transnational corporations that are no longer in America's best interest. Tariffs must be reintroduce to protect unions and the American worker in conjunction with rebuilding American industry.