Top 10 Clues that Obama has betrayed his supporters

10 - Obama has gone back on his word to punish the Bush administration for war crimes.

9 - Obama has appointed former Sec. of Energy, Bill Richardson (from the Clinton Administration), as Sec. of Commerce. Richardson's tenure at the Energy Department was marred by reports of security lapses in nuclear laboratories. During one contentious hearing, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia told him "you would never again receive the support of the Senate of the United States for any office to which you might be appointed." So how is rewarding ineptitude change?

8 - Obama's Vice President elect, Joe Biden, is endorsing a bill that ends net neutrality as we know it and will take away much of our freedom on the Internet, the last safe haven for people of truth and honesty to tell their stories before the dark ages are re-instated.

7 - Obama is considering with Rahm Emanuel (his Chief of Staff) a “Universal Civilian Defense Program” which is a new propaganda and public relations term for the already existing National Guard militia. In other words, he is re-instating the draft. If this sounds familiar, it should. A similar program was proposed in 2007 by former Republican Congressman and former Nixon administration Sec. of Defense, Melvin R. Laird.

6 - Obama is NOT reversing the Patriot Act, the Homeland Security Act, any of the unconstitutional changes in all the Defense Authorization Acts, and the Military Commissions Act which took away our right to Habeas Corpus, one of the MOST IMPORTANT and VITAL pieces of legislation that made this country great!

5 - Obama supported the Detroit bailout - which was completely against the majority’s requests. This should come as no surprise because Obama voted FOR the Financial sector BAILOUT bill. Not much of a "change” from what we've had!

4 - Obama has now completely reversed his position on TAX breaks for the rich and now has stated, after giving it some thought, he will keep this policy he campaigned against which helped him get elected. I guess he CHANGED his mind.

3 - Obama has picked a Republican drug warrior (and recovering alcoholic), Jim Ramstad, to be his "Drug Czar". It looks like the "War on Drugs" will continue without change.

2 - Obama is keeping the current Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates (a Republican), in that position! Gates should feel right at home - with the new Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel who is outspoken in his SUPPORT for the war in Iraq. How is this change?

1 - Obama is slowly going back on his word about getting us out of Iraq (who had NOTHING to do with 9/11) and has publicly said that all options, including nuclear, are on the table with Iran (who also had NOTHING to do with 9/11). Obama continues packing his cabinet with the most pro-war Democrats AND Republicans that he can find.

For many who supported Obama, his level of betrayal has quickly growing - and he's not even in office yet!

As MANY Libertarians had predicted, there may be VERY LITTLE, if any, difference between Obama and Bush. So meet the new boss... same as the old boss.

Comments

[Jake]

Richardson was the presidential choice of the Democratic Freedom Caucus (the Dems version of the RLC) and from what I know is fairly pro-free market. I don't know too much about him or his alleged ineptitude, but perhaps he isn't such a bad choice from a libertarian perspective.

[Mik Robertson]

Richardson was also a favorite of the DFC for appointment to Secretary of State. There is mounting evidence that not only will Obama be no different from McCain, but there will be very little difference from Bush.

[bill]

1.If you're trying to make a point, don't switch between sarcasm, legitimate points, and spelling errors. It's not a good mix.
2.Though I am a libertarian, many of your points don't coincide with our philosophy.
3.You're accusing Obama of doing and not doing certain things while he hasn't even taken office yet.
4.I wouldn't expect our leader to make the decisions everyone wants him to make, thats what a politician does, he needs to make the right decisions.
5.People change their minds. That's how you know they actually care about something, if they actually care enough about it to put more thought into it.
6.You are a libertarian, you should be for the legalization of drugs. So I don't know why you see the fact that the war on drugs has failed, is failing, and will continue to fail as a bad thing.

[walpamure]

Just another example of good cop bad cop..these treacherous beasts in power have handed us a sweet talker while they get on with the business of trashing the world.F^%$k them.

[bitch]

this article bitches so much
it makes me want to hang out with you
we could both bitch together
bitch bitch bitch bitch
now that sounds like lots of fun
rawwwrrr i'm hormonal

then we can go play left 4 dead
then bitch how its the apocolypse!

[nobody]

This article probably has the most retarded comments I've ever read from readers.

[dj41326]

Obama is part of the same elitist oligarchy in power. It is the ole' bait and switch tactic. The Civilian Defense Program was mentioned in one of his campaign speeches and he intends on stealing our tax dollars to fund it and spy on us. http://popblogculture.blogspot.com/

[Way To Judge]

You realize he's not even in office for another month right? I'm all for keeping a watch on our leaders, but man. You're criticizing his ability to lead before he's even leading.

[Mark]

People have been deluded by Mr. Obama. For those of us who ignored the rhetoric in favor of the record, we are not surprised. The continuous chain of corporate rule that began with Reagan, went through Bush, Clinton and Bush II, will be extended again for 8 more years.

For the believers, it will be years before they wake up and get hip to what is happening here.

[Craig]

US Democracy = Choose the puppet on the left, or the puppet on the right.

[Katharine]

Oh give me a break! The man's not even in office yet!

And don't be so naive. Campaign rhetoric and what happens when someone is in office are often very different things.

It's just reality that Obama has got to work with the other side. He's got to be shown to be making some concessions or the Republicans will dig their heals in and refuse to budge.

Perhaps he's overplayed that card but that doesn't mean he's betrayed anyone. For heaven's sake at least see how he works with these guys before condemning the choices.

By the way, "predictions" like the one you make here is going to come true for you no matter what Obama does. You've made up your mind and no evidence to the contrary is going to sway it.

[Liz]

My Boyfriend says they took Obama to the basement of the white house and showed him the Kennedy Assassination from another angle- and now he's "straightened up and flying right"

Please don't let it be so :(

[Doesn't matter]

For all you closest racists out there bashing Obama keep this in mind, when he was elected the intelligent portion of us know it was merely the lesser of two evils. "Ohhh, Obama is so bad." Newsflash, regardless who you voted for nothing was going to change. After all with what Bush has done this is no longer the government we all grew to know. It's been to changed. We might as well stop calling them presidents and call them supreme overlords, that's exactly what they are anymore. It's not just Obama who's so evil.. it the whole group of cock suckers that we keep giving chance after chance to lead us into their pockets. The whole system is corrupt... the world is run by money. If you think I'm wrong open your eyes. How else would all this evil shit keep happening to us. Besides if they have it their way we'll all be dead in just a few years anyone.. they're slowly poisoning us as I type this. Think I'm wrong? Ask yourself this, and do the research, why would our government pass laws requiring fluoride be added to our water when it has absolutely no medical benefit. Ohh a while back they said it was good for you.. but didn't they also say that about smoking?

[bormir]

What a ridiculous blog. That's some serious skewing of the facts you got there. Filed as Irrelevant drivel".

[able baker]

No surprise here. He is just a politician, not the Messiah. I can't believe how many people seem to worship him.

Face the facts, he was elected from the same congress that gave us war, Gitmo, spying and bailouts.

[Joe]

Where are citations for these claims? I'm not attempting to support or refute anything said here but if you're attempting to make a convincing argument than each of these claims should have supporting evidence.
I agree that President Elect Obama does not see to be the ferocious advocate for change that he portrayed himself as during the campaign, however it is important to attack his positions with claims that have a strong foundation and healthy supply of supporting evidence.

For example if Mr Obama is changing his position on taxes for the rich than can you provide articles over time showing this shift. If he has reneged on promises about the drug war it should be easy to find articles from the campaign that show his support for reductions in funding for War on Drugs.
Finally, the statement about Iraq has a link to Libertarian Party's homepage. If you were referring to the lead article "Libertarians Accuse Obama of 'Hawkish' Foreign Policy," then you should link to that article. Furthermore, that article is about proposed troop increases in Afghanistan, not Iraq, and these troops would seemingly be redeployed from Iraq given the proposed upcoming troop reductions.
As a proud libertarian it is important that we hold ourselves, and our public statements to the highest standards because we are a minority party and to make a difference on the national stage it is important that we surpass the big fish on every measure so that people will view us with the respect that they grant the Elephants and Donkeys, well maybe a little bit more than them.

[Crux]

A politician lied, big surprise there. No one who wants the job should actually get it.

[Rebecca]

Is it really a surprise to ANYONE here that a President is never what he says he will be? I am 16, and I understand this. Some of you are in your upper 30's and still cannot grasp this concept.

They have extreme ideals during elections that they tell themselves they will follow through with. They tell themselves they are the glimmer of hope America needs, and they will change the world for the better. After the stress of running a global superpower sets in, one has to let go of more and more of those ideals to stay functional and sane in a world drained of morality.

Please cease to over-analyze and realize this.