Do none of you remember the extremely violent crackdown on Occupy? And that it was coordinated at the national and local levels by the Obama administration? Since when do politicians’ sound bites, good or bad, have much at all to do with actual, real-world policies?
To boot, consider one of the protester examples in the Obama segments. They chant, “No more deportations!” to a president whose administration broke all previous records for immigrant deportations. Recently, ICE raided immigrant homes in January targeting mainly women and children. Many immigrants in the US, like some of those talked about in the article that I just linked, have fled violence in Honduras after the US-backed coup there in 2009. Again, Hillary Clinton, who basically all of the commentators in this thread will vote for when Sanders doesn’t get the nomination, helped support the coup government as Secretary of State.
Obama even pressured the Yemeni government to keep a journalist in jail for reporting on secret bombings carried out by the U.S., supposedly against Al Qaeda, which actually just killed civilians (fourteen women and twenty-one children).
Generally Obama has been a vocal supporter of drone bombings, the victims of which are overwhelmingly women and children. In fact, Obama loves killing civilians so much that he has started calling any military-age males in a strike zone “militants” in order to avoid counting civilian deaths, and most media outlets have enthusiastically followed suit.
Speaking of which, if Obama is so tolerant of dissent, then why has he carried out his infamous “war on whistleblowers,” prosecuting more people under the 1917 Espionage Act than all previous presidents combined?
The list of horrible crap goes on. But for the sake of brevity I’ll stop there.
Really, who gives a shit how polite Obama can be to hecklers and protesters during live speeches when this is what his administration is actually doing? He can smile all he wants, but he is a monster just like Trump.
