If you want to set up a straw man like that, I'll be happy to burn it down.
I voted for Obama in 2012, too. It's not because I'm a warmonger. After believing, like Sabrina, that the federal government would become transparent and accountable after eight years of the Bush-Cheney junta, I voted to re-elect the President in spite of being very disappointed in the progress he's made in reversing what ails America.
Yes, I voted for Obama in 2012. I make no secret that I held my nose as I did. It's not my fault or Sabrina's that Obama had reduced himself to the lesser of two evils, but at least he succeeded at being better than Bush. Do you think that's an ambitious standard, Brooklynite? I said before the election that I was voting for Obama because, while the country was still in trouble after the damage done by the Bush junta and it wouldn't survive a Romney presidency; under Obama, America had a chance.
That chance looks very dim right now. Not all of it is Obama's doing. The obstinate reactionary Republican Party has a lot to do with it, too. The Democrats had enough crooked members on the Senate Banking Committee to keep a public option out of the Affordable Care Act. Nevertheless, no one made the President sign the Defense Authorization bill that gave him the power to circumvent due precess for American citizens; no one made the President continue the Bush policy of mass surveillance with a weak argument that his cosmetic changes to the process make it OK; no one made the President order drone strikes; and no one is keeping the President from firing his worthless Attorney General for prosecuting medical marijuana patients more aggressively than crooked Wall Street bankers or pursuing whistleblowers who inform the public of what the public has a right to know anyway more aggressively than Bush junta war criminals. However, Obama ended waterboarding, so at least he's better than the Bush junta.
An America that spies on its citizens and engages in imperial wars for natural resources in the Middle East is not the America I learned about in a high school civics class in 1969. An America that spies on its citizens and engages in imperial wars is not America.
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