[Thread] Obama years, in no particular order ....pic.twitter.com/jCdg0m8liU
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1. 3 days after his inauguration, he launches his first drone strikes.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/23/drone-strike-victim-barack-obama …
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2. Even before he is inaugurated, he has Citibank privately vet his cabinet. https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/32870 …pic.twitter.com/XEiGNcO164
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3. Bailing out Wallstreet but not people whose homes were foreclosed uponhttps://www.salon.com/2009/03/20/reich_3/ …
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4. Expanded the "state secret" doctrinehttps://www.colorlines.com/articles/obamas-unprecedented-use-state-secrets-defend-religious-profiling …
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5. Maintained and continued Bush's rendition policyhttps://www.salon.com/2009/02/09/state_secrets/ …
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6. Escalates the war in Afghanistanhttps://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120991044 …
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7. Didn't pass single-payer even with the following congressional makeuppic.twitter.com/SlSKua8UuI
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8. Legitimized the coup in hondurashttps://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/15/us-role-honduras-coup-and-subsequent-violence …
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9. Lobbied to LOWER the minimum wage in Haiti to 30 cents an hourhttps://www.thenation.com/article/wikileaks-haiti-let-them-live-3-day/ …
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11. Coup in Ukraine (WATCH THE VIDEO WHERE HE ADMITS IT) http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2015/february/02/obama-admits-us-role-in-ukraine-overthrow/ …
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12. Makes Bush's tax cut permanent... ALSO, REMEMBER THE MAKE-UP OF CONGRESS when he did that http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/16/AR2010121606200.html …pic.twitter.com/QfEaBdPUXK
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13. Thought police brutality was "police acting stupidly"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/5902222/Cambridge-police-demand-apology-from-Barack-Obama-over-stupid-comments.html …
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14. Granted immunity to torturershttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/31/obama-justice-department-immunity-bush-cia-torturer …
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16. Ended Habeus Corpus (h/t
@YasminYonis)https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dear-americans-this-law-makes-it-possible-to-arrest_us_57c9b648e4b06c750dd9cd6f …Show this thread -
Excellent addendum to the Bush era tax cutshttps://twitter.com/ramonferrandis/status/943246698859593730 …
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17. Wow... I am speechless (H/t @KrisK75USMC ) https://amp.theguardian.com/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/aug/10/robert-gibbs-crazy-liberal-critics-obama?__twitter_impression=true …
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18. NSA spying.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance …
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19. Unprecedented crackdown on whistle blowershttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/whistleblowers-double-standard-obama-david-petraeus-chelsea-manning …
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20. Holder determined that some banks are "Too Big to Jail"https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/eric-holder-banks-too-big_n_2821741.html …
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21. The really bizarre gun-smuggling scheme...http://www.latimes.com/nation/atf-fast-furious-sg-storygallery.html?page=2 …
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22. Remember the time when Obama signed the Executive Order banning Syrian and Iranian immigrants?https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/23/executive-order-blocking-property-and-suspending-entry-united-states-cer …
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23. Obama repeatedly reauthorized militarizing the policehttp://www.mintpressnews.com/white-house-moves-reauthorize-military-equipment-police/218714/ …
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24. Deporting children to "send a message" to their parents.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration/u-s-says-deportation-of-honduran-children-a-warning-to-illegal-migrants-idUSKBN0FK29N20140715 …
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25. Turning Libya from Africa's most prosperous nation, to the ISIS hellhole it is today.https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/hillary-clinton-libya.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=F4AB919802C9539BCBFA63C9DF7C7DD6&gwt=pay …
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26. Drone strikes in Somaliahttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/03/07/u-s-drone-strike-kills-more-than-150-in-somalia/?utm_term=.fbeafe46df71 …
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27. Obama: The Nobel Peace Prize winner in history, to bomb another Nobel peace prize winner.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-attack-msf/obama-apologizes-for-kunduz-attack-msf-demands-independent-probe-idUSKCN0S10SX20151007 …
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28. Why did he build a drone base in Niger?http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283346/Obama-builds-new-drone-base-West-Africa-combat-spread-Al-Qaeda.html …
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29. Why did we build a drone base in Cameroon?https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-03-01/can-us-new-drone-base-cameroon-help-fight-boko-haram …
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30. Why were we building a drone base in Seychelles?https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/drone-crashes-in-seychelles/2011/12/13/gIQAQ3PsrO_blog.html?utm_term=.99c7e1440ebb …
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31. Why were we building a drone base in Chad?http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/you-might-not-know-where-chad-us-military-has-big-plans-it/ …
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