“They are willing to use their own air force against people in their country. They are willing to take to take orders from the US government and attack any “militant hideouts” that the US government might want hit if the US government will only stop violating their sovereignty routinely through drone strikes. Extrajudicially, they are willing to assassinate individuals who may be Pakistani citizens.”

Yes, exactly; so the Pakistani government is NOT the ally of it’s people, and should not be grouped with them as if they are representative. This is a corrupt regime that murders it’s own people at the behest of foreign governments. This quote really invites futility–why does it matter if the US stops making drone attacks if the Pakistani government makes them instead? I guess if you honestly beleive that the ‘war on terror’ is legitamate and the innocent Pakistani government deserves no backlash then sure, murder village peasents with planes because they were upset you left them in poverty.

Terrorists already do use drones; the US military is a terrorist organization, so is the IDF. They use drones to murder civilians, the Obama white house even uses them to murder US citizens abroad. Be afraid of reality.

I’m sure that right wing, establishment women like Megan carpenter do support Obama because of his weak, lukewarm support (albeit littered with betrayals) on subjects like abortion and gay marriage. It gives identity politics a really bad name to so blatantly make the point that you’re choosing someone who gives hypocritical lipservice to topics like race while murdering children in seven countries. We need a left movement that truly combines these issues, and not in a token, ‘obama’ way either. Ending the wars and closing down the occupations and foreign military bases, withholding support from apartheid Israel and slashing the military budget would do so much good in the world, and the president has to power to do it, directly. I’d much rather have ron pail as president.

Good chart. A Romney administration will be pretty much identical to Obama’s continuation of Bush policies with some worse stuff and hypocricy thrown in. Don’t listen to disingenous shit-eating democrats who are blind to everything outside of their party loyalty. Obama is a far-right war criminal, corporatist loser.

“President Obama could challenge him on reproductive rights, government regulation, marriage equality, health care, taxes and the role of the federal government in providing welfare to citizens.”

Obama is in the right wing on all of those issues; someone like Cynthia Mckinney or Ralph Nader could come out and challenge him from a perspective of single-payer healthcare, progressive taxation, housing for all, full employment, etc. They would blow him out of the water.

RP is the lesser evil between him and Obama. Obama gives a false, empty, and utterly meaningless kind of support to gay rights, reproductive health, and race issues while practicing radical capitalism and massively expanding the war on terror.

Obama is against gay marriage due to his christian fundamentalism, and is extremely against trans people and, for instance, doing anything about the millions of homeless, exploited LGBT youth living on the streets; so as a gay person, I really don’t support the scumbag. Furthermore, he is also just fine with institutional racism–with letting black people starve in the ghetto and rot in jails in highly disproportionate amounts. Obama and the democrats are attacking social security and medicare, not just the republicans.

It would be great if RP won the republican nomination, then I would absolutely support him over Obama, though not over the Justice or green party candidate. We always have alternatives.

“The chain of command” is a perfect to denote the rigid, violent authoritarian hierarchy of the military–how dare a mere slave try to expose their institutionalized, arrogant criminality. The military should not have their own legal system, let alone one that allows them to murder recruits or lock them up for life.

The guardian censored cables to protect corporations, such as BP and reflect the political interests of their columnists. The newspaper openly participated in attacking Wikileaks and Assange, they violated their agreement by sending the files to the new york times/fbi, they framed the files to be seen as evidence that Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon, and refused to publish cables concerning Israel. It was not merely a ‘conflict’ and just because they are a mainstream liberal institution doesn’t mean they should be protected from criticism.

What chumps Obama’s fans are; ‘Yes We Can’ what? Enable Obama to murder more children through his drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen? Support the democrats as they work to axe social security and medicare?

Deluded right wing democrats like EJ Dionne think the Occupy movement is responsible for Warren’s (and other democrats soliciting big money for their campaigns) electoral success, when it most certainly is not. If politicians can’t convince the electorate, that is their fault;
warmongering, corporatist democrats need to stop blaming voters for their failure and look in the fucking mirror.

I also have to say, I don’t care about 1968 or the 25th anniversary of this or that failed action. I think the Occupy movement has to do something new.