Obama, Using Your Dead Mom as a Campaign Prop is Despicable
Inspired by a comment by cbl at firedoglake
hey Barack, that’s you when you wanted to be president, talking about the injustices your dying mom faced as a cancer patient. here’s what you said:
In those last painful months, she was more worried about paying her medical bills than getting well
That’s why so many people believed in you and voted for you. They believed you.
And ya know, it’s shitty to throw civil libertarians under the bus for political expedience, but I get it (in theory). You wanted to convince people who are worried about national security that you’d be relentless about preventing more attacks on Americans, so bring on the warrantless wiretapping.
And you wanted to keep those sane conservatives who’ve turned on Bush but think we should brush all the crimes under the rug, so let’s expand that state secrets crapola. I get it, even if I don’t like it.
And I can, sort of if I stick my head all the way up my asshole, see your rationale with Guantanamo. Not that I agree with it, but I can kinda see the bind you’re in with the turd Bush left you: even innocent people, when tortured enough, will harbor a vendetta against the US and may bite us in the ass. You don’t want to be the guy that sets free the next terrorist to blow up an American.
And while I don’t agree with you AT ALL, I can convince myself that you personally think that fulfilling your promises to gay people, allowing them to serve openly and marry each other, would drag down the party with military voters and homophobes. I think that’s a shitty way to look at it, but I can see how in the world of crass politicking, you’d make that decision.
But dude, using your dead mom as a meaningless campaign prop? THAT IS DESPICABLE. THAT IS THE LOWEST OF THE LOW.
also from cbl
