Considering my concerns about the Bush theocracy, I've been trying to look at the evidence one should have been concerned about Bush vs the evidence one should be concerned about Obama.
I would appreciate concrete actions either President has taken, not attacks on perceived philosophies.
Bush, lied or willfully misjudged the WMD threat in Iraq and led us into a very bad war. The claims Bush was just following the evidence given to him is a very unskeptical conclusion.
Ignored habeas corpus and started an entire jail system outside the country and outside the court system.
Ignored FISA laws and initiated a massive data mining campaign against American citizens. (Unfortunately Obama has continued the program, and I'm not pleased with pursuing prosecution of the Iraq video leaker. But I've not seen the full blown assault on administration leaks by tapping the phones of reporters trying to make it impossible for his own people to reveal their dissent. But a Tu Quoque argument would be hypocritical if right wingers supported Bush doing the very same thing.)
Used fake news leaks to the press to attack Ambassador Wilson's dissent of the claim of Iraq WMDs and ended up outing Wilson's wife as a CIA agent.
Replaced hundreds of career lawyers in the 'supposed to be non-partisan' Dept of Justice with religious and political ideologues. This even included firing 8 Republican appointed lawyers who refused to pursue politically motivated cases against key Democrats in a number of states.
Blocked legislative actions such as regulatory laws legitimately passed by Congress by refusing to fund and refusing to fill thousands of vacancies in the regulatory agencies, thus rendering them ineffective.
Pushed faith based initiatives in every single government department he had authority over, including the military, then used the offer of faith based initiative funding in the millions to gain political support from at least one powerful Evangelical church.
We could go round and round on the semantics of how I've portrayed these actions. But the actions, clearly occurred.
So tell me specifically which actions Obama has taken that threaten the separation of powers, the rights of US citizens, or anything else that makes up the fabric of our country or the Constitution. Feel free to describe said actions exactly as you feel they should be described. I don't understand the barrage of lies about socialism and death panels and would like to at least know what real things the right wing believes they are specifically at risk from. But don't include the outright lies like the claim reimbursement to health care providers for living wills has jack to do with death panels.
