Is there anything that isn't Obama's fault?
The right-wingers must think their groupies...I mean disciples...I mean followers are really stupid.
Or the right-wingers are really stupid to begin with.
Or both. 
Wayne Allyn Root: Barack Obama 'Brought Back' Racism To America
Submitted by Miranda Blue on Wednesday, 8/20/2014 2:21 pm
Conservative writer Wayne Allyn Root joined Steve Deace yesterday to talk about the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, which Root concluded are evidence that President Obama “didn’t come in to help us end the specter of racism, he brought it back.” “It’s like we’re reliving the 1960s with Barack Obama,” he said. Root claimed that police in Ferguson were intentionally letting looting take place in a “racist overreaction by a police department that is scared of being called racist.”
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wayne-allyn-root-barack-obama-brought-back-racism-america#sthash.GTW6ylI4.dpuf
Wayne Allyn Root: Obama Using Ferguson To Start A Race War, Declare Martial Law
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Wednesday, 8/20/2014 10:30 am
Conservative pundit Wayne Allyn Root writes in a WorldNetDaily column today that President Obama waited to speak out out on the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri, because he is trying to start a race war and distract voters from issues like Obamacare and immigration.
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wayne-allyn-root-obama-using-ferguson-start-race-war-declare-martial-law#sthash.ZKwLVE9B.dpuf
(Root himself is a total kook.)
http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2014/06/1083-wayne-allyn-root.html
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Pretty sure it's the cat's fault for laying in the middle of the floor, but could be my fault for one too many IPAs after dinner. As far as I know, PBO was not in my house last night, so I'm reasonably sure he's in the clear on this incident. 
But he keeps my feet warm on cold winter nights and he claims to have some incriminating photos hidden somewhere so I have to keep him around.
Attempts to make this partisan on either side only divert from what we need to be doing to end it.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025416709
Militarization of our police departments is a *bipartisan* effort of corporatists in both parties, right along with mass surveillance, the assaults on journalism, and the persecution of whistleblowers. The programs and legislation that are turning our police departments into paramilitary forces come through Homeland Security and the Pentagon, and are being used to suppress and intimidate dissent, exploit communities, and fill lucrative private prisons with slave labor as the nation is corporatized and Americans are made into a nation of low-paid wage slaves.
Both parties are complicit in this outrage. See the links below. Real change requires pushback against corporate politicians who are enabling this militarization, and that includes both corporate Democrats and Republicans.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025390424
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025413841
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025404667
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025416747
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/aclu-police-militarization-swat_n_2813334.html
It's almost certain that if the police agencies cooperate, the ACLU will find that the militarization trend has accelerated since Kraska's studies more than a decade ago. All of the policies, incentives and funding mechanisms that were driving the trend then are still in effect now. And most of them have grown in size and scope.
The George W. Bush administration actually began scaling down the Byrne and COPS programs in the early 2000s, part of a general strategy of leaving law enforcement to states and localities. But the Obama administration has since resurrected both programs. The Byrne program got a $2 billion surge in funding as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, by far the largest budget in the program's 25-year history. Obama also gave the COPS program $1.55 billion that same year, a 250 percent increase over its 2008 budget, and again the largest budget in the program's history. Vice President Joe Biden had championed both programs during his time in the Senate.
The Pentagon's 1033 program has also exploded under Obama. In the program's monthly newsletter (Motto: "From Warfighter to Crimefighter", its director announced in October 2011 that his office had given away a record $500 million in military gear in fiscal year 2011, which he noted, "passes the previous mark by several hundred million dollars." He added, "I believe we can exceed that in FY 12.”
Then there are the Department of Homeland Security's anti-terrorism grants. The Center for Investigative Reporting found in a 2011 investigation that since 2001, DHS has given out more than $34 billion in grants to police departments across the country, many of which have been used to purchase military-grade guns, tanks, armor, and armored personnel carriers. The grants have gone to such unlikely terrorism targets as Fargo, N.D.; Canyon County, Idaho; and Tuscaloosa, Ala.
https://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/war-comes-home-excessive-militarization-american-police-report
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025412909
