Reply #16: you forgot 3 deal breakers: covering up for war criminals, wiretapping US citizens w/out warrant, [View All]

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and continuing to hold Guantanamo detainees without charging them with anything--not only just holding them, but actively resisting their efforts to sue for habeas corpus. And this is supposed to be a "constitutional scholar" who PROMISED, literally on Day 1, that "we are a country of laws" and that habeas corpus would be reinstated stat.

He is a liar on these issues. Until they are resolved, how can I just sing kumbaya and pretend everything is aok in lalaland? as long as one person is wasting away in a prison without being charged, as long as war crimes are on American's hands with no one held accountable, you and me and none of us are truly free and without shame. These crimes are a cancer that destroy our humanity and make us look like pigs in the eyes of the world.

In addition, he dismissed legalization of marijuan at that Town Hall meeting as though it was a joke and not worthy even of talking about. That to me was very very stupid and exposed who he really cares about. A very large portion of his base, those who busted their butts to get him elected, are a new generation who smoke pot, or don't care if anybody else does. All of us see the stupidity of keeping it illegal, except, apparently, him. His dumbass attitude dismisses We The People as not important, just future prisoners for the victimless crime of smoking pot and he couldn't give a shit about that, or about the fact that Mexican drug cartels and drug gang violence would evaporate, states would collect billions in taxes and licensing fees, overcrowded prisons would empty--but our privatized security and prison systems would not make any profit from that, now, would they?

And what about his dismissal of single-payer, universal health care because it "would raise taxes"?
Well! shit, then! We couldn't have the poor widdle billionaires contributing to the public good, now could we? How absurd, to think that the health of the vast majority of the country is more important than another 1% in taxes for the billionaires. Can't afford health insurance? TOUGH! die already then!

These are the issues that make it impossible for me to fully support him. I watch the economic thing from afar and know, because of these other issues, that he doesn't really care about We The People. There's other interests he's kowtowing to, behind the scenes. He's "got people," and they ain't us.