Fall Of The Republic: The Presidency Of Barack H, Obama Page #10

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"Presidents are selected, they are not elected."

Obama pledged that he would end NAFTA and GAT

and has since fought to expand both of them.

Obama promised that he would have

the most transparent administration ever,

and he is already more secretive than

Bush and Cheney ever were,

even making it a secret who visits the White House.

I can make a firm pledge.

If your family earns less than 250,000 dollars a year...

If you make less than a quarter million dollars a year...

If you are a family making two...

less than 250,000 dollars a year...

You will not see your taxes increased a single dime.

You will not see your taxes go up.

You will not see your taxes increase one single dime.

...not your capital gains tax, not your payroll tax,

not your income tax, no tax!

...not your income tax, not your payroll tax,

not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

...not your payroll tax, not your capital gains tax,

not your income tax, no tax!

Your taxes will not go up!

...'cause the last thing you need is higher taxes

when we're in a recession like this.

So you won't get one under an Obama administration.

Obama made the centerpiece of his campaign

the pledge that taxes would not be raised

on anyone making under 125,000 dollars a year.

He has since gone back on that promise as well;

and has proposed new taxes on payroll, energy,

home mortgage deductions, and scores of other taxes.

He made a pledge, he said,

[I understand] "I'm not gonna raise taxes

on anyone making under [I understand] 250.

[Um, hmm] Is that pledge still active?

Uh, we are going to let the process work its way through.

So it's not? So it's not? So it's not?

We're going to let the process work its way through.

[Laughter.] Alright?

The Senate is looking especially at this issue of...

of capping the deductions for... for health care

that employers and employees now get.

That would... would... would be an increase, a tax increase

for many families earning under 250,000 dollars.

But the President said he was open to it,

so that means that the tax pledge he made back

in September is not longer operative?

Obama said he was going to abolish the Patriot Act;

he now vigorously defends it.

We saw the same type of flip-flop when it came to

warrantless wiretapping of the American people.

Look what Obama's done with wiretapping, surveillance.

He's brought it to heights even beyond what George Bush...

the disgusting levels that he brought it to.

So we have more surveillance.

Now they are talking about --what is it called-- cybercom?

The new Pentagon secret cyber society

that's going to be watching over us?

To get those terrorists.

You gotta get those terrorists.

So now they'll be invading our privacy even more.

So, I mean, it really...

it really almost makes you ask the question,

"Would it have been better if we never invented the internet

and had to use paper and pencil or whatever."

Now Obama is setting up the cyber-security command,

which the government admits completely ends

the Fourth Amendment and allows President Obama to shut off

the internet in the United States whenever he wishes.

Indeed, in today's world acts of terror could come,

not only from a few extremists in suicide vests,

but from a few keystrokes on the computer:

a weapon of mass disruption.

As part of the new single national security staff

announced this week,

I'm creating a new office here at the White House

that will be led by the Cyber-security Coordinator.

This new control grid is administered by the Pentagon.

They just want to keep tabs on us.

So we're turning in to a surveillance,

wiretapped government state.

The government is taking more and more control over our lives.

I can stand here today as President of the United States

and say without exception or equivocation

that we do not torture.

Obama made a show of investigating torture,

but has ignored the Army's own detailed investigative reports,

which name the torturors, the White House memos document,

were following the directives of Bush and Cheney:

the men who are most guilty for issuing the infamous orders.

Some low-level soldiers have been prosecuted

for their role in Abu Ghraib, but no senior officer

has been held accountable in any of these cases to date.

Heidi?

And I know that these debates lead directly, in some cases,

to a call for a fuller accounting,

perhaps through an independent commission.

I have opposed the creation of such a commission.

Next, Obama expanded Bush's doctrine of

indefinite detention of foreigners without trial,

to holding citizens without evidence indefinitely,

without ever even committing a crime.

President Obama today proposed something new,

something called "prolonged detention".

Pre-crime is where people are arrested and incarcerated

to prevent crimes that they have not yet committed.

Barack H. Obama, who ran as an anti-war candidate,

has continued the war in Iraq,

massively expanded the war in Afghanistan,

and unleashed a new conflict in Pakistan.

Now Obama is promoting the biggest defense budget in history,

dwarfing George Bush's war machine.

What George Bush has been trying to do,

as part of his effort to accumulate

more power in the presidency is... he's been saying,

"Well, I can basically change what Congress passed

by attaching a letter saying, I don't agree with this part,

or I don't agree with that part;

I'm gonna choose to interpret it this way or that way,"

that's not part of his power.

But, this is part of the whole theory of George Bush

that he can make laws as he's going along.

I disagree with that.

I taught the Constitution for 10 years.

I believe in the Constitution

and I will obey the Constitution of the United States.

We're not gonna use signing statements as a way

of doing and end-run around Congress, alright?

Obama guaranteed that once President,

he would stop the unconstitutional practice

of issuing signing statements through which

the Executive branch illegally usurps

the legislative power of Congress.

Congressman Kucinich, when he introduced his sixty

Articles of Impeachment against Bush, Junior

I think one was the signing statements.

The form of the resolution is as follows:

A Resolution, Articles of Impeachment of George Bush,

President of the United States. Resolved,

that President George W. Bush be impeached

for high crimes and misdemeanors...

Article 26:
Announcing the intent to violate laws

with signing statements and in violation

of his constitutional duty

under Article 2, Section 3 of the Constitution,

to take care that the laws be faithfully executed,

has used signing statements to claim the right

to violate acts of Congress

even before he signs those acts into law.

Same analysis would apply to Obama and a fortiori

because he taught constitutional law; he knows better.

He is a lawyer licensed to practice law, who -- as I am --

who took an oath when he was licensed to uphold

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