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United States News Title: What have you achieved for Obama? (Moonbat can't accept that the Kenyan is a 100% fraud) So I was watching Exit Through the Gift Shop, which spends a lot of time on Shepard Fairey's efforts to plaster his OBEY image far and wide, and I thought, wait, don't I know this guy? And moments later the film reminded me that this was the same schmuck who would later create the Obama HOPE poster, because, and I quote: I have made art opposing the Iraq war for several years, and making art of Obama, who opposed the war from the start, is like making art for peace. I know I have an audience of young art fans and I’m delighted if I can encourage them to see the merits of Barack Obama. Curious to see how delighted Mr. Art-For-Peace has been feeling after watching President Merit kick the war machine into hyperdrive, I happened across this essay of his from last September: I support President Obama. I believe he is an intelligent, compassionate person, with many good policy ideas. If Obama runs for reelection in 2012, I will support him. And while I wish he was more bold in action on issues of most concern to me -- health care, global warming, the war in Afghanistan, Wall Street reform, education, immigration reform -- I realize he is trying to do the best that he can given the obstructionist, "just say no to anything," opposition he faces from the Republicans in Congress. Yes, it's a crying shame how the Republicans in Congress have forced Obama to massively increase drone strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan, cut backroom deals with pharmaceutical and health care corporations, blackmail countries into accepting his administration's attempts to defer any meaningful response to global warming, wage war in open defiance of not just the Constitution but the War Powers Resolution, persecute whistleblowers with a ferocity that makes Nixon look like a bong-smoking hippie, etc etc etc. Curse you, John Boehner! You can read the rest if you want, but I warn you that "he is an intelligent, compassionate person, with many good policy ideas" is as deep a political insight as you're going to find. But I did want to highlight this sobering challenge from another Obama defender (writing in response to some grousing malcontents in the comments): Whatever happened to "Think what you can do for your country?" Instead of whining about what Obama has not achieved, look in the mirror. What have you achieved for Obama? Man, that stings. What have I achieved for Obama? I haven't backed a Latin American coup, raised a single dime from Wall Street, expanded executive privilege so much as a centimeter, forced any Haitians back to their earthquake- and cholera-stricken hell on earth, shot an unarmed man in the face, lobbied for corporate tax cuts, or blown up even one measly Afghan wedding party. And then I have the audacity to complain when he does it all himself! So before we presume to criticize Obama any further, let's take a good long look in the mirror and think about what we can do for him. Couldn't we ship a handgun or two to the Israeli army, just so he'll know he's not in this alone? Yes we can!
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Do you realize that every article that you post is incoherent or are you just after a headline? Don;t bother answering. IGNORE THREAD [as usual]
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