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Obama: To The Right of Reagan

Mon, 01/23/2012 - 20:49 — Dave Culver
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  • Barack Obama recently told a radio interviewer of his response to criticisms of his administration, "I tell them what Joe Biden says, 'Judge me not as the Almighty, consider the alternative.'
  • Barack Obama vs. Farrakhan, Hedges and the Bill of Rights

Marsha Coleman-Abedayo, Black Agenda Report
 
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Barack Obama has not just dribbled away the progressive mandate of 2008, he has emerged over the past three years as a politician "to the right of President Ronald Reagan, the Tea Party hero" on at least some issues. The U.S. continues its steady decline in all the indices that count for the average person. "Only three developed countries – Albania, Russian and Moldova – had a worse maternal mortality rate." African Americans are in free fall under the First Black President.
 
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Barack Obama vs. Farrakhan, Hedges and the Bill of Rights, Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report
By signing the preventive detention law that his operatives in Congress helped to craft, President Obama has nullified the pillars of the Bill of Rights: due process of law and freedom of speech.
 

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