Has President Obama delivered on his election promises?
Published: 22 June, 2009, 11:13
Edited: 30 October, 2009, 10:42
TAGS: Interview, Politics, USA
RT catches up with a former U.S. congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who resigned from Obama's Democratic Party and is a critic of his administration.
She says Obama’s administration has failed miserably on many points promised during the presidential election campaign.
“Torture is not only against US law, it is also against international law. Earlier on, I sent a message to the White House in which I said “Mr. President! Please, do not become an accessory to a crime. In fact, not only has the Obama administration refused to investigate, the Obama administration has sent its Justice Department into court to protect those very individuals who ordered and approved of torture. Therefore, this administration, in my opinion, is walking a very fine line. It could easily become an accessory to torture, war crimes and crimes against humanity,” McKinney says.
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Do the American people even have access to interviews with Cynthia? She is the real deal. What a president she would make. The one point that really stood out, was when she said she is baffled that Americans are not protesting, their hard-earned money has been literally taken from them through taxesand given to the 5% of thw wealthiest people in the country. Americans are living in tent cities, and yet they are not rioting, it's incredible, I mean how ignorant are Americans exactly??
Meslin, you wrote "Consequently, the rise and election of a nice looking, polite, well educated comedian was the answer. His color and origines were the cream on the top of the pie. Then was elected at the head of the supposed to be greatest nation on Earth, the perfect puppet: Barack Obama." With this you capture the whole tenet of what is going on here. This is an act, a nice act, and a diversion for a pleasent evening, the actor is chosen well and the script carefully written, However, a show, a circus, is not going to achieve anything, be it for the American people themselves or the wider world population. An act cannot deliver on anything, because as always, and by definition it is unconnected with reality. Whether Obama, meant good I do not know, all I do know, is that he is a powerless act, controlled by the inner circle of institution USA. Whether he is a willing puppet, I do not know, however, the stark reality is that he is a puppet. This whole Hollywood American revolution will come off the rails, when people realise it is all just words, and that they are still in a financial mess, that they are still with empire ambitions, they are still torturing, still raping, still conducting a war against Islam. You can lie to some of the people, some of the time, but you can't lie to all of the people, all of the time. The American people, and the rest of the world, will become tired of these lies and facade, becuase it will bring them nothing as a people, nothing as a nation and nothing as a world of nations. The Obama expectations, as it looks today, will not be delivered on. Unless Obama conducts a real revolution, and rests power from the 'few' who are the self interested inner circle of empire USA. Actions speak loader than words, at present we are being deafened by words that overshadow the silence of US positive actions. Talk it up, may work, in a cheap marketing campaign, but it doesn't work on the world stage, on this stage, people want contruction, which by definition requires positive, constructive action.
The answer to your question is so obvious, because so far at least, Obama has been no treat. Are we getting free health care like other civilized countries? Nope. Have the Wall Street bankers been punished? Nope. Have we made peace with Cuba and allowed Americans to travel there? Nope. Have we started a program to prevent economic collapse from peak oil? Nope. Does every American have high-speed access to the internet? Nope. Can we ride across our Country on high-speed trains like the Germans, French, and Japanese? Nope. Are nuclear plants being quickly built to reduce global warming? Nope. Tens of thousands of windmills being put up? Nope. Has New Orleans been protected from flooding like St. Petersburg? Nope. Are gays safe in the military? Nope. Yes, it was a trick question. Happy Halloween.