COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY JON SHARMAN IN THE
INDEPENDENT
“Defies wishes of
Republicans in Congress”
Well, I am glad to learn that he has done something
worthwhile.
But let's put Obama’s gesture into perspective.
$221,000,000 for the genuinely needy Palestinians and $38,000,000,000
just went to the folks who are picking their bones, the Israelis.
That's just over one-half of one percent.
Really impressive.
And, finally, he gave the little bit of money to the
government of the Palestine Authority which does not even represent all of
Palestine, has gone without any election for years, and has generally pretty
much served as a useful stooge for Israel. The people of Gaza, with their
elected government, are allowed to continue sitting in the rubble and pollution
Israel created for them in 2014.
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Response to a reader
comment:
“Obama elected to make
the American people the focus of his Presidency and has left them in a far
better situation than when he started…”
Oh, yes, indeed.
After all, he dropped more than 100,000 bombs on 7 countries,
and there was not a single day of his eight years during which the United
States wasn't killing people.
There’s also his new hi-tech system of extra-judicial
killing, something which makes the old Argentine junta's style of
"disappearing" people seem primitive and brings such honor to the
name of America and its claims over human and democratic rights.
And, at home, he oversaw record funds for intelligence
agencies spying in new ways on their own people.
He topped that all off with having done absolutely nothing
to stop creating the greatest debt in human history.
And this was accompanied by no effort to even reform the
financial industry whose poor regulation and oversight created a financial
crisis we are all still seriously threatened by.
My, that is a genuinely remarkable set of achievements,
isn't it?
The only act making anything better in eight years of this
strange murderous man with the big smile is his final departure.
