100 Ways Barack Obama Is Just Like George W. Bush The election of President Obama was in no small part, a referendum on the administration of George W. Bush, and his victory was interpreted as a sound rebuke to eight years of open ended warfare, a vast and growing police state, the destruction of civil liberties, disregard for the Constitution, unchecked executive power, lies and broken promises, hypocrisy and arrogance, a lack of transparency in government, out-of-control federal spending, fever-pitch fearmongering, rampant corruption, and some really stupid gaffes. But what have we gotten instead? More of the same. A LOT more of the same. In fact, every negative aspect of the Bush Administration has come back with a vengeance in the presidency of Barack H. Obama. Everything the American people detested so strongly about Bush has not only characterized the presidency of his successor, it's gotten much worse. Don't believe me? The following is a list of 100 ways President Obama is just like President Bush. We might as well consider it a third Bush term on steroids, or call Mr. Obama "Bush 2.0." If you honestly didn't like Bush, you can't possibly justify liking Obama, not unless you ignore the facts:
(Just to keep it short here, i'll post a few, and you can go to the link below and look at the rest)

http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2011/08/bush-20-100-ways-barack-obama-is-just.html

1. Iraq - We should have known in 2008 that we wouldn't see any real change from the Obama Administration. Despite campaigning for the U.S. Senate in 2004 on a platform of voting against Bush's war budgets, when he became a Senator, Obama voted for every single one of Bush's requests to continue funding war in the Middle East. Apparently, his streak of broken promises started long before campaigning for the White House (and we'll get to those later down the list).

Then right off the bat in February of 2009, a mere month into his administration, President Obama revealed a phony withdrawal plan that would take three months longer than promised, and leave a whopping 50,000 troops in Iraq (out of the 135,000 that were there when Obama assumed office). Eight months later in October 2009, 131,000 troops remained in Iraq, and Obama sent another 1000 at the request of theater commanders in Iraq. Seriously.


10. Defense Spending Levels - "Defense" spending has only gone up during President Obama's first term from $616 billion under Bush in 2008 to $768 billion in 2011, and Obama still wants even more. We were promised change. Why are we spending even more on bombs and bullets?


11. Record Casualty Levels - Under Obama, the wars haven't just gotten bigger, more numerous, and even more legally dubious than under Bush (more on that later)-- they've gotten deadlier. According to the most up-to-date figures as of this publication, under Obama, the U.S. casualty rate in Afghanistan is five times greater than it was under Bush.

14. The Patriot Act - A favorite target of Bush critics, the Patriot Act violates the 1st, 4th, and 5th amendments of the Constitution. Passed and renewed over and over again with little debate or deliberation, this gargantuan bill gave the federal government sweeping new powers to police its citizenry while ignoring the constitutional restrictions our Founding Fathers created to protect us from tyranny.

It should be no surprise that after the failed efforts of one honest Republican senator to prevent its passage, Obama renewed the Patriot Act (from across the Atlantic Ocean by autopen) as president-- he voted for its renewal as a senator. On one of the most important issues of our era, Obama is indistinguishable from Bush. He supports the (un)Patriot(ic) Act.

15. The TSA - Created by an act of Congress during the Bush Administration, and organized within the Department of Homeland Security, the TSA has been annoying and harassing passengers at airports for a decade now. But under President Obama, it has become more aggressive and oppressive than it ever was under Bush, with the installment of dozens of radiation-emitting "naked body scanners" throughout the country and directives from the DHS to use "enhanced" pat downs that many critics say amount to sexual assault. Under Bush, the TSA was merely annoying. Under Obama, it is horrifyingly out of control.

16. The War on Drugs - The decades-long "War on Drugs" has been a spectacular failure of public policy, resulting in billions of wasted dollars, record levels of incarceration, higher rates of drug fatalities, and the creation of a violent international criminal drug cartel that thrives on continued prohibition. The 2009 Ogden Memo signaled that Obama might change course in the failed "War on Drugs." Nope. In July 2011, the Justice Department published a new memo indicating that things would stay just the same as they were under George W. Bush.

And now for a liberal response,


"You are a racist!"

(I do hope you see this for the sarcasm it is and who it is aimed at! Not you of course!)

I had to get that off of my chest! Liberals REFUSE to see the evil Obama has become more so than when he was running for president.

Funny thing to me is I seen him for the bullshitte artist he was and didn't vote for him. And yet so many hard line liberals are going to vote for him because he is misunderstood and not given a chance to make good.

I would LOVE to see the proof the Libs will use to refute this thread! Then again they may not touch this one with a ten foot pole!

All politicians are alike because when their lips are moving, they're lying! Oh yeah, and it costs us money!

Sad but true.

So true!

i remember quite a few of them calling me a racist for not liking oberry...but whether i am racist or not, he is a bad president...

i just find it odd that none of the die hard oberry fans just cannot see any of this...he is like a carbon copy of bush, and his followers are just being blind....

Need I say more?

Speaking of which, I bet this topic is too hot for them Osama Bin Obama supporters.

not one yet...i wonder why?

Truth hurts

You know why.

^^^The Dr. Is In The House!^^^

Obama is nothing like President Bush. President Bush has class, something Obama doesn't have and never will have.

is there a broken record emoticon?.....lol