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THE MODERATE VOICE OF A TIME THAT HAS YET TO COME

AN ONLINE JOURNAL & ARCHIVE OF ALTERNATIVE NEWS & INFORMATION

THE OBAMA METER
Change we can count

 Overall score: 20%

 Second term: 15%

0% Afghanistan

Gives permission for CIA drones to kill innocent civlians

Obama orders more drone attacks in first year than Bush did during his entire presidency

Escalated war in Afghanistan & Pakistan

Obama's Afghan war chief linked to torture

0% Agriculture

Obama gives key agriculture post to Monsanto man

Obama undermines organic farming

No restitution to black farmers discriminated against

19% Business

Obama makes it easier for corporations to buy him

Obama puts fox in charge of SEC hen house

The auto rescue worked

Obamadmin negotiating trade agreement that would gut internet privacy, free speech and due process

Calls for end of tax cuts for those earning ovr $250k

Obamadmin fails to carry out most of inspector general's recommendations about bailout operation

The Obama-Dimon connection

Obama got most from equity, hedge funds in 2008

How Obama is still covering up bank fraud

What Obama isn't telling you about the auto bailout

Obama caving to banks in subprime mortage scandal settlement

Obamadmin reworked Solyndra loan to favor donor

Justice Department discovers long lost anti-trust laws

Obama's new economic advisor wants still more corporate subsidies

Michelle Obama gets buddy buddy with Wal-Mart

Drastically increased the number of 1099 forms small business will have to handle.

Named Goldman Sachs vice president as head of SEC's enforcement divison.

In bed with Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street barons

Named five pro-RIAA lawyers to top Justice Department positions

Created failed bank bailout

Mishandled AIG bailout.

Got the Swiss to turn over the names of US tax fudgers in major bank.

Supported the record industry in major downloading case.

27% Drugs

Obama threatens media with jail time over medical marijuana

Obama threatens California pot dispensaries with criminal charges

Obama bullies Rhode Island out of medical pot centers

Obama plans to prosecute medical marijuana growers & sellers...

12,000 prisoners to be released in recognition of unfair drug policy

Obama lets Big Pharma grow pot, but not state approved programs

Obama bans another drug, adding to profits of illicit drug industry

Veterans administrastion will allow medical majijuana in states where it is legal.

Opposes legalization of marijuana.

Increased funding for war on drugs

40% Economic and fiscal policy

Obama names former Carlyle Group partner to Fed

Obama's job program. Adding up pluses and minuses, we give him a plus 5

Top Obama advisor claims voters won't worry about unemployment

Obama's jobs council members busy killing jobs

Obama to slash funds for community development & services

Supported eliminating onerous 1099 reporting requirement for small businesses

Handling of tax cut debate 2010

OBAMA LAUNCHES $22 MILLION PROGRAM TO AID OUTSOURCING

OBAMA WANTED TO CUT FOOD STAMPS

Extension of unemployment benefits

Grossly insufficient bank oversight bill

Obama's second mortgate modification plan bombs

Stimulus program falls far short

Named Lawrence Summers as head of economic council

Proposed crackdown on offshore tax avoidance

Created grossly insuffient jobs program

13% Education

Obama wants to slash vocational education spending by 20%

Obama caves in to for-profit colleges on rules

Obama wants your five year old to sit still and shut up

Obama wants to control colleges through greenmail

Prigs in the lunchroom: the Obama administration's war on potatoes

Obama jacks up suits against student defaults

Obama openly joins the Bush family in pushing No Child scam

Feds's own stats prove education policy a flop

Eliminating banks from college loan program

Pushes test obsessed education program Policies repeastedly interfere with powers of local schools

Proposes $12 billion for community colleges.

Secretary Duncan threatens to withold funds to states that refuse to privatize public schools

Education secretary Duncan wants national education standards, for which there is no constitutional basis for federal government intrusion

Argues for more charter schools

Plans to press for merit pay for teachers and other interference in local schools

Educuation secretary Duncan wants to shorten student summer vacations and extend the school day

35% Environment

Obama rejects pipeline

Obama campaign signs on lobbyist for pipeline and Comcast

Obama hurts the economy by pulling EPA reg

Obama admin hiding information on Gulf dolphin deaths

The Obama 2011 budget has $36 billion in loan guarantees for new nuclear plants

Obama allows 13 oil companies to drill offshore under old safety standards

Handling of BP crisis

Issues new emissions standards for motor vehicles

Signs bill creating two million more acres of public wilderness

EPA declares greenhouse gases a public health threat

Plans to end projected use of Yucca Mountain as a nuclear dump

Permits states to set fuel emission standards. This is not only good for the environment; it's a rare example of a contemporary president observing the 10th Amendment's grant of powers to states

Supports expansion, and heavy subsidy, of nuclear power

Supports development of so-called "clean coal"

Fails to take meaningful steps to reduce human pollution

30% Foreign policy

America moves into Africa big time

Another illegal war: Obama creating drone base in Niger

Obama pressures Europeans not to help Palestinians

Obamites worked to prevent war crimes investigation against Israel

Obama to ease travel restrictions to Cuba, allow more U.S. cash to island

START Treaty approved

OBAMA ENDORSES ISRAELI APARTHEID

OBAMA BACKS ISRAELI CRIMINALS

Signed nuclear weapon limitation agreement with Russia

Hasn't closed Gitmo

Hilllary Clinton threatens Iraq type war against Iran

Caved in to Israel on handling of settlements

Revived Bush era military tribunals for terrorism suspects

Quietly announces that, in contradiction to a campaign pledge, he will not be pressing for new NAFTA labor and enviromental regulations.

Plans to leave a large number of troops in Iraq

Makes Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State

Agrees to sign on to UN statement favoring global decriminalization of homosexuality

Eases restrictions on Cuban families visiting Cuba and sending money there.

Names George Mitchell envoy to Middle East

15% Freedom & Justice

Obama violating the Constitution again
 
Obamadmin spied on Associated Press
 
Obama has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other presidents combined
 

Obama has secret, unconstitutional international agreement on fast track

Obama's latest end run around the Constitution

Obamadmin supports gay marriage in California

Obamadmin argues for right of public to photograph police

Obamadmin banning citizens & legal residents from returning to America

Another false Obama legal ruling: It's okay to kill Americans if we think they are involved with Al Qaida

Obamadmin to argue DOMA is unconstitutional

Obama on Track to Deport a Record 2 Million People by 2014

Obama's war on truth tellers

Obama's CIA nominee knew torture was going on

Obama claims illegal secret powers over cyberspace

Another false Obama legal ruling: It's okay to kill Americans if we think they are involved with Al Qaida

Obamadmin banning citizens & legal residents from returning to America

Obama continues illegal detentions

Obama signs illegal spy bill

Obama Writing "Rules" for Killing People with Drones

Obama clears banks to commit crimes at will

Obama approves massive spying on American citizens

Obama's freedom of information record worse than Bush's

Obama using failed lie detectors to suppress leaks

Obama campaign bragging about assault on whistleblowers

Obama tries to hold on to unconstitutional detention law

Obamites choose which secrets to leak and which to prosecute

Obamadmin argues cellphone tracking should be exempt from Constitution

Obama hires fifth RIAA lawyer for Justice Department

Obama's campaign against whistleblowers

27 of 35 articles of impeachment proposed against Bush apply to Obama, too

Obama gets to pick which Americans he wants to murder

Obama criminalizing free speech

Obama pushing secret copyright treaty that would do the work of SOPA

Obama: It's okay to torture but you get up to 30 years in prison for revealing it

Obama signs unconstitutional arrest law

Obama and Congress want to censor Twitter

Obamadmin intervenes to defend right to photograph cops in action

Obama administration declares talking about jury nullification to be a crime

Obama continues suspension of Constitution

President Obama is backing legislation that would prohibit employers from discriminating against job applicants because they are unemployed.

Obama appoints record percent of non-white male judges

Obama continues suspension of Constitution

Obama trying to jail whistleblowing NY Times reporter

Obama administration ends Don't Ask Don't Tell

Obama expands trashing of Fourth Amendment

Obama cracks down on civil rights abuses by city cops

How Obama has damaged patient privacy

Obama claims right to censor unclassified material

Obama wants access to private mobile phone data

Obama supports more warrantless searches

Air passengers get new rights

Opposed Patent Office's grant of patents of human genes

Obama assaults Miranda ruling

Obama planning to have military manipulate social networks

Obama wants to make file sharing a felony with prison up to 20 years

According to George Bush and Barack Obama, you or any American citizen can, without criminal charges, be placed in an isolation cell, denied sleep (with no mattress, blanket, sheet, or pillow) and painfully shackled. It's already happened.

Obama maintains foreign phone calls not protected by Constitutio

Obama's plan to turn Internet into giant spy machine

Obamadmin says Americans put on no fly list can take a cargo ship home

Obama seeks veto control over domain names

Obama's plan to turn Internet into giant spy machine

Hospitals must permit gay partner visits

Obama wants lie detectors, psychiatrists to spy on federal workers

Repeal of DADT

Handline of Wikileaks case

Opposed Supreme Court decision on corporate personhood

Appoints a record number of gays to high positions

OBAMA STRIKES ANOTHER BLOW AGAINST CONSTITUTION

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION BANS ENTRY OF HARVARD FELLOW CRITICAL OF COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT

FEDERAL JUDGE TELLS OBAMA: NO, YOU CAN'T SEIZE LAPTOPS WITHOUT A WARRANT

Sues to stop Arizona's immigrant harassment law

OBAMA ATTACKS CONSTITUTION AGAIN; ATTEMPTS TO STRIP MORE CONGRESSIONAL POWER

OBAMA SEEKING WAYS TO SABOTAGE MIRANDA RULING

OBAMA INFORMATION CZAR WOULD STRIP FIRST AMENDMENT FROM BLOGS

Appoints Elena Kagan to Supreme Court

Medical records act a major threat to privacy

Signed an extention of the Patriot Act

Obama administration says it has right to kill you when you're overseas

Supports warrentless tracking of US citizens via cellphone location

Made it much harder to find out if you are the terrorist watch list

Continues illegal border computer searches

Supports the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act.

Supported continued illegal wiretapping on American citizens

Permitting torture and renditions to continue

Opposes legalization of marijuana

Refuses to prosecute CIA torture criminals

Instutues virtual strip searches of air passengers, without regard to either Constitution or to proper scientific testing for dangers.

Support overturn of long-standing law that stops police from initiating questions unless a defendant's lawyer is present

Claims prisoners have no right to DNA evidence that might prove their innocence.

Supports recording industry's legal war against listeners

Eric Holder says he favors continuation of secret searches of library and bookstore data files

19% General government

Obama names anti-union, former bigtime subprime banker billionaire as Commerce Secretary

Obama signs bill allowing congressmembers to hide financial info

Obama wants to kill 80 year old TVA

Obamadmin blows prosecution of Blackwater as well as banks

Veterans' claims pile up, wait an average of 273 days

IRS out to weaken its whistleblowing program

Obamadmin opens up government funded research

Former lobbyist for Swiss bankers is now chief counsel of the IRS

Obama offered Google chair job of Treasury Secretary

Obama's war on whistleblowers includes not appointing inspectors general

Obama gives MPAA easier access to draft trade agreements that Senate committee chair

Obama's new OMB director worked for Bain firm

Prosecution of whistleblowers tipping off media has soared under Obama

Obama named job slashers to job creation panel

Obama's copyright czar cozied up over close to industry

Obama's secret panel can decide whether to kill you

Obamadmin reworked Solyndra loan to favor donor

Our national government replaced by "federal family"

Judge orders Obamadmin to release names of all White House visitors

OMB seeking ways to cut red tape for states and localities

Obama undermines Social Security with payroll tax holiday

Obama has added diversity to the courts

Nearly 200 of Obama's biggest donors have gotten plum government posts

Obama cons: the transparency myth

Obama floats plan to tax cars by the mile driven

By 2015, all new light duty vehicles leased or purchased by agencies must be alternative fueled vehicles.

Obama calls for end of $4 billion in oil company tax breaks

Obama's unabashed war against whistleblowers

The Daley-Obama-Emanuel connection

Obama admin gets rid of official for telling the truth

The budget: Making the victim pay for the crime

Obama hires Wall Street welfare father as chief adviser

Obama sorry he didn't suck up more to GOP: During their first meeting since the midterm elections rearranged the power map in Washington, Mr. Obama told Representative John A. Boehner, the incoming House speaker, and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, that he regretted not reaching out to them more in his first two years in office and vowed to do better

OBAMA HARASSING WHISTLEBLOWERS WORSE THAN PREDECESSORS

Will let Bush era tax cuts expire

Seeks to wrest more budgetary control from Congress

Appoints two anti-Social Security and anti-Medicare figures to head his debt commission

In an end run around the Constitution, names 18 'czars' to oversee cabinet level programs

Imposes lobbying limits on staffers who leave during his term of office.

Supports limits on offshore tax havens

Supports appointed commissions to carry out important functions of Congress.

30% Healthcare

Over six million benefiting from youth provision in Obamacare

Obamadmin to require pharmas to report money given to doctors

Obamites create healthcare nightmare with 120,000 new healthcare codes

Obama to have government research new drugs for pharmas to sell

OBAMA DUMPS NEARLY A MILLION WORKERS FROM KEY HEALTHCARE PROTECTION

For the present, we are treating Obamacare as a wash - some good provisions, some bad

0% Housing

Obama's foreclosure failure

Obama plans to cut low income heating assistance

OBAMA'S FORECLOSURE PLAN A BUST

Plans to turn public housing over to corporate slumlords

29% Health

Sebelius first health secretary to overrule FDA... putting teen age girls at risk to please the right

New Obama sweetheart deal involves uncertain smallpox vaccine

Wants to remove health insurers anti-trust exemption

Badly mishandled the healthcare debate. Healthcare legislation a disaster.

Secret deal with pharma industry drug costs cuts in healthcare plan

Calls for big cuts in Medicare and Medicaid

Modified Bush imposed ban on federal funding of stem cell research

Creastes a hyper-expensive, intrusive and potentially unreliable program to computerize all medical records.The primary beneficiaries seem to be the companies that will be doing the work.

Names major healthcare lobbyist Tom Daschle secretary of Health & Human Services. He later drops out.

50% Labor

Obama finally wants to raise the minimum wage

Obama aids GOP in its war against labor

33% Military

Obama illegally hiding drone information from oversight senator

White House kill list to keep growing

Improved treatment of veterans suffering from effects of Agent Orange

Ending the contsruction of F22 planes.

Appoints William Lynn deputy defense secretary. Lynn has been a top official of defense contractor Raytheon and did a poor job when he was formerly at the Pentagon.

Chooses Robert Gates to continue as Secretary of Defense

67% Mix

Obama chooses anti-gay preacher for inaugural benediction

Has appointed a higher percentage of latinos than either Bush or Clinton.

Improved immigration rules for young peole

0% Politics

Obama sets price of bribes for direct access to him

Obama asks donors for record $75,000

Obamites revealed bin Laden raid details to Hollywood before the public

Obama joins the battle of the billions; checks are the votes that really count

Obamadmin challenges voter ID law

Obama campaign signs on lobbyist for pipeline and Comcast

Hedge funders pay $36k each to pal with Obama over dinner

Had Joe Biden and his campaign team supporting Arlen Specter against his progressive opponent

Dumped Howard Dean as head of the DNC

Fired 200 DCN staffers working on 50 state strategy

Hired Rahm Emmanuel as top aide

0% Religion

OBAMA CAVES TO POPE ON SEX ABUSE

Goes to court to overturn a completely correct court decision declaring the "National Day of Prayer" unconstitutional.

Expands Bush's so-called faith based programs

0% Seniors

Obama deserts nearly 80 years of Democratic policy

Obama wants to cut Social Security, raise age (and the media forgot to tell you)

Obama's Medicare-Social Security cazar supports rationing

Named Social Security attacker Alan Simpson to be co-chair of debt commission

Chose Peter Orszag, who favors cutting Social Security for those under 59, to be budget director

0% Torture

Obama budgets for another torture prison

Obamadmin lets Abu Ghraib torture contractor off the hook

Obama to name murder and torture expert as head of CIA

Obamadmin torturing Manning

Torture camp doctor named to Obama task force

Obamites worked to hide Bush torture evidence

0% Transportation

Launched hyper costly elite high speed rail serving business class riders instead of expanding badly needed conventional rail service for passengers and freight

13% War

Obama admits to illegal war on Pakistan

Obama con of the day: His defense of the Libyan war and why he's lying about it

Obama violates Constitution with undeclared war

Planned 8% drawdown of troops in war zones. No word on mercenaries.

Okays drones killing anyone, even the innocent

Obama Administration says it has the right to kill you when you're overseas

Refuses to end renditions

Will not prosecute Bush administration members for war crimes