{"id":14864,"date":"2012-01-12T19:54:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T03:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14864"},"modified":"2012-01-12T19:55:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T03:55:15","slug":"better-than-obama-on-the-issues-that-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14864","title":{"rendered":"Better Than Obama On the Issues That Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Wise has decided that, like many of us true progressives, he&#8217;s had enough with that fascist Obama. He&#8217;s decided to throw his lot behind a guy that, sure, has some baggage, and, yeah, said some racist stuff. But on the big issues, the important issues, the issues that\u00a0<em>really<\/em>\u00a0matter,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timwise.org\/2012\/01\/of-broken-clocks-presidential-candidates-and-the-confusion-of-certain-white-liberals\/\" target=\"_blank\">he&#8217;s spot on<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would like to properly introduce you to a man about whom you\u2019ve heard much \u2014 especially from his enemies and those who prefer a continuation of the status quo \u2014 but at whom you might wish to take a second look, and whom you might consider supporting for president.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Barack Obama, he supports an\u00a0<em>immediate<\/em>\u00a0end to our current and ongoing wars abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Barack Obama, he supports an end to predator drone attacks by the United States military, which kill innocent civilians and foment growing hatred of America. He believes that the so-called \u201cwar on terror\u201d as we\u2019ve engaged it has undermined American freedoms at home and contributed to greater tensions and anti-American sentiment abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Barack Obama, he supports an entirely revamped Middle East policy, in which the U.S. will no longer subsidize the oppression of the Palestinian people by the state of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Barack Obama, he supports either abolishing or fundamentally reforming the Federal Reserve system, and he opposed bailing out the banks with public funds.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Barack Obama, this individual opposes government spying and believes in absolute freedom of speech and the press, and as he puts it, \u201creduced government intrusion into our lives.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it Ron Paul? It&#8217;s gotta be Ron Paul, right? Ron Paul rules! Ron Paul\u00a0<em>is<\/em>\u00a0the Constitution! Ron Pual Ron Paul Ron Paul Ron Paul!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ladies and Gentlemen of the left, I give you your perfect candidate for 2012:<\/p>\n<p>David Duke.<\/p>\n<p>Oh I\u2019m sorry, did you think I was talking about someone\u00a0<em>else<\/em>?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ron P&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Uh.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Go read the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>(And yes, this is obviously satirical.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Wise has decided that, like many of us true progressives, he&#8217;s had enough with that fascist Obama. He&#8217;s decided to throw his lot behind a guy that, sure, has some baggage, and, yeah, said some racist stuff. But on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14864\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14866,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864\/revisions\/14866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}