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• Monday, January 12, 2009 12:41 PM

  BACKPEDALLING OBAMA

  You are correct Mr. Greenwald, Obama is backpedalling away from many of his campaign rhetoric and pledges. I first noticed a chink in the armor when he voted for telecom immunity.

  Whenever I hear the President Elect and his staff of devotees talk about the need to look forward I cringe. The base upon which Obama is going to build his legacy rests on the unstable rubble of 8 years of deception, subterfuge and flagrant violations against U.S. & Intl. citizens and the Constitution.

  It is cowardly, unpatriotic, unethical and lacking in character to ignore the documented abuses of the law by the outgoing Administration. This isn't fibbing about oral sex with an intern -- no, this is serious stuff about what REALLY happened on 9/11; the Patriot Act [how was it produced so quickly]; the anthrax attacks; the intelligence leading up to the Iraq War; the torture of detainees in secret prisons around the world; contractor misconduct in Iraq & Afghanistan; warrantless wiretapping and illegal surveillance by our Government and U.S. citizens; the response [or lacktherof] to Hurricane Katrina; the complete capitulation to Big Business and how we let Wall Street run wild and now is being bailed out; etc.

  Obama does not have the courage to speak out against the abuses. The sad thing is he does not have to any heavy lifting. All he must do is put his support behind Conyers and appoint a Special Prosecutor with subpoena powers and let them go crazy.

  Let us have a reckoning. A cleansing. Anything else is denial and complicity.

  —winoohno Read winoohno's other letters
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