Koch Brothers launch $6.1 million attack ad against Obama, Obama campaign responds, calling it “BS”

But they are american. Just Americans of their kind.

Blah blah blah Obama isn’t perfect blah blah blah.   Everything Obama has done outweights all the boring nonsense issues that your tiny Fox News brain is filled with.  Look, you aren’t very smart and you don’t understand how the government works.  Obama can’t do everything by himself.   There are three branches to the United States government and each one has a power.  Maybe if Mitt Romney was opposed to all the things you blame Obama for doing you would have a point but if anything the Republicans would be worse. 

Obama spent all his poitical capital passing universal healthcare.  Obamacare provides health care for over 50 million people that don’t have access.  This will save more lives than anything you are bitching about.   Obama ended don’t ask don’t tell which will be one of the most significant steps in achieving equal rights for gay people.    Anyway you keep bitching about the time Obama killed a terrorist and I will keep praising Obama for giving healthcare to 50 million poor people.  

Dr. J…I think I love you.
THANK YOU for pointing out the 3 branches of government.  I think a lot of people have forgot what they learned in school(or just didn’t pay any attention in history class) and now it is biting them in the ass, whether they realize it or not.But to go off Dr. J’s points-
We have a 3 system government, not a dictatorship.  Obama is NOT supreme ruler and he does NOT have the power to simply make things happen.  Our system is suppose to rely on checks and balances.  Each branch(legislative, judicial, and executive) does not have more power than the other and each one has a check over the other.
In my opinion, Obama has made good on a fair amount of his campaign promises, more so than any president I’ve seen.  He is trying to do what is best for the country.

What does NOT help, is when people bitch and moan about somebody or something but offer no other solution.  When everybody bickers and nobody is willing to sit down, like adults, and talk things over to find the best solution for everybody as a whole.

Compromise.Negotiate.
Discuss.
THINK.

It seems most politicians don’t know these words.  If we could all get along and stop acting the selfish assholes, maybe we could make our country good again and get Europe to stop laughing at us.  They see our country as a spoiled teenager, one who thinks they know better than the older adults who have been around the block a few times.

How about we stop the mudslinging and name-calling and bashing and the taking away of rights(whether it be the rights and privileges that come with marriage or hospital visits or women’s health or the right to collectively bargain for fair working conditions) and actually work on our country.  Pump money into building the roads, making cities better, making sure police are able to do their job(in the non-corrupt asshole way, going back to the basic point of their job which is to serve and protect), and education.

We are all humans.  Can’t we treat each other fairly?

Also, in getting to the economy, when a snowball rolls down hill for a couple of years, the damage it caused is not going to be fixed in 4 years.  Especially not 4 years in which the 2 groups trying to do the repairs bicker and won’t focus on the real issues and won’t let the other one do certain things that might help.

 I love how this people are mad at Obama for minor things while they let Republicans off the hook for focusing on birth certificates and making sure women can’t get birth control.   It’s pathetic.  I don’t like everything Obama has done but I don’t like everything about any one person on Earth.

He didn’t close Gitmo because it takes money to close Gitmo, and Congress (not the WH) must approve of spending. He promised he would order it closed, he did.

“Like why didn’t he fulfill the campaign promise, one of the cornerstones of his campaign btw, to close Gitmo?”
Because a bipartisan coalition of paranoid imbeciles in Congress passed a bill forbidding it. How can anyone who brings up Gitmo not know that? 

“Why has he not called for an investigation into his AG for the gun running program he signed off on, or for lying to congress, who is about to charge Mr Holder with contempt of congress”

Good question. I think Holder has spent 3 years demonstrating that his time out of government did not include acquisition of a moral compass or growth of a backbone, despite appearances 3-4 years ago. He has proven himself unfit for his office, and his failure to fire everyone involved with F&F the day he learned of it is an important part of that proof.

“Why is it that Obama, who promised in his campaign that his government would be transparent, and open, has commissioned the CIA to run a secret drone bombing campaign that’s targeted civilians on multiple occasions?”

See Brennan’s discussion of that this week. I think it is an implausible claim that the drone program has “targeted civilians” for any rational definition of those words, and such claims are never made by anyone who can credibly claim to know. 

As for transparency, a military program is the last place you will ever find it. If you want transparency, try http://www.recovery.gov. Reversing the natural tendency of government to operate opaquely and the active promotion of that under Bush is a large slow process. If you had listened carefully to Obama, you would have noted that he made relative promises about transparency, not absolute ones. I think he’s met the promise to be “more transparent” and maybe even the “most transparent”, even if he’s not making the CIA publish daily operational planning reports. 

“why is Obama’s justice department acting as a proxy for the entertainment industry in an unconstitutional attack on a file sharing company? This clearly a civil case, yet Holder’s crew is prosecuting the case in a criminal trial”

I don’t think it is at all clear that the MegaUpload case is not criminal in principle, although it does seem clear that there are technical challenges with enforcing US criminal law against foreign corporations that were not met (and maybe couldn’t have been) in this case. I think this is another case of Holder going along with a corrupt bureaucratic establishment that is in the habit of doing anything in the intellectual property realm that the lawyers from Disney, Universal, Sony, et al. can give them a rationalization for. 

As for that reflecting on Obama, I think that has to be informed by an understanding of how the federal government and especially the DoJ should function.  I think that the Holder Problem has been made worse by the fact that Obama doesn’t see the Reagan/Meese or Bush/Gonzales cases as the proper models for how a President should relate to an AG. Holder’s serial failures are his own and only reflect poorly on Obama in the sense that the appointment was a mistake that has played out as such in a predictable way. 

“So which is more odious? Some stupid campaign lies, which will be flowing fast and heavy from both sides over the coming months,”

Arguing from the assumption of purely hypothetical future events is about as weak as it gets. There are gradations of untruth due to the imprecision of words and the human capacity for sincere misbelief, so there really can’t be a valid argument that all sides are equally guilty of the sort of bullshit called out in this case until such time as there is a concrete example. Based on their respective track records, I think it is ridiculous to suggest that Romney and Obama will engage in comparable sorts of  ”campaign lies” in the coming 6 months. Romney hasn’t managed to personally alienate 2 batches of nomination contenders by accident, he’s done it largely by a pattern of carefully crafted and practiced dishonesty. 

” or the actual bombing of innocent people and subjugation, once again, of the constitution by the sitting administration?”

Apples and oranges and hyperbolic hogwash. 

I’m all for ending all killing of innocents in war, because I’m all for ending war, which always kills innocents and always will.  I think the Forever & Everywhere War crafted for us by the prior administration for strategic domestic political ends  remains a huge intractable problem that has no ethically pure solution which can actually be executed by any President. Our architected state of war is to some degree working as designed, but I think Obama has followed an unexpected path to dismantle that design by finding colorable “victories” to end the various sub-wars one by one. It is clear from Romney’s choice of advisors and spokespeople on military and foreign policy that he is fully on board with the strategy of a permanent state of unwinnable war against a vaguely defined enemy (the “Not With Us” legions.) As cynical as it may be, Obama has declared victory and left Iraq (which is hardly a peaceful place) and has lashed US policy to a similar path in Afghanistan, with victory pre-declared for 2014 and a decade of vigilant friendship declared for the ensuing decade without regard to actual events. I’m not sure I understand what endgame plan is served by the CIA drone campaign, but I expect there is one. Given the alternatives of a proven track record of overall reduction in the scope and intensity of our warfare or promises to reverse that trend, the right choice is clear to me even if it isn’t one I’m excited about making in this area. The option of rapidly dismantling the military-industrial complex  and de-imperializing our foreign policy isn’t being offered by anyone realistically capable of winning the Presidency, and it hasn’t been for a very long time. Anyone who believes Obama ever offered that was not paying attention. Since I never held that delusion I’m not particularly disappointed.