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He also promised to take a principled stand against torture and to close Guantanomo, and restore due process; before being elected. Since being elected, none of those things have happened, and he has come out in favour of assassinating US Citizens living abroad without any judicial process whatsoever (The Al-Awliki case).

So the failure of Obama to publicly condemn Lieberman's petty campaign of censorship and crude threats against Amazon is not at all surprising.

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Wait what? He standardized the Army field manual for interrogation [1] and has been attempting to close Guantanamo [2].

1: http://articles.cnn.com/2009-01-22/politics/obama.interrogat...

2: http://articles.cnn.com/2009-01-22/politics/guantanamo.order...

And then under his administration there was the trial of Omar Khadr. Khadr is a Canadian who was 15 when he was captured in Afghanistan and brought to Guantanamo Bay, tortured and held until this year, when he was sentenced to 40 years in prison, because he apparently killed an American soldier, and because he confessed, even though the confession had been taken under the torture. They convicted a soldier for killing another soldier on the field of combat. And he was a child.

These are not progressive measures.

There is a difference between words and actions.

Right, which is why they're executive orders :)

Guantanamo is in a half-state because Congress invoked NIMBY with the attempts to prosecute detainees in the US. No other country wants to take them in.

Bush was already under pressure from the Army to return to the previous standards, but Obama has not articulated a clear and government wide "no-torture" policy; nor has he brought the US into compliance with it's obligations under the Geneva Conventions.

And "trying to close Guantanamo"? Please. Do or do not, there is no try.

It's incredible that your fallacious statement has 19 upvotes, while m0th's correction of your fallacies only has 2.

http://whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/

Parody of that site: http://whatinthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/

To be (slightly) fair, the assassination policy was created by the Bush administration and merely carried forwards (like so many Bush administration policies). Although I agree he's done zero to stop torture, and backpedaled on his "promises" to close Gitmo and end the war in Iraq.

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