Posted on 05/15/2010 7:54:25 AM PDT by tlb
NEW YORK — US actors and liberal intellectuals joined a list to be published Friday of nearly 2,000 people accusing President Barack Obama of allowing human rights violations and war crimes.
"Crimes are crimes, no matter who does them," the statement reads over pictures of Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush due to appear in the New York Review of Books.
The statement, published as a paid advertisement, accuses Obama, who was elected in 2008 with the enthusiastic support of US liberals, of continuing Bush's controversial approach to human rights in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in domestic security.
It takes aim especially at Obama's decision -- reported by US officials -- to authorize the killing of a radical Islamic cleric and US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, who is accused of ties to Al-Qaeda in Yemen.
"In some respects this is worse than Bush," the statement says. "First, because Obama has claimed the right to assassinate American citizens whom he suspects of 'terrorism,' merely on the grounds of his own suspicion or that of the CIA, something Bush never claimed publicly."
Among the signatories are linguist Noam Chomsky, "L.A. Confidential" actor James Cromwell, actor Mark Ruffalo and prominent Bush-era anti-war protestor Cindy Sheehan. By midday Thursday there were 1,804 signatures.
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“US actors, intellectuals protest Obama ‘crimes’ (Worse then Bush)”
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Hopeless malcontents, all of them—they’d b!tch if ya hanged ‘em w/a new rope!
Why didn’t Bush get a “Peace Prize” too?
“liberal intellectuals”...
Oxymoron if there ever was one.
Is there anyway to put that to the test?
Haha!
Smoke screen only to give Obama political cover by seeming more moderate than the reality of his Marxist Fascism.
Does Obama really want to assassinate American citizens? If that is correct, that is scary.
LOL!!
forgive me, gunnyq — don’t know how to post not to staff who posted the original story —
it’s “worse than”, not “worse then” —
hate to see terrible English before I’ve had my coffee.
But I love the story.
forgive me, gunnyq —
don’t know how to post to staff who posted the original story —
it’s “worse than”, not “worse then” —
hate to see terrible English before I’ve had my coffee.
But I love the story.
Lol...
But their displeasure won’t stop them from supporting his re-election.
Intellectuals....
Obama probably considers them in the same light Lenin did...
“They’re not the revolution’s brains, they’re its sh**”
Cindy Sheehan is no intellectual so she must be an actor.
Most if not all will continue to support 0haha financially and vote for him if he runs again.
Cindy is a son hater.
She hates her dead son for not toeing her antiwar, antiAmerica line.
They are just mad because nObama isn’t liberal enough for them.
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