Comment by klyrs
5 years ago
I don't know about you but I voted for Obama and regretted it when this happened [1]:
> National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, Pub.L. 112–81. This NDAA contains several controversial sections (see article), the chief being §§ 1021–1022, which affirm provisions authorizing the indefinite military detention of civilians, including U.S. citizens, without habeas corpus or due process, contained in the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), Pub.L. 107–40.
Not to mention his failures to uphold the principles that he ran on: gitmo, whistleblower protections (vis a vis Manning, Asange and Snowden), massacres of civilians ("drone strikes"), etc.
Just because you haven't been watching, doesn't mean that this hasn't outraged the people who do. All of that stuff was covered by NPR at the time, so it's not like any of it was a secret.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorizati...
I have been fairly outraged for the past twenty years. Most people have not.
And to my credit, I haven't actually voted or supported the candidate who went on to be president since 2000.