Have you noticed?
Nov. 21st, 2011 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsEver since local state and city police departments have started using chemical weapons against American citizens, the Obama administration has been awfully quiet about the use of tear gas and pepper spray against protestors in Tahrir Square in Egypt and Marjeh Square in Syria.
A popular meme among the right wing is that the President is "ashamed" of America. At the moment, he ought to be. And he ought to be coming out, outraged at the way we're mistreating our own citizens. If he can jump the gun and defend his buddy Henry Louis Gates, he can fucking come out and defend Americans against being punished without due process of law or fair trial.
Grief. Obama wants me to care about the next election. Mitt Romney is an empty suit, but if Obama doesn't come out and change the tenor of this issue, then so is he.
A popular meme among the right wing is that the President is "ashamed" of America. At the moment, he ought to be. And he ought to be coming out, outraged at the way we're mistreating our own citizens. If he can jump the gun and defend his buddy Henry Louis Gates, he can fucking come out and defend Americans against being punished without due process of law or fair trial.
Grief. Obama wants me to care about the next election. Mitt Romney is an empty suit, but if Obama doesn't come out and change the tenor of this issue, then so is he.
