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madart
Lv 6
madart asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Obama has been in power for a year- what rights has he taken from you?

I keep hearing about how Obama is taking "all our rights" from people here. I want to know what rights he has specifically taken from you. This is not about what you think he is planning on or trying to take but what he already has taken from you. Please site the law or executive order done during the past year.

Update:

Nothing concrete so far. Keep trying.

I might give half credit for Obama not overturning parts of the Patriot act- but since when have liberals just accepted this. It is number 1 or 2 on the list of things we wish he would do differently- but unlike cons we don't expect to agree 100% with our leader.

Update 2:

Mike, the tea party boy, you might have had a point 6 months ago. But he has now been in office with a generous democratic majority in congress. If he was going to take away all our rights you would have thought he would have done more by now??

Update 3:

James- no specific bill or executive orders- sorry not a real answer. Find some and feel free to fix your answer.

And about Fox news- Has it been shut down,censored or fined? Didn't think so. How exactly have they "lost" free speech?

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    None so far.

  • I gave this illustration the other day, I'm going to give it again, because apparently this concept eludes liberals often. If you see behavior that will eventually lead to a problem, you don't wait for the problem or those facilitating that problem to have already achieved it, you do something before it becomes a problem and eventually a catastrophe. Anyone knows if a good farmer see's a Fox in the general vicinity of his chicken coop full of chickens, he doesn't wait til the Fox has one of the chickens in his mouth to do something about it, he goes in and gets his gun before the problem goes to far .

    It's the same with liberals and Barack Obama. I don't have to wait for rights to be taken away to see that this is what liberals and the legislation they are moving through congress is attempting to achieve. Another illustration. If I see a huge bus coming, it's commonsense to know that if I don't move out of the road as a pedestrian that this bus is going to hit and squash me. Anyways, I hope you get the picture. God bless.

  • He has taken/trying to take the following rights:

    Right to bear arms

    Right to free speech (Fox News and Protests)

    Right to not having your President criticize the special olympics

    Right to having a President that knows how many states are in the US

    Right to having a President that keeps his promises

    Right to having a true American president

    Right to not having to watch queers marry eachother

    Right to not having a President that hates the white population

    Right to not having a President that is friends with a domestic terrorist

    Right to not having a President who has an illegal alien as an aunt

  • 1 decade ago

    He's working on it!

    Obama shares a dream with current World Dictators, the Taliban and Al Qaeda for a Post American World.

    Obama said “America is the greatest country in the world, and I hope you will join me in changing that."

    Obama said in his book 'Audacity of Hope', “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction what better place for the Muslins to control our country, than in the office of the President of USA.”

    The American Problems Obama wants to fix are the World’s Problems with America.

    Obamas believes wrecking the American economy will fix the World’s Problems with America.

    Never in the history of the United States has a president and his party worked so actively against the interests of his own people.

    Obama is a pain in the a s s for America and an aid and comfort to America's enemies.

    A person can’t truly love America and Obama too, for to truly love one is to truly hate the other.

    Semper Fi

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  • kelly
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    He's allowing certain tax cuts to expire, which already has and will continue to hurt my business and my personal pocket book. He's also stated he plans on taxing the affluent to pay for health care reform, which will hurt my personal pocket book.

    I'm all for donating to causes, but I didn't spend the last 10 years in blood, sweat, and tears just to give it away to other people.

  • 1 decade ago

    I'm certain the bailouts and cash for clunkers are not going to be paid for by him and Michelle, so I can only conclude that he is waiting to get his Fascist hands on my paycheck. It's taken a lot of energy trying to keep him from throwing seniors under the bus. Do you have other information?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    He's continued the evil Patriot Act of the Bush administration. Now that Obama is president, liberals have mysteriously stopped complaining about it. He's about to condone making my lack of health care illegal.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The right to stop people from using medical marijuana. The right to ignore global warming. The right to start wars in other people's countries.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You don't understand that this health care reform bill is going to make all private sectors go bankrupt and everyone will be on the public option.

    If the government regulates health care, they can regulate your entire life.

    Everything we do is health care related.

  • 1 decade ago

    I didn't know we still had rights after the last guy got done.

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