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05-25-2012, 10:25 AM
http://www.policymic.com/articles/8808/4-myths-about-barack-obama-you-probably-didn-t-know-you-bought-in-to/latest_articles
Barack Obama is credited and blamed for many sensational actions. Opponents accuse the president of destroying the economy single-handily, while supporters lavishly praise Obama for what they perceived as taking on the big Wall Street executives.
These Americans, however, are clueless and should abstain from spreading disinformation based on intellectual fallacies. The media’s abandonment of informing the public has created an alarming amount of sensationalism, or the appeal to emotion, convoluting the “news.” Its effects on the populous are pronounced. Obsession with rhetoric has effectively clouded the president’s actual policy agenda. Alarmingly, the myths reach the point where they are simply contradictory.
America has astonishing levels of apprehension towards deductive logic, instead using emotional fallacies to intellectually deceive him or herself to protect the mind from any attempt at productive debating or rational conversation. To sift through all of the subjective emotional appeals, I will use nothing further than an objective measurement that a president’s actions can be measured by, and thus be deemed objective actions.
Setting the agenda and policy direction is objectively illustrated when the president uses his authority to set executive orders. Hereby he can clearly, without obstruction, move and enforce a policy agenda. Additionally, the president can influence legislation in Congress either by submitting his own bill for voting. Post-legislation, he may veto bills that pass both levels of Congress, or alternatively sign bills that come to his desk, endorsing the bill. From this, actions can be measured up against common perceptions about the president’s policy-making. Therefore, this leaves out speeches, campaign speeches, editorials, and other immeasurable claims.
Contradiction #1): Habeas Corpus -- Common False Perceptions: Obama is “pro” habeas corpus, and against indefinite detention, and is closing down Guantanamo Bay (GTMO).
Obama has plenty of sound-bytes speaking about restoration of Habeas Corpus in the 2008 presidential campaign. However, objective evidence has illustrated that policy actions resulted in the exact opposite effect. After an initial executive order “promised” to close down GTMO detainment centers in 2009, that promise expired and has “evolved” to now be "misunderstood." On January 7, 2011, Obama signed the 2011 Defense Authorization Bill, which places restrictions on the transfer of Guantanamo prisoners to the mainland or to other foreign countries, thus impeding the closure of the detention facility.
He recently stated in a press release that he would not allow Guantanamo Bay to close because “he does not support terrorist actions.” Additionally, Obama demanded the inclusion of the sub-section giving the president power to revoke habeas corpus for citizens with the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act. Obama specifically requested American citizens’ exemption for Americans be removed.
Reality illustrates the president has proactively sought to remove protections of Habeas Corpus from both American citizens and foreign detainees.
Read the rest of the article at the link above. Educate the electorate, spread it.
Barack Obama is credited and blamed for many sensational actions. Opponents accuse the president of destroying the economy single-handily, while supporters lavishly praise Obama for what they perceived as taking on the big Wall Street executives.
These Americans, however, are clueless and should abstain from spreading disinformation based on intellectual fallacies. The media’s abandonment of informing the public has created an alarming amount of sensationalism, or the appeal to emotion, convoluting the “news.” Its effects on the populous are pronounced. Obsession with rhetoric has effectively clouded the president’s actual policy agenda. Alarmingly, the myths reach the point where they are simply contradictory.
America has astonishing levels of apprehension towards deductive logic, instead using emotional fallacies to intellectually deceive him or herself to protect the mind from any attempt at productive debating or rational conversation. To sift through all of the subjective emotional appeals, I will use nothing further than an objective measurement that a president’s actions can be measured by, and thus be deemed objective actions.
Setting the agenda and policy direction is objectively illustrated when the president uses his authority to set executive orders. Hereby he can clearly, without obstruction, move and enforce a policy agenda. Additionally, the president can influence legislation in Congress either by submitting his own bill for voting. Post-legislation, he may veto bills that pass both levels of Congress, or alternatively sign bills that come to his desk, endorsing the bill. From this, actions can be measured up against common perceptions about the president’s policy-making. Therefore, this leaves out speeches, campaign speeches, editorials, and other immeasurable claims.
Contradiction #1): Habeas Corpus -- Common False Perceptions: Obama is “pro” habeas corpus, and against indefinite detention, and is closing down Guantanamo Bay (GTMO).
Obama has plenty of sound-bytes speaking about restoration of Habeas Corpus in the 2008 presidential campaign. However, objective evidence has illustrated that policy actions resulted in the exact opposite effect. After an initial executive order “promised” to close down GTMO detainment centers in 2009, that promise expired and has “evolved” to now be "misunderstood." On January 7, 2011, Obama signed the 2011 Defense Authorization Bill, which places restrictions on the transfer of Guantanamo prisoners to the mainland or to other foreign countries, thus impeding the closure of the detention facility.
He recently stated in a press release that he would not allow Guantanamo Bay to close because “he does not support terrorist actions.” Additionally, Obama demanded the inclusion of the sub-section giving the president power to revoke habeas corpus for citizens with the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act. Obama specifically requested American citizens’ exemption for Americans be removed.
Reality illustrates the president has proactively sought to remove protections of Habeas Corpus from both American citizens and foreign detainees.
Read the rest of the article at the link above. Educate the electorate, spread it.