Change you can believe in

Obama signed to extend the Patriot Act for 4 more years.

Did you guys really think he would be any different than Bush?

No

*sigh*
Hope springs eternal in the human breast...

Obama has show to be thoroughly anti-terrorist and in bed with the military industrial complex. That being said he's the best guy we got, sadly.

and that 3rd act of the patriot act is fucking bullshit. It says that 'lone wolf' loners can be spied on even though they don't have direct relations with terrorism- but then there is an undefined term right before it that says 'foreign' citizens. Okay, yeah fucking right:

My friend and I are being spied on, and we live in the west of the United States. There are white vans all over my town and helicopters flying in the sky, but we aren't getting many answers. I never noticed this until about two weeks ago when there was a helicopter outside of my house for a few hours going in circles. Everything is happening too fast, we're very unsure of what to do, because we don't know what's happening.

 http://articles.ocregister.com/2011-05-03/news/29509960_1_flight-patterns-address-noise-concerns-flight-paths

I can't find anything else about them, but I do NOT live in that city! I saw helicopters landing in an area my car could not access to. There are towers being built everywhere and it gets very loud at night, some of these towers are behind fenced areas with unmarked buildings. (I saw something on youtube that mentioned former 'blackwater' [now XE] bases being in southern and northern CA but I don't know how true that is...) There is a National Gaurd base in the park very close, but that place is pretty open! (unless it goes underground.) and I don't see the helicopters land or leave from there.

BEWARE OF CITIZEN SPY BRIGADES... They are already in my town. All of our anonymity is at risk.

>>4
No, he's the worst because he convinces tools like you to follow him just because he is black and "progressive".

>>6

I don't support Obama because he's black, nor do I do so because I believe he is progressive.  Obama is not a progressive leftist, he's a pro-business centrist.

  He has proposed good plans for jump-starting the economy and has actually met some success in the face of an overwhelmingly obstructionist minority party.  He supports middle eastern democracy and does so without the expensive and long process of occupation and nation building (i.e. help the people in their revolution then allow them to take over).  He got a bill passed through congress to reform our broken healthcare system, the bill's not perfect but it's a good start.

  He revitalized the car industry with cash for clunkers and promoted investment in alternative energy, as a result of which wind power is now the second cheapest fuel source in some parts of the country, beaten only by natural gas which we can only see losing ground in the future to wind.   Extracting natural gas is costly, it's only so cheap now because nobody bothered with it before and the price of other conventional fuel sources has risen.

He does have his faults though, extending the patriot act, giving a federal execution to a man without trial.  Failing to close gitmo, no support for marijuana legalization even for medicinal use, letting businesses not pay taxes (although that happens under every president, it's still not the change he campaigned on) and other things I can't even think about. 

My point is that he's not perfect, no president or politician ever is.  However he has clearly done a lot of good for this nation and his administration has been a net positive for the nation.