Recent critique of Obama leaflet

[kerryhall]

Anyone have a good leaflet that is a critique of Obama? Target audience: voting members of the democratic party that are leaning towards being disillusioned with Obama.

I want something to pass out on the street that can push folks in a leftist direction.

[Sea]

Obviously it's not good as-is, but here's something to draw from:
This is a US election that defies logic and brings the nation closer towards a one-party state masquerading as a two-party state.
The Democratic incumbent has surrounded himself with conservative advisors and key figures — many from previous administrations, and an unprecedented number from the Trilateral Commission. He also appointed a former Monsanto executive as Senior Advisor to the FDA. He has extended Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, presided over a spiralling rich-poor gap and sacrificed further American jobs with recent free trade deals.Trade union rights have also eroded under his watch. He has expanded Bush defence spending, droned civilians, failed to close Guantanamo, supported the NDAA which effectively legalises martial law, allowed drilling and adopted a soft-touch position towards the banks that is to the right of European Conservative leaders. Taking office during the financial meltdown, Obama appointed its principle architects to top economic positions. We list these because many of Obama's detractors absurdly portray him as either a radical liberal or a socialist, while his apologists, equally absurdly, continue to view him as a well-intentioned progressive, tragically thwarted by overwhelming pressures. 2008's yes-we-can chanters, dazzled by pigment rather than policy detail, forgot to ask can what? Between 1998 and the last election, Obama amassed $37.6million from the financial services industry, according to the Center for Responsive Politics (http://www.opensecrets.org/). While 2008 presidential candidate Obama appeared to champion universal health care, his first choice for Secretary of Health was a man who had spent years lobbying on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry against that very concept. Hey! You don't promise a successful pub, and then appoint the Salvation Army to run it. This time around, the honey-tongued President makes populist references to economic justice, while simultaneously appointing as his new Chief of Staff a former Citigroup executive concerned with hedge funds that bet on the housing market to collapse. Obama poses something of a challenge to The Political Compass, because he's a man of so few fixed principles.
As outrageous as it may appear, civil libertarians and human rights supporters would have actually fared better under a Republican administration. Had a Bush or McCain presidency permitted extrajudicial executions virtually anywhere in the world ( www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/047/2012/en (http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/047/2012/en) ), expanded drone strikes and introduced the NDAA, the Democratic Party would have howled from the rooftops. Senator Obama the Constitutional lawyer would have been one of the most vocal objectors. Under a Democratic administration however, these far-reaching developments have received scant opposition and a disgraceful absence of mainstream media coverage.
source: http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012

Be careful not to make it accidentally sound pro-republican, that's the last thing we need! ;)

[RedSonRising]

Anyone have a good leaflet that is a critique of Obama? Target audience: voting members of the democratic party that are leaning towards being disillusioned with Obama.

I want something to pass out on the street that can push folks in a leftist direction.

http://i.imgur.com/UbmI4.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cuXXx2tWVRQ/T1rMgJepoYI/AAAAAAAABKM/hea31p8HXmw/s640/Crimes+Are+Crimes+No+Matter+Who+Does+Them%21.jpg
http://6.asset.soup.io/asset/2516/5398_f3ef.gif
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4AasQTN5T2g/TQVau-wCvlI/AAAAAAAAADI/t_ZYB0KWcek/s1600/sellout.jpg
http://www.politifake.org/image/political/1110/campaign-donations-obama-wall-st-ows-occupy-politics-1318242815.jpg

Not sure if these are leaflet-worthy in terms of handing them out, but they may give you ideas you can use to change them around or whatnot. Good luck.

[Book O'Dead]

Anyone have a good leaflet that is a critique of Obama? Target audience: voting members of the democratic party that are leaning towards being disillusioned with Obama.

I want something to pass out on the street that can push folks in a leftist direction.

Before you go pushing people in a different direction you'd better tell us which way you think "left" is.

Simply by calling it "left" don't necessarily make it so.

Also, I wouldn't want to be assisting Mitt Romney get into office. You think Obama's bad?

[kerryhall]

By "leftist" I mean socialist.

Hmm yes it would be shitty if Romney were to get into power, but there has to be some sort of analysis that takes that into consideration.

Those posters are pretty good, but I'm looking for something like a half to full page leaflet, with sources, etc. Surely something like this already exists?

Thanks folks!

[campesino]

I voted for obama wanting government healthcare, All i get is a fine for not buying health insurance

maybe if we vote for obama agin, he'll get the message that we want things to change

republicans or obama? the only difference is one says he wants to compromise, and the other says "my way or the highway."

[RedSonRising]

Those posters are pretty good, but I'm looking for something like a half to full page leaflet, with sources, etc. Surely something like this already exists?

Thanks folks!

Doubt it. Or at least, I haven't seen one. Wouldn't be too hard to make it though. Cite the death toll of his drone strikes, cite the legislation he passed that allows citizens to be detained indefinitely, cite his granting of immunity of banks accused of robo-signing homes away, cite his campaign donations, cite the labor effects of his free trade in the 3rd world, etc.


I voted for obama wanting government healthcare, All i get is a fine for not buying health insurance

maybe if we vote for obama agin, he'll get the message that we want things to change

republicans or obama? the only difference is one says he wants to compromise, and the other says "my way or the highway."

Why would voting him in again send the message we want things to change?

You cannot convince the rich and their puppets to give away their own wealth and power.

[Book O'Dead]

I voted for obama wanting government healthcare, All i get is a fine for not buying health insurance

maybe if we vote for obama agin, he'll get the message that we want things to change

republicans or obama? the only difference is one says he wants to compromise, and the other says "my way or the highway."

I voted for Barack Obama in '08 and will vote for him again this year because I think that there far greater differences between the candidates than you describe.

[eyeheartlenin]

Thanks to RedSonRising, for assembling some really outstanding pieces of political art in his post. I especially like the top one, since it shows what a dead end backing a Democrat is. We really, really need a mass Labor Party, to oppose the business parties. Without a Labor Party, there is no place for us to go.

[Book O'Dead]

Thanks to RedSonRising, for assembling some really outstanding pieces of political art in his post. I especially like the top one, since it shows what a dead end backing a Democrat is. We really, really need a mass Labor Party, to oppose the business parties. Without a Labor Party, there is no place for us to go.

Wow, this is novel!

Since when did the IWW repudiate its stand on the ballot box?

[Welshy]

Wow, this is novel!

Since when did the IWW repudiate its stand on the ballot box?

The poster you responded to is a Trotskyist who is a member of the IWW. Also since when does one members comments on specifics being different from their organizations mean that the organization made a change in policy?

[Book O'Dead]

The poster you responded to is a Trotskyist who is a member of the IWW. Also since when does one members comments on specifics being different from their organizations mean that the organization made a change in policy?

That even more exotic, don't you think? A Trot in the IWW?!?!?

It boggles the mind.

[Welshy]

That even more exotic, don't you think? A Trot in the IWW?!?!?

It boggles the mind.

Is it really that weird, the some of the earliest american trotskyists were in the IWW before the founding of the CPUSA.

[campesino]

Doubt it. Or at least, I haven't seen one. Wouldn't be too hard to make it though. Cite the death toll of his drone strikes, cite the legislation he passed that allows citizens to be detained indefinitely, cite his granting of immunity of banks accused of robo-signing homes away, cite his campaign donations, cite the labor effects of his free trade in the 3rd world, etc.



Why would voting him in again send the message we want things to change?

You cannot convince the rich and their puppets to give away their own wealth and power.

I was thinking of slogans for such a pamphlet, the second one being sarcastic.

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

Anyone have a good leaflet that is a critique of Obama? Target audience: voting members of the democratic party that are leaning towards being disillusioned with Obama.

I want something to pass out on the street that can push folks in a leftist direction.

Well Comrade, i gather a lot of statistics: The New York Times reported two days ago that 69%(!) of Americans are against the War in Afghanistan. Don't forget to mention the exponentially increased drone strikes of the Obama Administration in Pakistan and using them legally now against American citizens. Don't forget to mention that Iran is the third largest oil producer on the planet and is being sanctioned by the US and EU governments, on claims that the US Central Intelligent Agency says are an impossibility for the next five years [nuclear breakout capability for Iran]; already a harsh act of War strangling the Iranian people, democracy and labor movement in Iran. Warn of a war with Iran.

But main thing for us leftists needs to be to propagate these facts, hint "Inequality, where does it come from?":
Since 1979, American Workers' Productivity (that quantitative amount of goods and services that the worker gives to his boss) has increased 85%. But what happened to american workers real wages, what the boss gives the workers for their labor? They have been stagnant, 0% growth since the 70's while working the same weekly hours as in 1945.

The FED just released some statistics about the American economy: The Median Wealth of Americans has decreased by a whooping 40% in the last four years, the median income decreased by 7% in the same time.
But what about Corporate profits? Well, 2010 spelled the year with the biggest profits in US history.

Use these statistics, especially the one about workers productivity, this is central. We need to educate about where inequality comes from, from the autocratic capitalist workplace, of class relations of production and their inevitable outcome (inequality), where the majority of people have no say over the wealth that they produce for society; convince them of communism.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

I voted for Barack Obama in '08 and will vote for him again this year because I think that there far greater differences between the candidates than you describe.
Like what? What are these huge differences between Mitt Romney and Obama? And why should these things be used as an excuse against a shift to the left for disillusioned Obama supporters?

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

Like what? What are these huge differences between Mitt Romney and Obama? And why should these things be used as an excuse against a shift to the left for disillusioned Obama supporters?


Well, i agree that there might not be a significant policy difference between the two candidates, but look at the two parties. We know that a large economic global crisis will happen within the next five years, how would the two parties in America react? Well, assume the Republican Party win this election and there is a crisis in 2014, we know the Democratic Party would play the social capitalist opposition and might succeed in another biurgeois counter-revolution such as in "The New Deal". But assume The Democratic Party wins with Obama again this year and a crisis happens under their supposed "left" government? The Republican opposition would constantly hammer the Democratic Party to cut "the deficit" i.e. cut social programs that help the poor and would hence make the crisis even worse leading to the more reactionary opposition getting voted in 2016 leading to even greater burdens on workers.

You see, the revolutionary left needs to hope that the (in words only) left (capitalist) party wins now and has government under a crisis because then a vacuum is open on the left and we can denounce the ruling social bourgeois party as counter-revolutionary.

[shinjuku dori]

What happened to Ross Parrot?

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Well just look how the crisis under Bush/Obama was handled. For all of the talk of small government, free-markets, etc, Bush was doing exactly what Obama did when he got into office. In fact it could be seen as just a continuation of bush's policy. And what has Obama done under his administration? He's actually proposed austerity to us. My point being that It doesn't really matter who will get into office, the bidding if the capitalists is going to be done either way. If there is a need for a New Deal type thing there will probably be one whether it's a democrat in office or a republican.

[shinjuku dori]

Republican Party ended slavery in America.

[Book O'Dead]

Like what? What are these huge differences between Mitt Romney and Obama? And why should these things be used as an excuse against a shift to the left for disillusioned Obama supporters?

If I had had any illusions about Obama to begin with I'd agree.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

If I had had any illusions about Obama to begin with I'd agree.But please explain these huge differences between them and why it's worth supporting Obama over Mitt.

[shinjuku dori]

Who named their son after a baseball glove?

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Who named their son after a baseball glove?

To be fair his real first name is Willard...

[Book O'Dead]

But please explain these huge differences between them and why it's worth supporting Obama over Mitt.


Presently, and if you take into consideration the recent SCOTUS decision on the ACA, there are approximately 30 million differences between Obama and Romney.

[shinjuku dori]

To be fair his real first name is Willard...

That's even worse! :laugh:

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Presently, and if you take into consideration the recent SCOTUS decision on the ACA, there are approximately 30 million differences between Obama and Romney.

So let's not try and turn people to revolutionary politics because a shitty healthcare law was passed that Mitt promises to repeal(since when did a politicians word become trusted here anyways, why would he really do that anyways)?