{"id":519884,"date":"2010-04-07T22:22:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T02:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2010-04-07T22:22:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T02:22:43","slug":"obama-is-a-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519884","title":{"rendered":"Obama is a Cowboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2010\/04\/wantedposter.jpg\" alt=\"Old West in the Obama Administration\" width=300 \/><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve said I was going to lay off Obama until he had a chance to get settled in the job. I was easy on Bush until Iraq. But, fair is fair. Today, in the NY Times, it was reported that Obama issued a GW Bush like Executive Order calling for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/07\/world\/middleeast\/07yemen.html\"  >the killing of a US Citizen<\/a>, Anwar al-Awlaki. In effect, an Old West Wanted Poster, Dead or Alive.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m disappointed that I have to write this as I believed Obama had some grasp of the meaning of &#8220;rule of law&#8221; due to his education. But I guess it&#8217;s necessary to point out that this order is pretty much equivalent to murder and goes far beyond the powers a Presidential Administration should even think about, yet alone exercise. If this was Bush (I&#8217;m beginning to wonder on a number of these types of boneheaded moves if it&#8217;s simply a carry forward of the last administration) I would excoriate him for taking such a stance.<\/p>\n<p>Well Mr. Obama, it&#8217;s your turn in the barrel. Al-Awlaki is a bad guy, I&#8217;ll stipulate that. But independent of his action, he is a citizen and should be accorded due process, charged with Treason perhaps? And then given a chance to defend himself as a citizen of the United States of America. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re supposed to stand for. That&#8217;s the oath you swore, to defend and uphold the Constitution. You&#8217;re failing to do so in this case and if this order were to be carried out, you should face the full force of the law as a consequence.<\/p>\n<p>Do yourself and the rest of the country a favor, stay out of the cowboy business. It&#8217;s not befitting a President. Try fulfilling some of your campaign promises: Close Gitmo, Exit Iraq, Wind down Afghanistan, and put some focus on the home front. In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, our country could use some attention and leadership&#8230;&#8230;.Back to my vacation. Yuck, I hate this stuff &#8211; it sucks to see.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MikeHardingsBlog?a=mA9A1lvUPxw:mW7mtoxx3XI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MikeHardingsBlog?i=mA9A1lvUPxw:mW7mtoxx3XI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MikeHardingsBlog?a=mA9A1lvUPxw:mW7mtoxx3XI:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MikeHardingsBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MikeHardingsBlog\/~4\/mA9A1lvUPxw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said I was going to lay off Obama until he had a chance to get settled in the job. I was easy on Bush until Iraq. But, fair is fair. Today, in the NY Times, it was reported that Obama issued a GW Bush like Executive Order calling for the killing of a US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":722,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}