'The President of the United States appears to have declared peace in the world and war on Americans.' Quadrant, Australia

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6/10/13, "A loud and empty suit in the Chicago style," Quadrant Online, Australia, by Daryl McCann

"The strange case of the 44th President of the United States becomes more curious by the day. From as early as August 2010, according to Mark Steyn, Barack Obama began denouncing “groups with harmless-sounding names like Americans for Prosperity”. Shortly thereafter the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) waged a covert war against any American organisation with “Tea Party”, “Patriot” or “Constitution” in its title. Richard M. Nixon’s dastardly Committee for the Re-election of the President (CREEP) seems rather innocuous compared to the Obama courtiers who set the IRS dogs onto political opponents.

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If the Obama administration has been unremittingly hard on its domestic adversaries, including the demonisation of Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential election campaign, the same cannot not be said of its munificent attitude to Islamist Iran, Islamist Turkey, Islamist Egypt and every Muslim Brotherhood-related entity that profited from the so-called Arab Spring. There was always the hope Obama might learn something about the limitations of his Muslim Outreach after the unfortunate turn of events in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, but not even the Benghazi fiasco seems to have cured The One of his hubris. Only last week he appointed Susan Rice, the Bagdad Bob of Benghazi, as his National Security Adviser. This was, unfortunately, entirely consistent with his decision six months ago to make John Kerry the new Secretary of State....

These days not only are conservatives wondering what game Barack Obama is playing. The editorial in the June 6, 2013, edition of The New York Times accused the Obama administration of having “lost all credibility” on the subject of state surveillance, after reports emerged last week of the National Security Agency and the FBI flagrantly misusing the Patriotic Act. No longer is the Tea Party alone in fearing unwarranted government scrutiny....

The President of the United States appears to have declared peace in the world and war on Americans."

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