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Hacked Emails Reveal Russian Astroturfing Program
gotfork writes "Quoting The Guardian: 'A pro-Kremlin group runs a network of internet trolls, seeks to buy flattering coverage of Vladimir Putin and hatches plans to discredit opposition activists and media, according to private emails allegedly hacked by a group calling itself the Russian arm of Anonymous.' While a similar program has operated in China for a long time, and some commentators have suggested that a similar program exists in Russia, this is the first confirmation."
No, he never should have been elected. All the stuff that was levied against him back then, that he was inexperienced, had no real voting record ("present!"), that his connections were shady, were all true and smart voters should have picked someone else. There was a whole field of better Democrats running in the 2008 primaries, and every single one of them was better than Obama, but the stupid Democrat voters managed to pick the absolute worst choice of them all. Even Hillary would have been better, and she would have been a corporate whore too, but at least she would have made some kind of attempt at pleasing the Democratic voters. Kucinich would have been the best choice IMO. He actually has a real record of pushing for change and standing up for the voters over corporations and thugs; he was almost assassinated for it while he was mayor of Cleveland and didn't go along with the conspiracy to privatize the power company there.
Instead, the voters picked someone who is even worse than Bush, is even more Republican/fascist/corrupt in his policies than Bush, and what's really shameful is around half of them are so stupid they've completely changed their political positions and turned into fascists themselves so that they don't have to admit to themselves that they made a stupid choice, and they defend him at every opportunity.
As for being "stuck electing Democrats", the problem here is that occasionally, a different Democrat does pop up who shows some promise, but the stupid Democrat voters instead vote for or support a Republican who calls himself a Democrat (like Obama). Why aren't the Dem voters talking about the primaries, for instance? They're perfectly capable of throwing Obama out and electing someone else. There's some guy named Darcy running against him; I haven't looked into him closely but on the face of it he sure looks a lot better than Obama, and actually has some real credentials about pursuing Democrat-friendly policies, but no one ever talks about him, neither in the media (no surprise) or on message boards; instead it's always "toe the party line! we must support Obama at all costs! it doesn't matter what Obama's policies and actions are, we must support him!" The whole thing is disgusting, and simply makes me despise my countrymen.