{"id":1661,"date":"2009-05-14T17:18:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T00:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/2009\/05\/14\/candlelight-stories-withdraws-support-of-president-obama\/"},"modified":"2009-05-14T17:18:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T00:18:30","slug":"candlelight-stories-withdraws-support-of-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/05\/14\/candlelight-stories-withdraws-support-of-president-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Candlelight Stories Withdraws Support of President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama, in a stunning assault on freedom of information, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pubrecord.org\/torture\/905-human-rights-groups-blast-obamas-decision-to-withhold-abuse-photos.html\">decided to object to the planned release of photographs<\/a> showing abuse of prisoners in U.S. military custody in Iraq and Afghanistan.&nbsp; This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/politics\/wire\/sns-ap-us-pentagon-abuse-photos-analysis,1,3088331.story\">action by a U.S. president<\/a> who ran on a platform of openness in government and who promised to change the secretive ways of the Bush administration is unconscionable and supremely disappointing.&nbsp; The U.S. military, in committing acts of torture, committed crimes for which this country itself has prosecuted other nations&#8217; soldiers.&nbsp; Any photos showing these criminal acts are the property of the American people and must be released for full viewing of the facts.&nbsp; The argument that releasing these photos somehow reduces the effectiveness of our troops overseas and endangers them any more than they already are is blatantly ridiculous and stretches credulity.&nbsp; Soldiers are already in harm&#8217;s way because they stand in front of enemy guns.&nbsp; Releasing photos of criminal acts by the military does not change this danger in the slightest.<\/p>\n<p>It is very apparent that Mr. Obama has not brought much change to the White House and would rather continue certain policies of a criminal Bush administration.&nbsp; On this basis, Candlelight Stories completely rejects Mr. Obama and his presidency and will no longer support him.&nbsp; Candlelight Stories is convinced that Mr. Obama is a fairly effective public speaker and not much more.&nbsp; We look forward to a viable Democratic candidate for the 2012 election who is not Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>It is truly unfortunate that this country cannot seem to produce a leader with the capacity to stand up to its own military\/industrial apparatus.&nbsp; It is a very dangerous situation when a nation&#8217;s military tells its president not to release photos of criminal acts and that president is actually fearful enough to listen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=245f6edc-c697-897e-b274-314ec6ebeda1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama, in a stunning assault on freedom of information, has decided to object to the planned release of photographs showing abuse of prisoners in U.S. military custody in Iraq and Afghanistan.&nbsp; This action by a U.S. president who ran on a platform of openness in government and who promised to change the secretive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,160],"tags":[375,374,373],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics","tag-afghanistan","tag-iraq","tag-torture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}