If the current President of the U.S were a conservative Republican, the progressives in this country would be up in arms and calling for impeachment.

So many campaign promises broken.

On the domestic front, the one that irks me most is his reversal on Single Payer Health Care. His excuse is that it never would have gotten through the House and Senate. He never gave it a chance, not one proponent of Single Payer was invited to any of the meetings on health care including his personal physician of many years.

The Office of Management and Budget and a majority of doctors feel the best way to have universal health care at the lowest cost is Single Payer or an extension of Medicare for all. Why are we smarter than England, France, Canada, Germany, Iran, Bolivia, Venezuela and many more who offer free medical care to their citizens. The administrative cost in our system of health care is around 38% using private health care providers. Medicare's costs are less than 8%.

Why? Because there is neither profit, nor huge salaries for executives. There should not be profit in health care. It is a right of all.

But I digress.

According to James Goodale, the general counsel to the N.Y. Times during the Pentagon Papers crackdown, Obama is almost worse than Nixon and, if successful in prosecuting Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, he will surpass Nixon and succeed in quashing the First Amendment where Nixon failed.

Mr. Goodale is a leading expert on the First Amendment and has just published a book entitled "Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers and Other Battles"

By spying on the AP, which Obama has just done, he is attempting to limit a reporter's ability to keep sources confidential which will have vast and very disturbing consequences. If people in government cannot safely report wrongdoings by the government, we become very close to an authoritarian regime. Do you want to live in a country where the government, especially the Executive branch, can be autonomous and not responsible to any other body.

During the Pentagon Papers era, Henry Kissinger called the leaker, Daniel Ellsberg, the "most dangerous man in America," for stopping a disastrous war. Obama's Ellsbergs are Bradley Manning and Julian Assange.

The same rhetoric is being used now concerning Manning as was used against Ellsberg,… concern about national security, stealing classified documents, etc.etc.

The truth is that no classified document were stolen by Manning and released to Assange and no one, even by the Pentagon's own admission, has been harmed by the releases.

Reporting a war crime is not a crime!

The Obama administration has invoked the Espionage Act three times more that all past administrations combined. The far-reaching effects of the Espionage Act are extremely dangerous. The administration's interpretation would mean the end of the way national security journalism is reported in the United States.

The Pentagon, Department of Justice and the administration are saying that if any document the government claims to be classified is given to a journalist who then makes any part public, that person has committed espionage and the person who gave it to him or her is guilty of espionage as well.

Even Nixon was not smart enough to think of that angle, but the Obama administration has and that is why it is imperative that we be aware of the dangers that lurk from this administration.

This is clearly an attempt to stifle whilstleblowers and prevent good citizens from revealing criminal acts perpetrated by those in power. How many more would have died in Viet Nam if Daniel Ellsberg had been treated the way Bradley Manning has been treated, locked up in solitary for over a year and a half and denied legal counsel.

And now, the prosecution is trying to conduct the trial in secret with no reporters, all the name of "National Security."

Scary to think what the United States has become with Obama at the helm.