For Cluck

[kalm]

Viva la Obushma!

In related news, the administration of President Obama — whom Andrew Sullivan has repeatedly credited with “presiding over” the Arab Spring — announced on Friday that the U.S. would resume arms sales to the regime in Bahrain, a move that “has incensed opposition activists in the tiny Gulf kingdom who see the deal as a signal that the US supports Bahrain’s repression of opposition protests.” Moreover, “the resumption comes despite Bahrain doing little to sufficiently address” systematic human rights abuses against democratic protesters. But as Sullivan put it in his latest in a long line of Newsweek love letters to the Commander-in-Chief, Obama succeeded last week “the way he always does: leading from behind and playing the long game.” Given that, I’m sure there is some good explanation for how these arms sales to the regime in Bahrain proves he’s more supportive than ever of the Arab Spring and democracy, just as his failed effort to keep troops in Iraq meant He Ended The Iraq War, his unprecedented war on whistleblowers demonstrates his commitment to open government, increased anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world shows he nobly restored America’s standing in the world, and his relentless civilian-killing drone assaults prove the merit of his Nobel Peace Prize. It’s all about the long game.

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[Ivytalk]

Chomsky? CHOMSKY? That fucker has been on my celebrity Pinko deathwatch list for about 50 years. I think he's Greenwald's biological father.

[kalm]

Chomsky? CHOMSKY? That fucker has been on my celebrity Pinko deathwatch list for about 50 years. I think he's Greenwald's biological father.

Whatever, Obushma lover.

[YoUDeeMan]

Chomsky? CHOMSKY? That fucker has been on my celebrity Pinko deathwatch list for about 50 years. I think he's Greenwald's biological father.

I love ya' Ivyman (no homo...and no billable hours allowed)...but please don't attack the messenger when the message is so clear and correct.

OBUSHMA LIVES!

Cap'n Cat, D1B, jellybean, and the other closed-minded, straight lever pulling schleps are silent as usual.

Thanks kalm...I was going to post something similar...but no need to restate the obvious.



Speaking of billable hours, Ivy, do you know anyone who is familiar with the laws that resulted in the current abomination of New Castle County school districts?

[Ivytalk]

Chomsky? CHOMSKY? That **** has been on my celebrity Pinko deathwatch list for about 50 years. I think he's Greenwald's biological father.

I love ya' Ivyman (no homo...and no billable hours allowed)...but please don't attack the messenger when the message is so clear and correct.

OBUSHMA LIVES!

Cap'n Cat, D1B, jellybean, and the other closed-minded, straight lever pulling schleps are silent as usual.

Thanks kalm...I was going to post something similar...but no need to restate the obvious.



Speaking of billable hours, Ivy, do you know anyone who is familiar with the laws that resulted in the current

abomination of New Castle County school districts?

Unfortunately, Cluck, I don't. But if you need a good attorney to deal with an educational issue, PM me.

[Bronco]

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Lefty Chomsky Says Palin Was Right About Obama…

“I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin but when she was making fun of this ‘hopey changey’ stuff, she was right.”

[Seahawks08]

increased anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world shows he nobly restored America’s standing in the world

I agree with everything except this. Since when does the Muslim world become the entire world?

[kalm]

And here's another one for ya Cluck...You better pipe down about our middle east "allies" or else.

There is substantial opposition in both Yemen and the West to the new U.S.-backed Yemeni President, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. Hadi was the long-time Vice President of the Yemeni dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh, and after Saleh finally stepped down last year, Hadi became President as part of an “election” in which he was the only candidate (that little fact did not prevent Hillary Clinton from congratulating Yemen “on today’s successful presidential election” (successful because the U.S. liked the undemocratic outcome)). As it does with most U.S.-compliant dictators in the region, the Obama administration has since been propping up Hadi with large amounts of money and military assistance, but it is now taking a much more extreme step to ensure he remains entrenched in power — a step that threatens not only basic liberties in Yemen but in the U.S. as well:

President Obama plans to issue an executive order Wednesday giving the Treasury Department authority to freeze the U.S.-based assets of anyone who “obstructs” implementation of the administration-backed political transition in Yemen.....

The Post article notes that, as unusual as this Executive Order is, Obama issued a similar one for Somalia in 2009, and it has one other precedent: “In 2006, President George W. Bush issued a similar order regarding Ivory Coast in West Africa.” Newspapers should just create a template that says that for every article: this radical and controversial power that Obama has just seized for himself has its genesis in the executive power and war theories of Bush/Cheney. Except for the power to secretly target U.S. citizens for due-process-free assassination-by-CIA and the manic war on whistleblowers — those are Obama originals — that’s a reliable claim to make, which is the point.

When I first began writing about Bush’s War on Terror abuses, I would sometimes be asked whether America still protects certain liberties more than most other countries, and my answer would always be the same: First Amendment rights in the U.S. of free speech and a free press are still more robust than most other countries in the world. It was one realm which the Bush War on Terror had by and large — not entirely, but by and large — left alone. That is just no longer true. Under Obama, we have seen a series of aggressive erosions of even this right in the name of Terrorism.

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/16/obamas_ ... ch_threat/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[YoUDeeMan]

Obushma at its best!

Obama's Foreign policy: even more right winged than Bush.
Obama's Fiscal policy: spend even more of our tax dollars than Bush.
Obama's friends on Wall Street, Obama's oil friends, Obama going around Congress to get his way: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes...NOT.

Yet jellybean and the regulars are going to pull another straight (no offense, dback) ticket come November.

Obushma...he's everything you hoped he'd be.

[Ivytalk]

Yup, Obummer is just GWB with a Farrakhan haircut.