Is Barack Obama a Tory? Or another fascist prick who murders people trying to rescue drone victims.
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 15:52:04 CDT 2012
Do you really care?
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:44 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Drone away, Mr President. The president, like a good sherrif, has
>> bodies strewn across main street. Many of the them are innocent people
>> who got caught in the crossfire, but a lot of them are bad men who
>> need to be stopped.
>>
>> This cowboy theme works. Obama is more like Reagan everyday. And the
>> people, even those who disagreed with him on all manner of things and
>> understood that he was naive and uninformed, liked Reagan enough.
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> Do you actually believe that? Or is that menippean satire?
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> 2012/9/26 alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>:
>> How can the administration stop killing Afghans? This has been the
>> central question this administration has grappled with. How can it
>> avoid the British, Soviet, and Bush practice of killing the Afghan
>> people with the massive weapons it can deploy from the sky? How can
>> the administration reverse the damage of the sexual humiliation
>> interrogation tactics used to gather information? How can the
>> administration quickly learn from the many different peoples that live
>> in the country, and how can it use this knowledge to improve
>> conditions and relations? How can it navigate and negotiate these
>> troubled waters?
>>
>> It can not. It can, of course, declare an end to the wars and get out.
>> This is what Obama plans to do after he is re-elected. Why didn't he
>> do it in his first term? He wouldn't get a second term if he did.
>>
>> Politicians need to stay in office to get anything done. Obama
>> understnas this. The drones have protected him and his allies. Now it
>> time to change the plan.
>>
>> The president is not a Tory; he is a politician; he must deal with a
>> very difficult problem and he is doing a fair job of it, but he must
>> keep his job to do any good at all. This is the reality.
>>
>> The stupid economy is on the mend; the Republican challanger is on the
>> ropes. Obama may disappoint those who are naive or idealistic, but
>> pragmatists accept him as the best option.
>>
>> Drone away, Mr President. The president, like a good sherrif, has
>> bodies strewn across main street. Many of the them are innocent people
>> who got caught in the crossfire, but a lot of them are bad men who
>> need to be stopped.
>>
>> This cowboy theme works. Obama is more like Reagan everyday. And the
>> people, even those who disagreed with him on all manner of things and
>> understood that he was naive and uninformed, liked Reagan enough.
>>
>> Drone away. My babies are not dying and my sons in uniform are safer
>> when the drones drop their load.
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