Is Barack Obama a Tory? Or another fascist prick who murders people trying to rescue drone victims.

[alice wellintown]

The americans who vote support the drone attacks; moreover, the
fence-sitters, and especially white males, count this a close second to the
economy in the election. Call them stupid, but they prefer drones to troops
and surges and even diplomacy. Even drone killing of Americans who make the
capture or kill list gets broad support. Obama killed obl; he gets credit
for it. It was. Essay and risky and expensive. Drones, while not surgical,
are much cleaner; Americans can care less how many people over there are
killed, but can count the us body bags. The bag count is acceptable. The
count of others, even kids, is not a consideration; when is the last time a
foreign innocent murdered by a sitting president was honored at your local
stadium?
On Wednesday, September 26, 2012, David Morris wrote:

> Do you really care?
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:44 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> 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.
> >
> > Do you actually believe that?  Or is that menippean satire?
> >
> >
> >
> > 2012/9/26 alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com <javascript:;>>:
> >> 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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