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

[alice wellintown]

Bradbury, the drone, like the house, after all the soft rain, all the
poetry, the tea cups, the ices, the Elliot preludes, the shadows of flesh
made vapor, the house drones on.
August 2026, the transfiguration
On Wednesday, September 26, 2012, Bled Welder wrote:

> The great thing about drones is the word.  Take some high-tech piece of
> machinery that nobody really understands how it even works, it comes in
> without any human endeavour, and, is it silent? probably, and it wipes
> people off the planet, eliminates, explodes, fucks things up to
> kingdom-come--and what do we call it?  What word do we attach to it?  *
> Drone.*  You could spend all afternoon goofing around with that word.
>  Who knows, maybe somewhere inside you might even strike some truth.
>
> It is my opinion these days that *truth* is some type of higher order of
> humor.
>
> And it drones on, and on, and on, across the droniverse....
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:52 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'fqmorris at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> Do you really care?
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:44 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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.
>> >
>> > Do you actually believe that?  Or is that menippean satire?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 2012/9/26 alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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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