Earnestly
written by the veddy smug and ignorant
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The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama
"You have never spoken of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki.
Though you
probably approved the strike that killed him, you have never mentioned
his name in public. Though he was an American citizen killed by an
American drone, you have kept the circumstances of his death
secret...(?) You have become the Lethal President."
"This is the consuming irony of the Lethal Presidency. You have become
the Lethal President because you are also the Rule-of-Law President.
You have been able to kill our enemies because you have forsworn
waterboarding them. You have become the first president to execute
without trial an American citizen because you hired...lawyers renowned
for their blistering attacks on the legal memos that justified the Bush
administration's use of torture to write the legal memos that justified
the execution without trial of an American citizen." [META
FILTER CONT]
" ...because you are also the Rule-of-Law
President."
is not quite as good as "Axelrod
Calls Romney ‘Most Secretive
Candidate’ Since Nixon," but it's up there. Yes Virginia,
euthanasia,
like lynching ... . Never mind.
By
the way, yes, it does bother me that there's a certain smugness in
calling people smug. I guess it comes down to whether my
observations are better than the smug bastids that pollute my
world,
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