Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Okay, "Stupid" then ...




Earnestly written by the veddy smug and ignorant

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."

Res Ipsa Loquitor
"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."
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" ...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, 


3 comments:

DougM said...

If by "rule of law"
you mean "color of law"
then yeah.

Kristophr said...

Gawd, this is all so silly.

If the US army had discovered Tokyo Rose's location, and dropped a 2000 lb. bomb on her ass, there would have been medals all around for it.

If an American joins an enemy army, and does not want to get blown up or shot, he needs to throw down his weapons and surrender.

THEN he will get a proper trial for treason.

I-RIGHT-I said...

The Left never gets it Right.

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