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Obama’s “Dirty Wars” — and a soiled presidency
Salon ^ | 6/9/13 | Andrew O'Hehir

Posted on 06/09/2013 7:56:54 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey

This is what it’s come to for Barack Obama: Reality has sunk in for many Americans, who at last understand that the guy we elected on the naive expectation that he would undo the excesses of the Bush-Cheney national security state has instead made them much worse. It will be difficult, if not impossible, for Obama to escape this legacy now. He is the drone president, the assassination president, the domestic-surveillance president, whose entire administration has a professionalized passion for secrecy that makes the low-rent paranoids of the Nixon White House look like Keystone Kops. I did not suspect that I would ever again find an occasion to quote a Sarah Palin gag line, but hey: How is that hopey-changey stuff workin’ out for ya?

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LOL the Left is in a tizzy over Obama getting caught being the least transparent admin in history.... LOL can't make this stuff up....
1 posted on 06/09/2013 7:56:54 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey
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To: Typical_Whitey

Wow. Hard to believe the hard-hard-left Salon has come down on Obammie like a billion tons of bricks.


2 posted on 06/09/2013 8:03:57 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Typical_Whitey
He is the drone president, the assassination president, the domestic-surveillance president, whose entire administration has a professionalized passion for secrecy that makes the low-rent paranoids of the Nixon White House look like Keystone Kops

Wow, a lefty actually gets it. I see a flock of pigs flying over my house as I write.

3 posted on 06/09/2013 8:06:14 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
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To: Typical_Whitey; a fool in paradise

Wow, if we don’t watch out they’re gonna cancel Bammy’s Sainthood!


4 posted on 06/09/2013 8:07:33 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Typical_Whitey

Any adult that couldn’t see through a guy who (’s handlers) got Jim Ryan’s (the usurper’s election opponent) court-sealed divorce records unsealed to be able to leak sufficient, rumored, embarrassing information to win an election Barry never would’ve otherwise won, just like the much grander scale fraud in his election against Romney, just doesn’t value thinking.

HF


5 posted on 06/09/2013 8:12:04 PM PDT by holden (Alter or abolish it yet?)
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To: Typical_Whitey
Paragraph 8, which begins with "“What I think is dangerous is that because Obama is who he is, an incredibly brilliant man who has the trust of the overwhelming majority of liberals — and probably a significant number of traditional conservatives"

Seriously, mega projectile vomit inducing stuff. This writer owes me a new keyboard.

6 posted on 06/09/2013 8:12:11 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Typical_Whitey

It takes the idiots a little longer to catch on.

But, by then, it may be too late.

That’s why they’re idiots.


7 posted on 06/09/2013 8:12:41 PM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: HerrBlucher
The center has held.

Meanwhile, the left and the right are having conniption fits.

8 posted on 06/09/2013 8:14:02 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Typical_Whitey

Gag all you want, Andrew, but she was RIGHT, you freak.

9 posted on 06/09/2013 8:16:05 PM PDT by kcvl
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” and probably a significant number of traditional conservatives”

In his dreams...


10 posted on 06/09/2013 8:18:33 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Typical_Whitey

Buyer’s remorse


11 posted on 06/09/2013 8:18:55 PM PDT by kanawa
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To: Typical_Whitey

BUYERS_REMORSE_PING!


12 posted on 06/09/2013 8:19:09 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: Typical_Whitey
“What (Sen. Ron) Wyden (D-Oregon) was saying to me,” says Scahill, “was that whether it’s the kill program or it’s domestic surveillance or it’s certain secret aspects of the Patriot Act, there are laws that the American people can go online and read, and reasonable people will interpret those in relatively the same way. And then there’s a second set of laws, which consist of the way the administration has interpreted what those laws say. So what he’s saying to me is that on any of these issues, if I could tell you how they’ve interpreted what you believe a law to say, it would shock you.”
13 posted on 06/09/2013 8:20:04 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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What is this guy smoking? Obama trusted by "a significant number of traditional conservatives"? Probably by close to zero (if you exclude people with dementia).

It's amazing how keeping all of your school records sealed will make people believe that you are brilliant.

And of course Obama was a "constitutional law professor" at the University of Chicago, despite having never written a scholarly article in the field of law. But he did write a fictionalized autobiography. Or at least put his name to it.

14 posted on 06/09/2013 8:22:53 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Typical_Whitey

As you sew so shall you reap. All there is for you
to do now, Salon, is to wait for your next lefturd savior,
whomever she may be.


15 posted on 06/09/2013 8:25:13 PM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: Typical_Whitey

Journalists are SUPPOSED to be first with news, but they’re only now coming to conclusions that we held SIX YEARS AGO.

Let’s say there was a pizzeria so slow in serving that you could MAKE your own pizza faster and more deliciously than it took them to cook up your order:

Would you keep on eating there...?

In 5 years there will be NO such thing as any of the major networks —they’ll be like Blockbuster video, or buggy-whip makers, shells of their former selves, and then gone altogether.

Presstitues didn’t go into reporting to report, their goal is to participate, and TAKE A SIDE. To advocate, to control, to mold the flow of events.

Joe 6-pack has that figured out.


16 posted on 06/09/2013 8:28:39 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: HerrBlucher

And they are approaching mine, I can see them on the weather radar.

Roller coaster is not just a wacky scary fun or fun scary ride for a summer evening.

It’s a metaphor.


17 posted on 06/09/2013 8:39:49 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Typical_Whitey

Operations like Slate enabled Obama. They are as much to blame as Obama.


18 posted on 06/09/2013 9:01:10 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: holden
"Any adult that couldn’t see through a guy who (’s handlers) got Jim Ryan’s (the usurper’s election opponent) court-sealed divorce records unsealed to be able to leak sufficient, rumored, embarrassing information to win an election Barry never would’ve otherwise won, just like the much grander scale fraud in his election against Romney, just doesn’t value thinking."

It was worse than that. Before the Ryan divorce papers were illegally dumped 9 weeks before the general election, there was Obama's opponent in the Democrat primary, Blair Hull, who was the pushed out of the race with selectively (and illegally) leaked court documents.

19 posted on 06/09/2013 9:06:03 PM PDT by cookcounty (IRS = Internal Revenge Service.)
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To: Typical_Whitey

And every time we get the “Bush started it all” jazz, we should say “But Obama has taken it even further”.


20 posted on 06/09/2013 9:45:55 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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