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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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To: holden

For the record I believe it was Jack, not Jim, Ryan.


21 posted on 06/09/2013 9:48:08 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Typical_Whitey; MestaMachine

Oh this is all too funny...From Salon.com article:

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,.......he is 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?


22 posted on 06/09/2013 9:54:27 PM PDT by caww
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To: Typical_Whitey

The Emperor: Young fool... Only now, at the end, do you understand...


23 posted on 06/09/2013 10:01:18 PM PDT by Arthurio
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To: Verginius Rufus

This thing about Obama being a Constitutional law professor absolutely slays me. He was a freakin’ adjunct professor! Not even tenure track! My husband is in academia (a full professor) and so I get to hear the scuttlebutt on stuff like that ... and believe me, a mere adjunct professor is the lowest of the low on the academic totem pole.


24 posted on 06/09/2013 11:46:21 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
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To: catnipman

The dopey Liberals can ignore 5 years of utter failure, but read an email or listen into a phone call, it’s over.


25 posted on 06/10/2013 12:12:05 AM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: Typical_Whitey

Andrew O’Hehir (the author) is an extraordinarily courageous man, because now the IRS will audit him, the EPA will fine him, the DHS will surveil him, and a drone may actually kill him.


26 posted on 06/10/2013 12:18:10 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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To: Typical_Whitey

SoMEDAY the American public, stupid as they are, will finally understand how CORRUPT and EVIL this Administration is!!


27 posted on 06/10/2013 2:16:26 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: HerrBlucher
Couldn't resist..
28 posted on 06/10/2013 2:19:13 AM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising.... Civil War II)
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To: Typical_Whitey

Meanwhile, this just in from the Nobel Peace Prize committee...

(Crickets)


29 posted on 06/10/2013 7:33:43 AM PDT by SargeK
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To: HerrBlucher

That meme should be repeated loudly and often with the caveat that Democrats in general have emboldened Obama to do these things...


30 posted on 06/10/2013 1:43:22 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Remember America "The FIsh Rots From the Head Down")
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