Obama comes around, Romney right about Russia? Heh.
The hours are short until Mr. Obama is put out to pasture, legging it away from a legacy that is, shall we say, not the greatest. Some will miss him, some will idolize him, others will blame him for the next four years of potential horror and CHANGE, leaving behind his drone killing battalions at the disposal of DT.
The great Kabuki-ist and publicity suck will still most probably maybe be in the Corporate news, so no need to fear he will fade away like Bush has. No, on the contrary, I predict he will do everything possible to be on every talk show he can. My bet is that he is addicted to attention and will not 'go quietly into that good night.'
Mr. Obama can talk purty, no doubt about it, but what he DOES is key to seeing what he has accomplished. His legacy? Meh.
Some are clamoring for him to take some dramatic action against Russia.
The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming !!! Pfffttt
Seems any excuse will be pushed forward in attempt to distract and cover up the failure of the Democratic Party to choose a candidate who could win, the tragic losses at the state and local level while he was Leader of the Party. I predict that any excuse will be tried to deflect from his part of responsibility for Trump winning the election.
What's hilarious to me just now it that the US is the acknowledged world's leader in political meddling, as well as the 'poutrage' leader when someone else tries it here.
Remember during 2012 when Romney tried to make an issue of the Russians being a threat and Obama poo pooed it? Apparently he has come around to Romney's way of thinking on this.
Opinion
December 12, 2016 6:18 AM
Obama mocked Romney over Russia, but now he blames Russia for TrumpColumnist Andrew Malcolm writes: In 2012, President Barack Obama mocked Mitt Romney for suggesting Russia was our top geopolitical foe. Now it’s expedient for…
McClatchyDCRead more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article120314663.html#storylink=cpy
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That will be a major legacy of Obama’s 2,922-day presidency. No consequences. Solyndra. Fast and Furious. You can keep your doctor. And Clinton’s national security violations, among many.
Now the Washington Post, which still can’t believe Trump won, reports that the CIA has concluded Russia was actively trying to help the billionaire win. Because, clearly, without communist subversions Americans would never elect him on their own.
Maybe the Russians did do something. That’s not the issue.
Besides complaining publicly, has the Obama administration done something, anything, besides whine about being victimized by hackers? Maybe take responsibility and tighten security?
And why did alleged hacking only bother Obama after a Republican victory, not his own two?
In 2012, Obama mocked Mitt Romney for suggesting Russia was our top geopolitical foe. Now it’s expedient for the Democrat and minions to ensure the focus is on Moscow as foe. After all this time and those breaches, and only in his final meaningless month, does Obama order a report (which will be largely secret) allegedly to explore the allegedly Russian threats.
Because, see, that way the public discussion won’t be where it belongs: On how, after eight long years under Barack Obama the cybersecurity of America’s government and even the president’s own political party remain so pathetically vulnerable?
Again, no consequences.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article120314663.html#storylink=cpy
Heh. I am more interesting in transparency that I am worried about hacking and phishing. I am more interested in peace than trumped up geopolitical enemy creation as cover for enriching the War Profiteers and Climate Serial Killers.
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Is it all fake news?
Probably...and here's some more
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/12/uk-diplomat-ive-met-dnc-wikileak...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Could be who knows. This is the weirdest
Wow, what a country!
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
But before Bolton was blaming the Bernie Bros...
" In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy "
Let's face it: Bernie bros and the females who wanted
to be "where the boys are" (as noted by an alleged feminist), are responsible for all evil in the world--every bit of it. Cthulhu, finding himself with no further purpose, committed suicide because because of them. On top of that, Republicans were frustrated because they could find nothing worse to say about them than Democrats were saying. It's horrifying, I tells ya, HORRIFYING!
Obama's Legacy - a beginning list(not in order)
Presided over the rout of Democrats at federal, state and local levels.
Sucked up to Wall St; Shat on Main St.
Allowed Wall St to pick his cabinet
Presided over the worst oil tragedy and worst cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico, then issued more drilling permits there.
Is the only president to be at war for entire two term tenure.
Gitmo is open; so is Torture U. in GA
Implemented a transfer of citizens' health care money to the Big Pharm, Big Insurance, and over paid medicos instead of Medicare for All
Continued the neoliberal war on wage earners and organized labor which now represents less than 7% of private sector workers.
(it's too depressing to continue)
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Obama's Approval Rating Is Highest in Years
What will it take to wake up these freakin sheeple?
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
mind numbing news - thanks, hadn't seen it.
Still the #1 reason for personal bankruptcy is inability to pay medical bills.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Comparison with Clinton/Trump
makes everybody else looks good so the approval of anybody whose name is not Trump and Clinton has gone up, not just Obama.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/19/george-w-bush-...
This is going to get very interesting.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
You can no longer trust polls.
Any polls. From any source. Ever again.
Item 1
The polls had Clinton winning by landslide.
No other items needed.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Lol, is anyone still trusting
Lol, is anyone still trusting polls which serve the agendas of powerful self-interests?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Add Obama's Legacy:
Don't forget anti-trust, or is it anti-anti-trust ?
Lotsa' big ugly mergers and acquisitions over the last 8 years.
I realize that this will probably be considered a "male issue",
but 70% of all beer sales in this country are now controlled by a single corporation.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Serial drone murders, NSA, most opaque admin ever also
leap to mind.
But, what a great smile! /sarcasm
People are believing the propaganda
Almost every website I have looked at I rarely see anyone not believing that Russia hacked the DNC emails.
And that is all they are accusing them of doing, so how exactly as bad as 9/11 as an ex CIA leader wrote?
Spying is not new and it's done by so-called friendly nations
(didn't the USA apologize to Germany not too long ago for some blatant transgression?); enemies; corporations; domestic agency vs domestic agency, etc. The NYPD for decades maintained a "red squad" to spy on Americans engaged in constitutionally protected activities well outside their jurisdiction.
I agree with what you allude to: Why are Americans so prone to believe tax-funded liars and get worked up about the lies so that those in control have an excuse to commit crimes in the peoples' name?
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Maybe someone needs to start a sub-reddit
Solely dedicated to outing the propaganda the Russian hacking and "fake" news claims actually are, with the discussion centered on the reasons why they are pushing this particular bit of propaganda. Or is there already one up?
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Support the call for Obama to declassify so people can see
determine
https://theintercept.com/2016/12/12/obama-must-declassify-evidence-of-ru...
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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Brilliant idea
Thanks for the link.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Lol, Obama went to the
Lol, Obama went to the trouble of 'legalizing' government propaganda being used against the population and a censorship 'law' which may result in dissenters having/having seen proof of actual facts being 'legally disappeared' - now he's simply too tired to fake up 'evidence of Russian hacking' of an election system not, I believe, on the open internet, although easily hackable from the State Department, if I correctly recall claims of Romney's planned cheat-in being forestalled by FBI? officials posted in the State Department? (Having a tired day, but do seem to to recall something of the kind.)
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Hey sd yes they are, or using it as an excuse to go beyond.
This
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Obo has no legacy
to speak of. Even his OboCare is a Repub concoction that never worked as intended (thanks mostly to Repub governators), is currently on life support.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
I have no problem with
I have no problem with accusing the next republican president for being pro Russian anti American. Esp. Since that particular republican had no problem accusing the current president of not being an American. Turn about is fair play.
Maybe we should get you
A bigger sandbox and you can invite your friends?
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
nothing wrong with that
nothing wrong with that comment.
nothing wrong, other than the fashion in which it
promotes childish tit-for-tat nyeah-nyeahing as a reasonable substitute for a public discourse based on sincerity and some sort of meaningful regard for truth.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
delegitimizing a president
delegitimizing a president based upon labeling them with being unamerican is not in any way a tit for tat or playful game, it is a strategy to weaken a president and a very serious strategy with many consequences. It is a strategy that has been for the most part kept off the table, but republicans played it, it is fair game for Democrats to do so now. Trump played that card too as a birther, no one should complain if others play the card upon him. Sorry you needed more depth to grasp my comment.
sigh
i'm probably older than you.
i'm certainly smarter than you. (almost certainly a LOT smarter than you. probably so much smarter than you that we can only be considered to be of the same species because my offspring could probably mate with your offspring and produce viable fertile offspring.)
it is unlikely that you have ever entertained in your entire life a thought complex enough that any accurate articulation of it wouldn't have been entirely comprehensible to 15-year-old me.
and indeed, your original comment was an accurate and reasonably complete articulation of what you wanted to say. i perceived and comprehended everything there was that you put into that comment, and the philosophy that sourced it, and beyond that, a weighty tangle of ramifications clearly beyond the scope of your own cognition. the philosophy embodied in your original comment is odious and anti-democratic. it deliberately seeks to debase the public discourse by appealing to idiotic fallacies like the concept of "unamerican". to pursue this approach wounds and scars the body politic. i reject it, confidently, certainly, completely.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Gah!
I'm probably not helping here but this was funny...
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
yeah, well, it was amusing to qualify "mate" with "probably"
A couple of years ago i wrote an extensive rant diary at TOP expressing, among other things, my weariness with being told by not-particularly-insightful people that i didn't understand their simplistic and erroneous arguments. in the comments of that diary, i coined the term (which I haven't used since, actually), "dumbsplaining" to describe that phenomenon. and boy howdy, did SK2 load up a barrelfull of it in that "clarification".
and then, hilariously, follows up with the offhand mention of the fact that he has often been told in the past that he's not actually all that bright, as if that's evidence, not that he isn't actually all that bright, but that all of the bright people are not actually all that bright. or something. i don't know.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
I've heard that before
Was probably a weak attempt to say your very original rant was in fact not original at all because at the heart of it, you were saying he was stupid. My take on it is, anyone can come out and say "You're stupid" but few people can say it in quite the way you did. Maybe that makes me a bad person for enjoying the colorful way you said it, but I also laughed out loud when someone I know told a troll they were an intellectual paraplegic bereft of a wheelbarrow simply because it made for a very visceral image, even if it wasn't particularly nice.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Nice rant too bad I've heard
Nice rant too bad I've heard the same lines many times over. Honestly read a don rickles book even if you think it is below your high brow intelligence.
Anyway I support the Dem strategy.
"SJWs Always Lie" is the title of an Alt-Right author's book
Not a good strategy for Lefties to confirm Alt-Right memes by embracing a campaign so obviously based on lies.