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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (415025)	5/8/2011 8:44:39 PM
From: Terry Maloney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

>>Digby is a clown. "This is necessary because we're so good and they're so evil."<< Kinda slanderous words, BC ... got link?

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (415025)	5/9/2011 1:34:17 AM
From: S. maltophilia	1 Recommendation Respond to of 436258

<<Digby is a clown. "This is necessary because we're so good and they're so evil." Didby truly believes this shit. Defending Bush the third is a way of life with clowns like digby.>> Digby must be a bit schizo: ...At this point there's no longer any reason to assume that Obama doesn't get it or is just trying to get his legislation through and doesn't want to alienate Republicans. He is what he appears to be, which is a dry, pragmatic, status quo, technocrat who makes symbolic leftward gestures while offering center right policies. The power of his iconic status is enough to create the illusion of idealism, which keeps him interesting. The Right is freaky enough to keep the left wary of going too far in challenging him. But the right smells that he prefers to avoid fights, whether for psychological or ideological reasons, and they are successfully pushing him ever rightward while portraying him as a radical socialist. It's very clever. But then they are far more clever at macro-politics than anyone on the left... digbysblog.blogspot.com ....As is typical for Obama, he split the difference in the debate and went right down the middle. He will release the memos with some operational details, but will redact others as well as "the way techniques were applied to particular prisoners." This is kind of silly. We have a Red Cross report detailing how these techniques were applied to particular prisoners. And ..... digbysblog.blogspot.com Not quite as harsh a critic as you and Orly Taitz <g>, but these quotes and what I've read of her blog are hardly likely to get her a night in the Lincoln Bedroom.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (415025)	5/9/2011 1:44:47 AM
From: S. maltophilia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

<<We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.>> Well, he participated in the killing of about a million of theirs, and in the eyes of whatever Deity there might be, every one of them is his equal, at least. <<operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law>> Figures - international law, by rulers, for the protection of the ruling class. If private soldiers and civilians are fair game, why not the warmongers-in-chief? <<anger that Pakistan didn't turn over bin Laden, though surely elements of the military and security forces were aware of his presence in Abbottabad>> In a country where a guy named Mr.10% has no trouble getting elected as president, 15000 ounces of gold (it used to ~50000 oz.) would certainly been temptation enough for someone to have ratted out OBL. Either that or I am seriously underestimating their national moral character.