badgenome said:
Kasz216 said:
badgenome said:
Kasz216 said:
He's really shown himself if anything to be more beligerant then Bush.
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Whether it's out of partisan hypocrisy or sheer ignorance, I'm not entirely sure, but the popularity of Gitmo and drone attacks is at an all time high, including among self-identified liberal Democrats. I do think there's a strong "Nixon goes to China" aspect to it, and just like Bush could massively increase the size of the regulatory apparatus without rousing conservatives, Obama can bomb the shit out of everything without Dems getting their panties in a twist.
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I'd go with A. I mean, I don't see how B would increase it's popularity.
Ignore it was happening sure, but increasing it's popularity would seem to suggest that said people are starting to identify it more with Obama.
Of course it could always just be... C "Screw all that that's years old and boring."
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Yeah, I was being overly generous. Naturally, it's just "RAH RAH BLUE TEAM" bullshit. The fact that the same people who hyperventilated when Bush wanted to wiretap the likes of al-Awlaki without a court order don't get exercised over Obama killing him based on some supposed legal justification to which we're not even privy, kinda leaves only the one option.
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Did anything ever even leak about the legal justication? I'm curious whether they went with the ever popular "He stopped being a citizen after he went over there." a vague "The army can kill rioters so why not this guy" or something completely else.
Really, thinking about it, the even greater comparison is probably Bush's legal position on torture... torture vs murdering a US citizen.
I dunno.
