[Peace-discuss] He's come undone

C. G. Estabrook carl at newsfromneptune.com
Sat Aug 10 22:34:14 UTC 2013


Are his killings getting to Macbeth (j.g.)?

"Visibly Annoyed Obama Unveils Non-Reforms on NSA Surveillance -- News from Antiwar.com
<http://news.antiwar.com/2013/08/09/visibly-annoyed-obama-unveils-non-reforms-on-nsa-surveillance/>

"From the moment he emerged at the White House press conference today, President Obama had a visible chip on his shoulder, apparently annoyed that facing growing public outrage over the NSA surveillance schemes he had to make public promises of reforms..."

Or maybe it's the violations of the Constitution.

"Oddly, Obama conceded of the surveillance that 'I would be worried too if I wasn’t inside the government,' but then went on to insist that *the public would’ve been fine with the program but this trust was 'undermined' by leaks*, which of course are the only reason the American public knew about the surveillance in the first place."

Obama wrote in The Audacity of Hope that “the greatest casualty of that [Vietnam] war was the bond of trust between the American people and their government.” (Paul Street, who quotes the remark, comments, “as if the deaths of millions of Indochinese and 58,000 U.S. GIs were secondary and as if popular American skepticism towards the designs of the U.S. foreign policy establishment isn’t a sign of democratic health.”) Obama sees his job accurately as to restore that “trust between the American people and their government” in regard to his war-making as well as his exploitative economic policy...

"Most of the press conference was of little substance, with Obama angrily rejecting questions about drone strikes in Yemen and mocking Russian President Vladimir Putin’s slouch, saying he’s 'looking like the bored kid in the classroom'"...




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