{"id":39223,"date":"2012-10-24T00:36:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T07:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=39223"},"modified":"2014-12-30T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T19:03:20","slug":"sociopaths-for-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/10\/sociopaths-for-obama.html","title":{"rendered":"Sociopaths for Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Joe Klein completes the transition of the American Left into a mirror image of Osama bin Laden:<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: \u201cWhat we\u2019re doing with drones is remarkable: the fact that over the past eight years during the Bush years \u2013 when a lot of people brought up some legitimate questions about international law \u2013 my God, those lines have been completely eradicated by a drone policy that says: if you\u2019re between 17 and 30, and within a half-mile of a suspect, we can blow you up, and that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening . . . . They are focused on killing the bad guys, but it is indiscriminate as to other people who are around them at the same time . . . . it is something that will cause us problems in the coming years\u201d . . . .
\nKLEIN: \u201cI completely disagree with you. . . . It has been remarkably successful\u201d \u2014
\nSCARBOROUGH: \u201cat killing people\u201d \u2014
\nKLEIN: \u201cAt decimating bad people, taking out a lot of bad people \u2013 and saving Americans lives as well, because our troops don\u2019t have to do this . . . You don\u2019t need pilots any more because you do it with a joystick in California.\u201d
\nSCARBOROUGH: \u201cThis is offensive to me, though. Because you do it with a joystick in California \u2013 and it seems so antiseptic \u2013 it seems so clean \u2013 and yet you have 4-year-old girls being blown to bits because we have a policy that now says: \u2018you know what? Instead of trying to go in and take the risk and get the terrorists out of hiding in a Karachi suburb, we\u2019re just going to blow up everyone around them.\u2019
\n\u201cThis is what bothers me. . . . We don\u2019t detain people any more: we kill them, and we kill everyone around them. . . . I hate to sound like a Code Pink guy here. I\u2019m telling you this quote \u2018collateral damage\u2019 \u2013 it seems so clean with a joystick from California \u2013 this is going to cause the US problems in the future.\u201d
\nKLEIN: \u201cIf it is misused, and there is a really major possibility of abuse if you have the wrong people running the government. But: the bottom line in the end is \u2013 whose 4-year-old get killed? What we\u2019re doing is limiting the possibility that 4-year-olds here will get killed by indiscriminate acts of terror.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes.\u00a0 You read that right.\u00a0 The way to keep your four year old safe is to indiscriminately slaughter some four year old girl in Pakistan.\u00a0 And this is from an ardent Obama supporter spoken in defense of Obama\u2019s policies.\u00a0 Greenwald<\/a>, one of the\u00a0last honest men of the\u00a0Left, does the autopsy on this disgusting filth.\u00a0 His conclusion is exquisitely damning of the \u201cprogressive\u201d Left:<\/p>\n

This exchange is a perfectly vivid expression of the Obama legacy. Here we have a standard Democratic\/progressive pundit who is one of the media\u2019s most stalwart Obama fanatics defending indiscriminate slaughter of Muslim children. Meanwhile, it\u2019s left to a former right-wing, Gingrich-era congressman to raise objections, call for more public scrutiny, and cite the moral and strategic dangers, one of the very few commentators on MSNBC \u2013 the progressive network \u2013 who has ever voiced such passionate criticism of Obama\u2019s ongoing killings.<\/p>\n

Obama has led all sorts of progressives and other Democrats to be the most vocal supporters of unrestrained aggression, secret assassinations, and \u201ccrippling\u201d the Iranian people with sanctions. It is completely unsurprising that the most sociopathic defense of drones comes from one of the most committed Obama supporters, and that it\u2019s now left to a former GOP Congressman to raise objections. As much as anything, that is the Obama legacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obama supporter:\u00a0 How. Can. You. Sleep. At. Night?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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