freemason9 wrote:but all you do is piss and moan because obama hasn't fulfilled your messiah lust. obama isn't messiah; he's simply a better president than we have had for over three decades. he's not a radical leftist, so radical leftists defile him. however, conservatives believe he is leftist to the point of being socialist. he isn't, of course.
pragmatism is not a bad word. in fact, in a sea of whiners and hand-wringers, pragmatists make the world work. they always, always have. they work slowly, consistently, and predictably--to the irritation of those that can bitch loudly with no consequences.
try enacting policy across a nation of 300 million that is supported by 15% of the population. just try it.
the fact is that our media is corporately controlled, and the media controls the electorate. any policy or action that conflicts with corporate policy in america is destined for spectacular failure and a setback of two or more decades. in fact, you can thank overly exuberant liberals in the 1960's and 70's (and a lack of intelligent, mature pragmatism) for the last three decades of conservative smog. it was a backlash.
here's lesson one, kiddies--stay out of their faces. us old fucks have learned that.
now carry on with your raised fists of liberation
@FM9:
A growing part of the Obama legacy (Glenn Greenwald again)Physicians for Human Rights yesterday released a report documenting (while relying on heavily redacted material) that "medical professionals who were involved in the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogations of terrorism suspects engaged in forms of human research and experimentation in violation of medical ethics and domestic and international law." To those paying close attention, the evidence suggesting that this occurred has long been clear. Today, The New York Times Editorial Page said this:
The report from the physicians’ group does not prove its case beyond doubt -- how could it when so much is still hidden? -- but it rightly calls on the White House and Congress to investigate the potentially illegal human experimentation and whether those who authorized or conducted it should be punished. Those are just two of the many unresolved issues from the Bush administration that President Obama and Congressional leaders have swept under the carpet.
When the history of the Bush era is written, the obvious question will be: what was done about the systematic war crimes, torture regime, chronic lawbreaking, and even human experimentation which that administration perpetrated on the world? And the answer is now just as obvious: nothing, because the subsequent President -- Barack Obama -- decreed that We Must Look Forward, Not Backward, and then engaged in extreme measures to carry out that imperial, Orwellian dictate by shielding those crimes from investigation, review, adjudication and accountability.
All of that would be bad enough if his generous immunity were being applied across the board. But it isn't.
Numerous incidents now demonstrate that as high-level Bush lawbreakers are vested with presidential immunity, low-level whistle blowers who exposed serious wrongdoing and allowed citizens some minimal glimpse into what our government does are being persecuted by the Obama administration with a vengeance. Yesterday it was revealed by Wired that the Army intelligence officer analyst who reportedly leaked the Apache helicopter attack video to Wikileaks -- and thus enabled Americans to see what we are really doing in Iraq and other countries which we occupy and attack -- has been arrested (Wikileaks denies the part of that report claiming that the whistle blower also leaked to it "hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records"). This latest episode led Der Spiegel today to decry Obama's "war on whistle blowers" as more severe than the one waged by the Bush administration (English translation here).
(more..)This is just one failure to "fulfill messiah lust". Greenwald has extensively catalogued many others.
tl;dr: this is not about failing to fulfill messiah fantasies. This is about actively enacting antichrist fears.
