Obama Failure Thread Part VII (The Lame Duck Years)

I see the artist graduated from the Mallard Fillmore School of Strident but Unfunny Cartooning.

 

They made that into a comic??? I took that pic out of the family album!

 

Obama commutes sentence for notorious Wikileaks leaker...

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/...sentence-will-be-freed-May-17?detail=facebook

 

Great news.

That she was tortured is to his eternal shame, but at least she can look forward to freedom in a few months time.

 

What are you speaking of, Shake? We don't torture people any more*!




*Offer not valid in all jurisdictions

 

She's been held in solitary confinement for years. Holding someone in solitary confinement for any length of time is torture.

 

I know. It was sarcasm. Remember I'm on your side on this.

 

pssst. I think he was making a joke.

Even if she wasn't tortured "in a legal sense," I think she has paid her debt. Hopefully she can have a life after this. She's already given up at least twice.

 

What debt? Helping to destroy the military-industrial complex?

Did American society come crashing down because of what she did? No. This whole business about top-secret, classified bullshit should be reserved for battle tactics and nuclear codes. And that's it.

 

And secret business/political ties to Russia. That's it.

 

Didn't realize I was being so insensitive. I should have inserted "imagined" or "implied" before the word debt.

 

Not making a joke, that to me qualifies as torture. I figured Brummie knew what I meant, but in case anyone else didn't, now you know.

 

A couple more days left, still time to pardon Robert Hanssen!

 

I suspect Trump will be the one to do that.

Anyway, I'm still not remotely thrilled as to what Manning did, but I also think that her treatment at the hands of the US has been appalling, so don't disagree with this decision. Given what she has gone through, I can't imagine leakers will now think it's open season.

 

Guy went to college in my home town. ******** him. Now, if Obama really wants to cut into Trump's news cycle, on the morning of the inaugeration...

Charles Manson, FTW!

 

So is ok to out CIA agents ala Dick Chaney?

 

Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera will also be freed after 36 years of prison.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...tence-oscar-lopez-rivera-puerto-rico-activist

Best president since FDR.

 

Or how bout a 60s twofer - Charlie and Roman Poanski.
#helterskelter

 

No, but I don't believe Cheney should have gone to prison for it. Cheney should have gone to prison for invading a sovereign country for no reason whatsoever.

 

That article omits that Rivera's FALN committed over 70 bombings in the US that killed 5 people. Also these Puerto Rican independence movements are idiotic in that they attack the US while the independence option in referendums in P.R. runs a DISTANT third to status quo and full statehood. Independence has never cracked 5% in the referendums since 1967. What do these morons want, the US to unilaterally cut P.R. loose against the wishes of 95% of Puerto Ricans? the US to strip citizenship from 3.5 million Puerto Ricans? Instead bombing and killing mainland Americans, they should be trying to convince the other 95% of Puerto Ricans that independence is the way to go.

You are right though. Obama or FDR. That is a toughie. One sets free traitors and terrorists and the other imprisons innocent Americans of Japanese decent. That is a tough choice.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawyers-...tradition-us-not-met-185144483--politics.html

Consider me shocked. Shocked, I say!

 

Wow, sounds like the independence movement and Lopez Rivera himself are wildly unpopular.

Yet somehow, the news of his freedom have sparked widespread celebrations from Puerto Ricans. How puzzling!

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/01/celebration_set_today_for_pard.html

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-01...ez-rivera-who-will-be-freed-after-35-years-us

http://www.wbur.org/morningedition/2017/01/19/oscar-lopez-rivera-commutation-boston-reaction

And I know I'm right about FDR and Obama, thanks. The long list of war crimes that every single US president takes part in is shorter for these two than for any other.

 

What countries did George W. Bush invade without Congressional approval? Did he claim authority to even do so?

 

Er... ever hear of Panama?