Comments on: Well Played

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 01:00:42 +0000

I still hope for the best, but I expect the worst, and am too rarely wrong.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 00:21:28 +0000

Bryan, I lived through those years, saw the violence at the 1968 convention on TV, and I still forget sometimes. Hope is not a solution, but it sure as hell is a major distraction from reality.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 21:14:55 +0000

In reply to Steve Bates. Anyone who assumed that you were going to get a liberal, or a real Democrat, out of Chicago after the 1968 Democratic Convention just hasn't been paying attention or hasn't read much political history...

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 15:15:31 +0000

Here's another undelivered promise from Obama regarding transparency about drones, from the Guardian via Raw Story. The man is mighty casual about what he says vis-a-vis what he does... as you've said, like any Chicago pol.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 02:14:41 +0000

This White House is no better than the last one when it comes to competent staff work. They need to check it for lead in the water and carbon monoxide in the ventilation system, because a lot of people who were thought to be intelligent are certainly not demonstrating it once they enter the door. They seem to think that people will automatically believe anything Zero tells them. Not going to happen…

These people are more secretive that Cheney.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 21:50:54 +0000

“The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA’s compliance record. In June, after promising to explain the NSA’s record in “as transparent a way as we possibly can, …”

Add a new definition to the ObamaSpeak dictionary…
transparent, a.: Opaque, as in “as transparent a way as we possibly can”

Orwell couldn’t have done it better.