Bob sends us a tiny little love mail today:
“YOU VOTED FOR OBAMA?
THANKS A LOT ASS HOLE.”
I don’t know why Bob refers to himself as an “Ass Hole.” Perhaps he’s suffering from McCain regret. That’s understandable, considering how John McCain embarrassingly chanted “Drill Baby Drill!” on the campaign trail in 2008. It’s understandable Bob may want to denigrate his choice of McCain considering that in 2009 John McCain voted to force offshore oil drilling to proceed, pushing over environmental and safety concerns at various sites. He may feel badly about that McCain vote considering that John McCain introduced legislation earlier this year to detain American citizens indefinitely without charge.
I may have many regrets about actions taken by the Obama administration, but I can breathe a sigh of relief that at least we aren’t stuck with the inflexibly radical John McCain as president. In that regard, I’m happy to accept your thanks.
But let’s move on from Election 2008 and get down to the personal level that connects us all in a common web of oneness with our mother Gaia, father Time, half-brother Space and cousin Clem. Bob, oh my brother being Bob, it’s OK, man. It’s OK. None of us are perfect; we’re fallible human beings from the tippy-tops of our heads down to our… well, you know. Stop beating yourself up about that McCain vote. Look to the future instead. Just promise yourself you won’t vote Republican in 2010 and really, there’ll be no damage done!
P.S. Your meaning would have been clearer if you’d put a comma in between the “LOT” and “ASS.” Just fyi there. Cheers!
So how’s the Obama presidency workin out?
A disappointment, but not the disaster a McCain presidency would have been.
Did you have an article a while back about how people who read indie media are considered for terrorist lists?
I vaguely recall that.
Yep, right here:
http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2009/11/10/fbi-spies-on-you-demanding-identity-of-visitors-to-indymedia/
Antiwar Radio: New Glenn Greenwald interview U.S. government abducted a Canadian citizen at JFK, denied him habeas corpus, and sent him to Syria for 10 months torture. After torture, Syria concluded they couldn’t get anything from him. Canada paid him 9 million in compensation, but when he sued in U.S. court, the Bush regime intervened to shut the trial down as a state secret. The Obama regime embraced the Bush admins rulings and urged the S.C. not to accept the appeal.
Jim, isn’t the fact that you voted for Obama, means that you’re lending him legitimacy by doing so?
No, it means I voted for Obama, and not for McCain. When Obama was running, he hadn’t indicated he would be acting in this fashion regarding Maher Arar, and indeed his campaign rhetoric suggested he would dial back the Bush Homeland Security apparatus and act as a model of transparency. So voting for Obama was not voting for the state secrets approach he ended up later taking in the Maher Arar case.
I’m angry with Barack Obama for acting like yet another Homeland Security goon after taking office on a promise to steer America on a different course.
A more interesting question would be, “What would it mean for a person to vote for Barack Obama in 2012?”
What do you think of Kagan?
If she was substituted for Stevens during the Bush years, the Bush team would have won all of those 4-5 losses like Hamdan and Boumediene and Rasul.
I don’t have a formed opinion on Kagan yet. I’m reading and learning what I can.
Well maybe Boumediene at least.