A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.
The true measure of a society´s freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized groups, not how it treats its good loyalists. We shouldn´t have to be faithful loyalists of the powerful to be free from state surveillance.
For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that’d be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.
American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.
Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.
In video games, one of the most helpless against injustice can even mighty.
Washington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power.
The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.
He’s the President—it’s the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it’s warranted.
I don’t have a ‘side’—I’m responsible for what I say and nothing else.
It’s common to go from ‘crashing the gate’ to guarding it.
As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing
Terrorism’: the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.
Terrorist’, noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.
I know it’s a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn’t mean they are.
They’re called ‘facts’, and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don’t care at all what you think of my motives.
When journalists are ‘accused’ of being ‘advocates’, that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.
I’d like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.
A number I’d love to know: the % of those now saying ‘we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran’ who will support one if Obama does it.
Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you’re really talking about is the full extent of human communication.
The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.