Is Barack Obama a Co-dependent?

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Tuesday June 14, 2011 · 7:41 AM PDT

2011/06/14 · 07:41

obama tries to make everybody happy and ends up making nobody happy, a genuine "people-pleaser"...

i somehow never applied the term "co-dependent" to obama but the signs have certainly been there all along... i guess it was this that finally caused me to get a clue...

Obama's Secret Afghan Exit Formula
President Obama is poised to unveil his top-secret plan to slowly reduce U.S. troops in Afghanistan by upward of 30,000 over 12 to 18 months—a plan he hopes will satisfy both those pushing for a quick exit and the diehards determined to stay the course.

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While you natter about teabagging, here's the torture dossier

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Thursday April 16, 2009 · 10:13 PM PDT

2009/04/16 · 22:13

(cross posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally)

<span style="font-style:italic;">i'm not wild about this decision, to say the least, but i might find it a little easier to swallow IF it was combined with an announcement that those responsible for authorizing the torture-based interrogation techniques were going to be held accountable... unfortunately, i'm afraid my hope for the resoration of accountability and the rule of law under barack obama is fast fading...</span>

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Monday June 02, 2008 · 4:03 AM PDT

2008/06/02 · 04:03

...half of the world has tried to bring a better future and, most of all, peace to this new country, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. As part of the NATO military operation known as the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), 40 nations have 60,000 soldiers deployed in the country. There are 26 United Nations organizations in Afghanistan, and hundreds of private and government agencies are pumping money, materials and know-how into the country's 34 provinces.

gosh, you would think, given that the u.s. came galloping in to afghanistan right after 9/11 followed by a bunch of other countries, that, yes, things SHOULD have gotten better... and, yes, anyone who reads stuff like that spiegel article (and many more like it), handily reinforced by meteor blades, could be forgiven for thinking the same thing... however, until i arrived here in kabul in late march and saw things with my own eyes, i might have been just one of the many swallowing such bologna, hook, line and sinker... trouble is, it's just not true...

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Wednesday May 28, 2008 · 9:04 AM PDT

2008/05/28 · 09:04

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally]

holy crap...! REALLY HARD QUESTIONS about guantánamo, the geneva convention, endless detention, torture, etc., etc...! chertoff can only offer slippery non-answers and standard talking points...

take a look at the clips below and weep for what's become of television news journalism in the good ol' u.s. of a... sami zeidan at al jazeera does the honors...

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Saturday May 03, 2008 · 9:35 PM PDT

2008/05/03 · 21:35

[cross-posted on And, yes, I DO take it personally]

i've been posting on various perspectives of kabul and afghanistan... here's another one that captures fairly well the experience of driving around the city of kabul...

Getting around in some parts of central Kabul is like driving inside trenches: two lanes of road between high walls made of modern versions of sandbags referred to by their brand name: "Hesco barriers." They consist of 4-foot-tall wire mesh containers lined with heavy plastic and filled with sand, gravel or dirt, all topped by concertina wire. Other streets have classic sandbag structures, high walls and/or concrete-like barricades. Every dozen yards along the roads are heavily armed guards -- dead serious, with sunglasses, earpieces and legs menacingly spread.

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Sunday April 27, 2008 · 12:55 AM PDT

2008/04/27 · 00:55

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally]

this is one of those things when i wish i didn't have to say "i was there"...

from the bbc...

At least one person has been killed and 11 were hurt in an attack on a military parade in Kabul attended by President Hamid Karzai and other dignitaries.

Security forces whisked Mr Karzai away from the scene and hundreds fled as shots rang out. Two MPs were reported to be among the wounded.

The parade was a celebration to mark 16 years since the overthrow of the country's Soviet-backed rule.

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Saturday April 26, 2008 · 5:24 AM PDT

2008/04/26 · 05:24

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally]

this nyt article about afghanistan president hamid karzai's speech yesterday gives me the opportunity to say something i've been wanting to say for the past several weeks...

read the excerpt first...

President Hamid Karzai strongly criticized the British and American conduct of the war here on Friday, insisting in an interview that his government be given the lead in policy decisions.

Mr. Karzai said that he wanted American forces to stop arresting suspected Taliban and their sympathizers, and that the continued threat of arrest and past mistreatment were discouraging Taliban from coming forward to lay down their arms.

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Tuesday April 22, 2008 · 11:30 PM PDT

2008/04/22 · 23:30

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally]

let's go with mr. novak first...

Traveling the country the past few months, I have encountered habitual Republican voters so entranced by Barack Obama's potential to lead the nation that they plan to vote for him in November. Once Hillary Clinton's supporters return to the fold, Obama Republicans could produce a Democratic presidential landslide. But Obama's recent missteps jeopardize their support and imperil his election.

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Sunday November 04, 2007 · 6:38 AM PST

2007/11/04 · 06:38

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Piñon Canyon, east of Trinidad, Colorado

a friend in southern colorado had tipped me off to the controversy that was brewing over this but couldn't tell me what the land was wanted for... i did a search of the local newspaper but couldn't come up with anything... now, i see what the fuss is all about...

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Monday October 29, 2007 · 1:32 PM PDT

2007/10/29 · 13:32

(note: i've been screaming bloody murder about the assault on our constitution for over two years on my own blog, And, yes, I DO take it personally, but my frustration about the relative complacency about this issue on the so-called liberal and progressive blogs is now boiling over...)

with all the caterwauling about the criminality of the bush administration and its abuse of executive power - torture, signing statements, extraordinary rendition, stonewalling subpoenas, secrecy, executive privilege, illegal wars, recess appointments, first and fourth amendment violations, election stealing, election rigging, politicization of the executive branch, violations of the hatch act, leaking classified information, outing an undercover cia agent, on, and on, and on - i just don't get it... looking at demfromct's front-pager and checking out the multitude of issues-related diaries, i simply cannot fathom why the shredding of the united states constitution is not the number one issue on daily kos... i can understand why it might not be the top issue among the citizenry at large, but, for god's sake, kossacks, GET A CLUE...!

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Friday October 26, 2007 · 1:03 PM PDT

2007/10/26 · 13:03

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally]

(note: i just jumped around to a few "liberal," "progressive," and "democratic" weblogs, and the only one i saw that mentioned dodd's speech was atrios... we finally have a senator - a presidential candidate at that - actually speaking out on our constitutional crisis, and it's hardly making a ripple in the blogosphere... how PATHETIC is THAT...?)

you have no idea how long and how desperately i have been waiting for a speech like this... the hair on the back of my neck is standing up and i have chills up and down my spine... this is the call to action that should have been sounded years ago, but better late than never... all of my hopes and prayers are riding on this man... he cannot be too forceful in his message or too strong in his actions to defend our constitutionally-founded republic... god help him and us...

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The most critical issue in the U.S. today is the constitutional crisis.

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The most critical issue in the U.S. today is the constitutional crisis.

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Thursday October 25, 2007 · 9:30 AM PDT

2007/10/25 · 09:30

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i was drawn to this particular paragraph in one of anonymous liberal's guest contributions to glenn greenwald's blog in salon...

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Do you believe that Congress is acting in the best interests of all Americans?

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Do you believe that Congress is acting in the best interests of all Americans?

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Shock? Check. Anger? Check. Rejection? Check. Acceptance? Might as well.