Obama just keeps breaking with the past, and ushering in an era of hope and change that we can believe in:
WASHINGTON -- The Central Intelligence Agency's new director outlined spy policies Wednesday, including an aggressive campaign in Pakistan, that underscored considerable continuity with the Bush administration.
CIA Director Leon Panetta, in his first meeting with reporters, said the agency will continue to carry out drone attacks on militants in Pakistan. He also said that while CIA interrogations will have new limits, President Barack Obama can still use his wartime powers to authorize harsher techniques if necessary.
Perhaps the worst victims of his continuation of the nefarious policies from Bush the Younger will be the liberals, whose hopes and dreams are being lead into an open field by a firing squad to await their one way ticket to meet their maker. At least they'll still have their precious diversity:
Within the agency, Mr. Panetta said he is looking to raise linguistic and cultural fluency. Currently, just 13% of CIA officers and analysts have foreign-language proficiency, he said, adding that his goal is to get the agency on track to reach 100%. He said he will work to improve diversity at the agency, raising the proportion of minorities in the work force to 30% from 22%.
The Child of Hope and his agents will at least not disappoint us by ensuring that even the janitors at the CIA speak at least two languages, and that even if means jamming thousands of square pegs into round holes, come hell or high water, the CIA will at least superficially resemble America on its HR reports.
The Child of Hope and his agents will at least not disappoint us by ensuring that even the janitors at the CIA speak at least two languages,
This would actually be an improvement as they might be required to learn English! It also might signal a good time to invest in whoever produces the Rosetta Stone software.
Also, and off topic, Astro made a request: "Anyone else using Java and have some other cool stuff for me to check out?" Thought you might be able to point him in the right direction.
Perhaps the worst victims of his continuation of the nefarious policies from Bush the Younger will be the liberals, whose hopes and dreams are being lead into an open field by a firing squad to await their one way ticket to meet their maker.
I don't think they care. Their guy won, and that's all that matters. They will rationalize everything he does.
Many of them will rationalize the things that he does that break campaign pledges, but a number of liberals will still get very upset over his behavior similar to how their conservative counterparts turned on the Republicans over Bush.
"Perhaps the worst victims of his continuation of the nefarious policies from Bush the Younger will be the liberals, whose hopes and dreams are being lead into an open field by a firing squad to await their one way ticket to meet their maker."
It wont matter. He can break every single promise he's ever made to them and they'll elect him again in 4 years. Just keep tellin' em what they want to here. If you lie with a convincing tone and a condescending smile on your face, it's not a lie....... right?
Truly a sad state.
The left will do the same thing the right did with Bush. "This is acceptable because our guy is doing it, and our guy is doing it because it is acceptable." Logical, eh?