Evil Obama Now Firing People For Acting Semi-Human

Guess who turned out to be thebiggest asshole in the world? Your boyfriend, Barack Obama. The latest outrage in the Bradley Manning situation involves Obama's direct involvement in the firing of State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley -- because Crowley committed the sin of condemning the torture and abuse of U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning, who has been held in increasingly Soviet-esque solitary confinement since his arrest for giving WikiLeaks the diplomatic data that has so far helped topple two Arab dictatorships and launched democratic revolutions in another half-dozen Muslim nations. Anyway, Crowley's semi-public remarks led to a reporter finally asking Obama about Manning's awful treatment at Quantico, and Obama sneered and said the insane abuse of this American citizen is "appropriate." And then Crowley was fired.

Remember, if you just "opt out" of the 2012 presidential election -- and by "you," we mean "all Democrats" -- some awful Republican will become president and then none of us will have to "feel bad" about full-scale labor wars and nationwide shutdowns and the complete collapse of the American police state/kleptocracy. Let it collapse! It's not like your 401k is ever going to hit 2007 levels again, no matter how much of your stretched salary goes into that black hole, year after year. It's not like there's a point to any of this!

 Anyway:  

So, in Barack Obama's administration, it's perfectly acceptable to abuse an American citizen in detention who has been convicted of nothing by consigning him to 23-hour-a-day solitary confinement, barring him from exercising in his cell, punitively imposing "suicide watch" restrictions on him against the recommendations of brig psychiatrists, and subjecting him to prolonged, forced nudity designed to humiliate and degrade. But speaking out against that abuse is a firing offense. Good to know. As Matt Yglesias just put it: "Sad statement about America that P.J. Crowley is the one being forced to resign over Bradley Manning." And as David Frum added: "Crowley firing: one more demonstration of my rule: Republican pols fear their base, Dem pols despise it."

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By firing PJ Crowley for the offense of protesting against the sadistic military treatment of Bradley Manning, the president has now put his personal weight behind prisoner abuse. The man who once said that forced nudity was a form of torture, now takes the word of those enforcing it over a distinguished public servant.

It's a muddled up, mixed up, shook up world when your Wonkette quotes Andrew Sullivan and Glenn Greenwald quoting Matt Yglesias and David Frum, all in the same post andnot for the intrinsic humor value in quoting such people.

Remember how we all howled with laughter/disgust when Bush said, "We don't torture"? Becauseof coursethe United States had turned into a Stalin-style Empire of Horror and we had taxpayer-supported horror prisons all over the world and the stacks of naked Iraqis and raped little children and people getting their fingernails pulled out and waterboarded and all that. Well now we have an administration that not only continues suchevilas official U.S. policy, but is now actually torturing American citizens and standing up for it, right there from the presidential podium in the White House.

How's that hopey changey thing working out?