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O appears befuddled
by the entire international and national scene. His statements address his
feelings of the moment without regard to multiple contradictions relating to
his earlier policies and pronouncements. The consensus here is that O is
alarmingly weak and the stronger of our foreign heads of state are taking advantage
of it.
Europe has every reason
to be annoyed now that Edward Snowden has revealed that we have bugged almost every communications
link on the Continent and in the UK. Such bugging and hacking was
permissible as long as it was not made public. Europe has no other choice than
to be irate.
It will pass, but I do
recall having said in one of my earlier notes that the US Government
is the biggest hacker in the world. I did not realize how true that statement
was.
I rather hoped that
Snowden would have remained in Russia. He could have cooled off a bit and then
lived a life of leisure without, of course, humor, central heating, privacy,
friends and all the comforts of his former home. When I learned he may have
been accepted by Bolivia I wanted him to be on the airplane. The whole episode
began with an offhand remark by President Evo Morales who comes across a
equally wet behind the ears as O himself
Why France, Spain and
Portugal scrambled so fast to deny Morales' airplane flyover rights is beyond
me, if indeed they did deny such rights. I assumed the these European countries
were sufficiently pissed off with America that they would gladly aid in Snowden's escape to Bolivia.
There is a lot of anger
among American conservatives about the manner in which O is exercising his
presidential role. The remainder of O's term will be fraught with mounting and
more acerbic criticism from the right.
The right smells blood
and the pressure to bring O to his knees is mounting. The recent scandals and a
very poor performance internationally are prime target areas. I also suspect
that a lot more misguided efforts on the part of O and his administration will
surface.
The nature of these will
be tactics to discredit and disrupt conservative political and business leaders
and institutions.
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