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[Mego]

IMPORTANT: I know this is a politics thread, but let's try to have too many politic arguments, okay? 

Please tell me I am not the first person to realize what this says.

[Mr. Palau]

IMPORTANT: I know this is a politics thread, but let's try to have too many politic arguments, okay? 

Please tell me I am not the first person to realize what this says.

To be honest I started posting in this thread at like page 220 or so and so I never read the first page.

Also, those repulbican contenders could use an update.

[Karlito]

IMPORTANT: I know this is a politics thread, but let's try to have too many politic arguments, okay? 

Please tell me I am not the first person to realize what this says.

I swear that sentence made sense the first time I read it.

[Aqizzar]

Also, those repulbican contenders could use an update.

That would imply I give enough of a shit to go back and edit that OP.

In all honesty, I really should at least spruce it up so it at least doesn't look like I abandoned it halfway through the primaries.  I'll have more time to soon enough.

[Mego]

Also, those repulbican contenders could use an update.

That would imply I give enough of a shit to go back and edit that OP.

In all honesty, I really should at least spruce it up so it at least doesn't look like I abandoned it halfway through the primaries.  I'll have more time to soon enough.

But you mean you don't want to look like Ron Paul?

[mainiac]

But you mean you don't want to look like Ron Paul?

The megathread, come for the flamewars, stay for the burns.

[RedKing]

AP is reporting that a drone strike may have killed al-Qaeda's #2. Be curious to see if Obama gets any kind of boost in the polls out of it. Probably not, because that sort of thing is so last decade. Drones strikes aren't sexy, fracking and deficit hawking is.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Besides, we've blown up al-Qaeda's #2 so many times that it's rather boring now.

[RedKing]

Being the al-Qaeda #2 is kind of like being the admiral Darth Vader entrusts to hunt down the Rebels.

[Leafsnail]

Obama probably didn't have any input on this one, did he?  Drone strikes are pretty routine by now.

[GlyphGryph]

Obama personally okays and oversees every targeted strike, from what I understand, especially on high profile targets.
(I don't think he has anything to do with standard military support drone, but definitely strikes)

[Nadaka]

Obama personally okays and oversees every targeted strike, from what I understand, especially on high profile targets.
(I don't think he has anything to do with standard military support drone, but definitely strikes)

The CIA and military do drone strikes. One of them requires presidential approval, the other does not. I am not 100% sure on this, but I think the military strikes can be done independent of presidential approval.

[RedKing]

Reports indicate this was a CIA strike. So yeah, this would have fallen on the now-infamous "kill list" that NY Times was talking about last week.

Updated reports indicate they did indeed kill Abu Yahya al-Libi.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I am not 100% sure on this, but I think the military strikes can be done independent of presidential approval.

Although, if that is true, Obama would still have the authority to halt any military strikes. Commander In Chief and all that.

[PTTG??]

I love the blatantly illegal robocalls telling people to stay home if they signed a petition since they "already voted". It's on the same level as calling people and telling them you'll shoot them if they vote for your opponent.

I hope somebody loses their job for that.