CIA’s efforts to get Evo Morales as annoyed as possible seemed very weird in their sheer aimlessness. There was absolutely no chance that Snowden was jet-setting around Europe by Morales’s side, so why was there such a rush to antagonize the Bolivian president? May antagonizing him have been the goal of the CIA?
Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, on Saturday said that he would offer Edward Snowden asylum if asked. He joins the presidents of Venezuela and Nicaragua in that offer.
Morales said that he made the decision as a just protest against his own treatment last week, when his jet was denied overflight rights in France, Spain, Portugal and Italy as he returned from energy discussions in Moscow. He was forced to divert to Vienna, and says the Spanish ambassador to Austria demanded to search his plane. . .
The US intelligence bright idea of telling Western European allies that Snowden was on the Bolivian jet has therefore backfired.
Or did it? Maybe this was the plan all along. The longer Snowden sits in Sheremetievo making news, the more embarrassing the whole thing gets for Obama. Getting Snowden to move from Russia to a small, internationally insignificant and non-threatening Bolivia would make the situation somewhat better for the US President.
I freely confess, however, that my analysis is heavily influenced by my need to see the US’s actions in this case as less stupid than they seem to be. I’d accept pretty much any conspiracy theory rather than believe that this presidency is as impotent and useless as it looks in the Snowden affair.
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I truly believe that your final conclusion is correct. Obama achieved all his success via affirmative action. He is at most of average intelligence. He lacks analytical skills of any kind. He can read well from a teleprompter, and that is about it. He will go down in history as the worst U.S. president of all time. He is now an international laughing stock. And he is not even sufficiently bright as to recognise this situation.
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I don’t think he’s as dumb as you do, but he’s temprementally all wrong for US president.
The US system selects for good campaigners and not good administrators and usually those skill sets don’t belong to the same person.
I do think the evidence indicates that Romney was/is a good administrator (better than Obama who can only deal with people who admire him) but he wasn’t a good campaigner (and allowed the campaign to get hijacked by non-issues)
*hint: no republican president will allow RvW to be overturned because then they lose their base.
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It’s ridiculous. Presidents are figureheads, who do what their advisers tell them.
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One of the few moments I actually agree with Muster. 😉
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Not giving the whole thing too much thought I think maybe
a) they’re still trying to intimidate other potential whistle blowers (with the meta message ‘sovereignty means nothing to us if we’re trying to get you) in which case the more bad publicity the better
b) they’re just that incompetent (which I’m leaning toward)
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Conspiracy theories become increasingly attractive as “our” Government lies to us increasingly.
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“I freely confess, however, that my analysis is heavily influenced by my need to see the US’s actions in this case as less stupid than they seem to be.”
Haha, I think you deliberately insert these lines to bait racists like Charlie boy into showing their hand. And, by god, does he ever. Keep it up Charlie, and congratulations on attacking Obama using the same tired memes (teleprompter, affirmative action) as Aryan Nation members. I guess you finally found your intellectual equals. Shave your head and get a lightning bolt tattoo and be done with it.
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I’m honestly starting to wonder if Charlie-boy’s even a real person or if he’s just a few lines of computer code programmed to read through blog posts and then crap-out tangentially-related right-wing talking points in response to certain keywords.
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Conspiracy theories become increasingly attractive as “our” Government lies to us increasingly.(Dan)
Page 130. Creature from Jeckyll Island.
“Almost all of history is unbroken trail of one conspiracy after another. Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception.”
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I’m opting for the CIA being incompetent, myself. For all of its legendary reputation, I’ve seen precious little evidence that it isn’t.
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“Presidents are figureheads, who do what their advisers tell them”
Largely yes, but being mostly a figurehead is a still job and still takes a certain personality profile to do well. Obama doesn’t fit that profile very well so he’s a mostly ineffective, mediocre president.
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I don’t know. The US sense of justice relies heavily on getting the bad guy. I would not be suprised if this is was a true attempt at getting a hold of him.
That would also have the added bonus of having him shut up for good. You would not hear another word from him. And you know what happens when the US shuts up their opponents. They end up being the heroes.
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And that is why only a mediocre presisent would go after him! Daniel Ellsburg has an excellent column in The Washington Post today justifying Snowden and warning to stay out of reach of Obama.
And I thought that Ellsberg was a hero for the liberals in America.
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You might find this Op-Ed interesting which is a Conservative view of Ed Snowden as an Ayn Randian hero. I wonder what Randian antagonist Obama represents?
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/snowden-shrugged/
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