BS: Obama

Subject: BS: Obama
From: The Sandman
Date: 22 Feb 19 - 04:24 AM

Was the former president a former employee of the CIA

Subject: RE: BS: Obama
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Feb 19 - 07:14 AM

not to my knowledge

Subject: RE: BS: Obama
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Feb 19 - 08:49 AM

Ha ha ha ha ha!

Subject: RE: BS: Obama
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 22 Feb 19 - 09:03 AM

What gives rise to the question, Dick?

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Obama
From: Mossback
Date: 22 Feb 19 - 09:33 AM

What gives rise to the question, Dick?

Twitlerism, & a good dose of Alex Junes & Fux "News"[sic]

Subject: RE: BS: Obama
From: EBarnacle
Date: 22 Feb 19 - 11:23 AM

None of which are bound by the truth.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Feb 19 - 12:23 PM

CIA or no CIA,
I recall well what it was like in the part of
the northeastern US where I live.
My town is an exurb, if you like, that means that
it's a rather substantial drive from the town to
the megalopolis/behemoth that is greater Boston,
and yet there are commuters in my town who drive in that direction,
before sunrise, five days a week.

So this place is a combination of upwardly mobile singles and families,
with their politics and their ambitions,
with families who can't really afford to live like that
and who are envious and resentful.

And I can still hear the voices of the have-not adults.
Remember Saddam Hussein? and how Americans,
esp. rural/small-town white Americans, used to pronounce the name as
"sa-DAMN!". they would say it like an profanity,
"Sa-DAMN Hoo-sayn."

Years after that, the same men would go around saying --
"OH! BA-ma!"
in the same rhythm, the same accent and stress,
and making it sound just as profane.

Now you may guess, as I have,
who in these parts goes around wearing MAGA baseball caps --
not only those grown-ups, but their teenage, and older, children.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 23 Feb 19 - 12:39 PM

Sounds like the standard white-Caucasian Right's campaign of demonisation of those who "Aren't like us", Keb. It's what they do to rouse the rabble.

We have the same in the UK - like the current demonisation of a radicalised and abused teenage girl and her baby by people who should know better, but who have no humanity or shame.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 23 Feb 19 - 02:48 PM

A quick glance indicates that the ultra right media have been pushing this around for a while
Mind you, I've been told that Obama was responsible for putting the Klan back on the streets of America strange bedfellows - hope they wash the sheets before they use them on the bed !
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Obama
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Feb 19 - 04:32 PM

I suppose the idea of Obama working for the CIA (unlikely) is meant as a counter to the idea of Trump having been blackmailed into working for Russian intelligence (not so unlikely).

Sounds like someone needs to look up a definition for "false equivalency".

Working for one's own government's intelligence service is not the same as working for the intelligence service of an adversarial foreign government.