What Obama would do, in a dictatorship...

[Cain]

That is the only way I can view this story, which shows that Obama kept a Yemeni journalist in jail, where he was held under false charges because he reported on drone strikes within Yemen.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/23/yemen-journalist-us-drone-strike-released

A Yemeni journalist who was kept in prison for years at the apparent request of the Obama administration has been released in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a, according to local reports.

Abdulelah Haider Shaye was imprisoned in 2010, after reporting that an attack on a suspected al-Qaida training camp in southern Yemen for which the Yemeni government claimed responsibility had actually been carried out by the United States. Shaye had visited the site and discovered pieces of cruise missiles and cluster bombs not found in Yemen's arsenal, according to a Jeremy Scahill dispatch in the Nation.

Shaye was arrested in August 2010 and charged, the following month, with being an al-Qaida operative himself. He was known for his ability to make contacts with extremist groups, skills that led to regular work reporting for western media outlets such as ABC News and the New York Times. At his trial, his reporting work was marshaled as evidence of terrorist ties. In January 2011, he was sentenced to a five-year term.

The charges against Shaye provoked an outcry among tribal leaders, human-rights activists and fellow journalists. Bowing to the pressure, then-president Ali Abdullah Saleh pardoned Shaye weeks after his sentencing. But in a February 2011 phone call with Saleh, President Barack Obama "expressed his concern over the release" of Shaye. The pardon was revoked.

Utterly disgraceful, as is anyone who supports the man.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Heh. First amendment only applies on american soil.
This is some pretty fucked up shit.

[Doktor Howl]

Yeah, it's like having Nixon and Kennedy in the same man's head, gibbering at each other.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Well, fuck.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Yeah, anyone who thinks Obama is on their side needs to remember that he's a politician.

[Junkenstein]

Yeah, anyone who thinks Obama is on their side needs to remember that he's a politician.

To be fair, Anyone that thinks any politician is on "Their side" probably needs help for their mental health issues.

[Suu]

Yeah, anyone who thinks Obama is on their side needs to remember that he's a politician.

To be fair, Anyone that thinks any politician is on "Their side" probably needs help for their mental health issues.

DING DING DING DING DING!

WE HAVE A WINNER!

[P3nT4gR4m]

Politics: The act of voting for which slimy bastard you'd like to get fucked in the ass by for the next couple of years

There's no box for "Not being fucked in the ass" so I don't tick any

Apparently this makes me part of the problem

Unlike people who keep voting for what they hope will turn out to be the smallest dick

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Yeah, anyone who thinks Obama is on their side needs to remember that he's a politician.

To be fair, Anyone that thinks any politician is on "Their side" probably needs help for their mental health issues.

That's pretty much what I just said.

[Junkenstein]

Yeah, anyone who thinks Obama is on their side needs to remember that he's a politician.

To be fair, Anyone that thinks any politician is on "Their side" probably needs help for their mental health issues.

That's pretty much what I just said.

I know, sometimes people tend to start thinking that the "other guy" will fix shit instead so it seemed worth stating.

[Left]

Politics: The act of voting for which slimy bastard you'd like to get fucked in the ass by for the next couple of years

There's no box for "Not being fucked in the ass" so I don't tick any

Apparently this makes me part of the problem

Unlike people who keep voting for what they hope will turn out to be the smallest dick

I do vote.  It's the least I can do.  I really mean that.

[GrannySmith]

Politics: The act of voting for which slimy bastard you'd like to get fucked in the ass by for the next couple of years

There's no box for "Not being fucked in the ass" so I don't tick any

Apparently this makes me part of the problem

Unlike people who keep voting for what they hope will turn out to be the smallest dick

100% agree
plus as long as politicians are paid by others than the public, they don't work for us so what's the point.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Politics: The act of voting for which slimy bastard you'd like to get fucked in the ass by for the next couple of years

There's no box for "Not being fucked in the ass" so I don't tick any

Apparently this makes me part of the problem

Unlike people who keep voting for what they hope will turn out to be the smallest dick

100% agree
plus as long as politicians are paid by others than the public, they don't work for us so what's the point.

FUCKING BINGO

If you wanted to expand on this I think it would be a perfect theme to include in the Bitter Tea project. Not to be singleminded, but I think that's a really important element.

[Left]

Politics: The act of voting for which slimy bastard you'd like to get fucked in the ass by for the next couple of years

There's no box for "Not being fucked in the ass" so I don't tick any

Apparently this makes me part of the problem

Unlike people who keep voting for what they hope will turn out to be the smallest dick

100% agree
plus as long as politicians are paid by others than the public, they don't work for us so what's the point.

FUCKING BINGO

If you wanted to expand on this I think it would be a perfect theme to include in the Bitter Tea project. Not to be singleminded, but I think that's a really important element.

Would being able to cut their pay for bad performance help?
*Shrug*.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Politics: The act of voting for which slimy bastard you'd like to get fucked in the ass by for the next couple of years

There's no box for "Not being fucked in the ass" so I don't tick any

Apparently this makes me part of the problem

Unlike people who keep voting for what they hope will turn out to be the smallest dick

100% agree
plus as long as politicians are paid by others than the public, they don't work for us so what's the point.

FUCKING BINGO

If you wanted to expand on this I think it would be a perfect theme to include in the Bitter Tea project. Not to be singleminded, but I think that's a really important element.

Would being able to cut their pay for bad performance help?
*Shrug*.

Simply knowing that their employment, and funding for promoting future employment, was dependent on satisfying the needs of their constituents, would be a good start.