1 You actually read an e-mail from Obama?  Haven't you heard of Snow Crash? 

2 I mostly stopped reading science fiction in the 1980's. I haven't read that one.

3 And Fnord.

4 Hehe, isn't someone special.

5 A perfect example of how "Let me be clear" is the signal for "The next sentence is a lie."

6 These days when it comes to Obama, we don't need signals to find the lies. Everything he says is a lie.

7 Honestly, the only thing that surprised me about his response is that it didn't end with a request for donations.

-j

8

 The email came from info@messages.whitehouse.gov and it would have been illegal to ask for contributions.

9

 The email came from info@messages.whitehouse.gov and it would have been illegal to ask for contributions.

When did the letter of the law stop the Obama Administration from doing what they wanted?

Also, Obama might be telling the truth - he does believe the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms...By individual Libyans and Syrians.

(In the interest of full disclosure - I approved the toppling of Khaddafi or Qadaffi or Gaddafi, which was an act that was long past due.  But I despised how Obama handled everything else related to that - and I was under no illusions on what would happen, unlike chief executives and chief executive-aspirants.)

10 Toppoling Gaddafi was "long overdue" ... except that he "got religion" after watching Sadam getting pulled from that spider hole.  After which he abandoned his WMD program or at least the nuclear part of it, which among many other things exposed the Khan network (I've read that we got a hold of China sourced plans for a HEU implosion device that go down to the shop floor level, tighten this bolt to this torque, using this type of thread locker (e.g. Loctite)).

In return for his admittedly forced cooperation our government arranged his deposing and brutal execution; we can imagine how enthusiastic others will be to cooperate with us in the future.  Ditto for tossing Mubarak aside so quickly, which is playing out so well right now.  Granted, after Mubarak avoiding famine has been a question of "Is the military willing and able to kill enough members of the Muslim Brotherhood?", but it's hardly clear going through all this mess was needed in the first place.