November 9, 2012

With friends like these - a twofer

First -- from Russia Today:
Assange: Reelected Obama a 'wolf in sheep's clothing'
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sees no reason to celebrate the reelection of US President Barack Obama. The US aggressively pursued and “persecuted” the whistleblower site under a Democratic administration, he explained.

“Obama seems to be a nice man, and that is precisely the problem,” the 41-year-old told AFP, speaking from his room in London’s Ecuadorian embassy.

“It's better to have a sheep in wolf's clothing than a wolf in sheep's clothing,” he said. “All of the activities against WikiLeaks by the United States have occurred under an Obama administration.”
Second -- from Politico:
Oliver Stone: ‘I find Obama scary’
Each presidential cycle gets shrouded in the ultimate question, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”

In Oliver Stone’s new book — “The Untold History of the United States” — the filmmaker, along with historian Peter Kuznick, argues that, “The country Obama inherited was indeed in shambles, but Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse.”
Jeez -- when you lose Assange and Stone, you are really disconnected from the progressive base. Posted by DaveH at November 9, 2012 8:49 PM
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