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Personally, I think he's playing his side of the story pretty well. It's hard to demonize the nice geek kid, a least with the tech community. The espionage ch
by joshuaellinger 13y ago
Personally, I think he's playing his side of the story pretty well. It's hard to demonize the nice geek kid, a least with the tech community.
The espionage charges reveal how awful Obama, really all of Washington, is on the Bill of Rights. I think this whole thing is going to backfire on them.
- alexqgb 13y agoIt's already started. Tonight, on stage at the Verizon center in DC, Mick Jagger said "I'm not sure if President Obama is here tonight, but I'm sure he's listening in." Maybe it's just me, but this comes across as far more damaging than garden-variety mockery. It's like the authority and mystique of the office are just evaporating. And forget about "repairing relations with the rest of the world." Unlike the cock-up in Iraq, this effects everyone, everywhere, directly. Backfire squared.
- joepub 13y agoHeh. In all fairness, it's arguable the UK does even more spying that the US. But your point is well taken. The US is supposed to be a model for a free society. Mass surveillance could be imagined as "un-American". But the president thinks it's an acceptable practice. Obama followers: You've been had.
- alexqgb 13y agoUpdate: Apparently Jagger's jab drew boos. I suspect there were a lot of people in the room who are deeply invested in the politics that were being mocked from the stage.