“Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will.”

This portrait of an American president signing off -- week after week after week after week -- on the extrajudicial murder of people all over the world is presented as something completely uncontroversial. Indeed, the main thrust of the story is not the fact that human beings -- including many women, children and men who have no connection whatsoever to "terrorism," alleged or otherwise -- are being regularly killed by the United States government; no, the main focus is how this program illustrates Barack Obama's "evolving" style of leadership during the course of his presidency. That's what's really important. The murders -- the eviscerated bodies, the children with their skulls bashed in, the pregnant women burned alive in their own homes -- are just background. Unimportant. Non-controversial.

Via Van der Leun.

I'm not sure that this carefuly staged "leak" of Obama as an avenging Superhero killing the bad guys is going to work out for his as a re-election ploy. It says something about him that's somehow both small and repellent. Why is the President doing this; something that if it is done should be done by the military? That's their job. Good leaders set policy and objectives. When the leader starts choosing the target, you know that no one is paying attention to strategy and policy.   That's when you know you don't have a "leader" but a dilettante.