At last Saturday's White House Correspondents Dinner -- an annual event in which public servants get a chance to freeload with celebrities -- Dad Basher-in-Chief Barack Obama revealed his well-hidden, bloodthirsty nature.
Speaking to guests from a podium bearing the Presidential Seal, Obama jokingly told the Jonas Brothers that he would hunt them down and kill them with his Predator drones.
The joke might be funny if Obama hadn't actually killed anybody with his drones, but the fact is, he has. Lots of people. Including innocent women and children.
According to some estimates, Obama's drone attacks may have killed upwards of 400 civilians-- perhaps as many as 1000 -- in Afghanistan and Pakistan since the time he took office. The Washington based New American Foundation reports that a full one-third of all deaths resulting from drone strikes in the war torn region are civilian deaths.
It was well-reported back in October 2009 that Obama -- even knowing that his drone war was killing an unprecedented numbers of civilians -- gave an executive order to step up drone attacks. On just his third day in office, Obama authorized two drone attacks which killed three children. One for each day as President, a body count which would impress Hannibal Lecter.
Obama's drone joke comes at an especially bad time, right on the heels of a botched bombing attempt of New York's Times Square. The suspect in that case, Pakistani-born Faisal Shahzad, admits to having planted the bomb because he was upset over the high civilian death toll caused by Obama's drones.
Shahzad is not alone in his outrage in Pak-Afghan region, according to many news outlets, and Obama's little joke is certain to throw more fuel on the fire, endangering lives of servicemen abroad and Americans at home.
Like any serial killer on the loose, Obama is a danger to us all. Not only when he's inciting acts of vengeance in the Middle East but also when he spreading hate domestically by singling out groups like non-custodial parents for abuse.
To read more about Obama's joke at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and the fallout, go to: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Obama-Finds-Predator-Drones-Hilarious-1171
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