Originally Posted by Bucco

to our past President on activities like this. I saw an interview on "Morning Joe" this morning and just wanted to share. They even discussed....can you imagine something like this under a Bush administration...

"He was just a boy.

Let's start there. He was an American boy, born in America. Though he'd lived in Yemen since he was about seven, he was still an American citizen, which should have made it harder for the United States to kill him.

It didn't."

Read more: Abdulrahman al-Awlaki Death - Tom Junod on the Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama - Esquire

I will wait for this to become MSM fodder but I doubt that happens. The word "hypocrisy" comes to mind.

"Obama's Administration Killed a 16-Year-Old American and Didn't Say Anything About It. This Is Justice?

"In the August issue, Tom Junod examines an entirely new application of power on the part of the president — the targeted killing of individuals deemed to be threats to the country. So far, thousands have been killed, most prominent among them Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki. The decisions to target are made and the lethal missions are carried out without any public accountability, even when those targeted are Americans and even when, on one occasion, one of those Americans was a teenager. Over the course of this week, Junod considers five of the larger implications of his story on The Politics Blog. —Eds."

This next from the author of the article is typical of this administration, on any issue...

"I spent the better part of this past spring researching and writing a story for the August issue of Esquire entitled "The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama," which explores how President Obama's expansive embrace of the power to kill individuals identified as America's enemies has transformed not only his presidency but probably all American presidencies to follow. I conducted over 40 interviews with over 35 people — including former administration officials who could speak with authority about how targeting decisions are made — and tried to understand the moral reasoning of an administration that speaks as though nothing could be harder than killing individuals and behaves as though nothing could be easier, and carries out what amounts to executions on a mass scale."

This is not necessarily a crticism of the policy, but a critique of the administration and its continuing hypocrisy. Too bad this President has obviously done away with the general Presidential press conference or we could as him about it