Hey Obama, Get Your Head Out of Your Asperger's!

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

News Commentary, Progressive, Liberal, Midterms, Resistance, Indivisible, Government, Democrat, Presidential, Debate, News, Election, Campaign, Politics

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2010

⏱️ 41 minutes

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We discuss Wikileaks, then BG diagnoses Obama as being the victim of his own high-functioning autistic experiment, working with good intentions to undo the "Imperial Presidency". [BG then gets so mad at Congress that we actually have to bleep her.] Why FOX news is like the Catholic Church, and DG tells of the best jobs program you've never heard of. More at professionalleft.blogspot.comSupport the show

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0:00.0	This is the podcast for December 3rd, 2010.
0:02.9	It's not safe for work.
0:04.4	Recorded live from the WikiLeaks Burn Book and Nail Salon.
0:07.6	It's the professional effort with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.
0:24.3	Can we learn anything from this whole WikiLeaks thing?
0:26.8	It's that diplomat is the new hairdresser.
0:30.4	They're just the most... Diplomats are just seemed to be the most catty gossips on the planet.
0:35.8	I tell you, go to any business, any government office business, church, any organization that has more than two people working there and dump their email.
0:45.1	Yeah.
0:45.6	And you'll find that two people are talking about the boss in exactly that language, you know, thin skin prick, doesn't like, you know, he thinks he's authoritarian, he thinks he's the boss of everything.
0:55.7	He's a pussy or she.
0:57.6	This is not, this is not revelatory that people talk about egotistical world leaders in terms that are less than flattering.
1:06.5	And so it's going to be interesting to see if anyone stops Julian Assange before the Bank of America hard drive is opened up.
1:14.6	I mean, we know where the real power is.
1:17.0	It's not with the ambassador's office from Yemen, you know.
1:21.6	And if you really, really want to stop people from getting a glimpse at how politics really works and how power really
1:29.4	operates.
1:30.5	Step one, go back in time several hundred years.
1:33.4	Step two, kill Niccolo Machiavelli before he writes the prince.
1:36.8	Right, right.
1:37.3	There's nothing in there that wasn't current and very clear in the prince by Machiavelli.
1:43.6	Nicole Bell of Crooks and Liars had a really good comment via email that she gave me
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