Barack Obama: "I'm really good at killing people".

[Matteo]

http://tinyurl.com/nae6ct6

BARACK Obama is alleged to have joked about killing militants with drone strikes in a controversial book about his 2012 re-election campaign.

The book, Double Down: Game Change 2012, claims that Obama bragged "I'm really good at killing people" to White House aides while discussing drone strikes, the Daily Mail reports .

Yeah, it was a joke, but you've already got people taking it out of context to further pursue their own agendas.

[AkydefGoldberg]

In poor taste considering the civilian casualties of drone strikes and the further problems it causes, i.e radicalisation. With his strong justification for using drones in the first place, this comment doesn't help and shows a cavalier attitude towards a serious issue.

Sure, they've had good success recently in killing Pakistani-Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud last Friday but that attack has consequences for Pakistan. They'll get the brunt of the blowback from the drone strike.

So much for the "anti-war" President eh?

[Kyle]

I wouldn't have said that.

[Everlong]

I always question the legitimacy of these types of sources. Obviously if he said it it was a dumb thing to say, but I'd take this report with a grain of salt.

[Matteo]

^ The authors behind the text are fairly reputable. But yeah, maybe he said something along those lines and it was deliberately taken out of context or highly exaggerated.

[Viazon]

Pfft. I'm better.