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[quote]undermining the US Constitution and rule of law and dangerously eroding American civil liberties.[/quote]
Now you are going hyperbolic.
This stuff has been around long before Obama. Bush/Cheney took it to a new level. And there IS a difference between initiating it and choosing not to stop it when it’s already in place.
You seem to be absolutely fixated on this issue, Allan.
So what should he do? Sacrifice his second term (where he may actually have the power to do the right thing) just to demonstrate commitment to some idealistic principle, even though he’ll accomplish next to nothing?
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Pri: Hyperbolic and fixated? Yeah, I am and have no problem with being so.
Read this NYT article regarding the Obama Administration’s pursuit of whistleblowers and then tell me: (1) We all shouldn’t be fixating on this shit, and (2) Obama’s second term would feature a more “principled” stand. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/us/politics/12leak.html?pagewanted=1&hp
Read Ellsberg’s comment in its entirety, with a special focus on the fact that this prosecution was essentially to prevent public knowledge of the massive waste going on at NSA. Anyone remember Obama’s pledge of “transparency”?
And, pri, yup, I don’t play chess at all, but I love me some checkers! I git out the shine and me and Ma play till the cows come home.
