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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
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 Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:21 pm Post subject: Obama backs extending Patriot Act provisions |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32863188/ns/politics-white_house/
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WASHINGTON - The Obama administration supports extending three key provisions of the Patriot Act that are due to expire at the end of the year, the U.S. Justice Department told Congress in a letter made public Tuesday.
Lawmakers and civil rights groups had been pressing the Democratic administration to say whether it wants to preserve the post-Sept. 11 law's authority to access business records, as well as monitor so-called "lone wolf" terrorists and conduct roving wiretaps. |
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We therefore are at a good point to stop and consider not what U.S. President Barack Obama will do in the realm of foreign policy, but what he has done and is doing. As we have mentioned before, the single most remarkable thing about Obama�s foreign policy is how consistent it is with the policies of former President George W. Bush. This is not surprising. Presidents operate in the world of constraints; their options are limited. Still, it is worth pausing to note how little Obama has deviated from the Bush foreign policy.
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cherrycoke
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I guess this cements the idea that there is no right or left. There's just one party that differs on a few things and the American people choose between them.
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ropebreezy
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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bacasper
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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Remember, over a year before the election, when I posted the thread "Will a Republocrat save us?"
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| You could not fit a sliver of paper in between the ideologies of Dick Cheney and Barack Obama. |
Yes, Obushama sold us "HOPE AND CHANGE": Bail out the banks with trillions to be paid by future generations, and let's "HOPE" we get to keep some of the "CHANGE." |
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ropebreezy
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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Remember, over a year before the election, when I posted the thread "Will a Republocrat save us?" |
I don't, because I wasn't here, but I completely agree.
My conscience is clear though; I voted for Bob Barr. |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| bacasper wrote: |
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Remember, over a year before the election, when I posted the thread "Will a Republocrat save us?"
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| You could not fit a sliver of paper in between the ideologies of Dick Cheney and Barack Obama. |
Yes, Obushama sold us "HOPE AND CHANGE": Bail out the banks with trillions to be paid by future generations, and let's "HOPE" we get to keep some of the "CHANGE." |
I guarantee you that Cheney would not have scrapped the Eastern European missile shield.
Its true though that being in the Executive Branch changes your perspective. Suddenly, you want more tools to effectively do your job, and worry less about pesky civil liberties (after all, you're in the Executive, and you're not going to abuse those tools, are you?). |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting how many on the left would prefer to trash B. Obama to partly rehabilitating W. Bush...
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Kuros: either that or, upon being briefed on the nature of the threat in all its dimensions, the president has merely concurred with his predecessor.
Have you seen this story out of Denver? |
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bacasper
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| bacasper wrote: |
| ropebreezy wrote: |
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Remember, over a year before the election, when I posted the thread "Will a Republocrat save us?"
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| You could not fit a sliver of paper in between the ideologies of Dick Cheney and Barack Obama. |
Yes, Obushama sold us "HOPE AND CHANGE": Bail out the banks with trillions to be paid by future generations, and let's "HOPE" we get to keep some of the "CHANGE." |
I guarantee you that Cheney would not have scrapped the Eastern European missile shield. |
In fairness, I have already conceded that may be a distinguishing point between the two administrations.
Would you buy a piece of cardboard? |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
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