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(11,464 posts)I wouldn't want a river to remain still.
Nor a redwood seed to remain just a seed
a person grows and evolves
this isn't a stereotype like Ronald Reagan absolutist.
this is a real, living human being.
leftstreet
(36,106 posts)Why is it always the Democrats rushing to the right? Why don't GOPers ever 'evolve' to the left?
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)what does right and left have to do with it.
It's correct to need drones (as the Oregon senator said)
and as Benjamin Franklin said "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"
He seems to have been okay with drones in this statement.
To keep a republic, one has to save it from terrorism and anarchy.
NOVA_Dem
(620 posts)Obama knew what GWB was doing when he made that statement. This is who he presented himself to be to America.
datasuspect
(26,591 posts)gawd
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Apparently, nothing does.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)"Let me say it as simply as I can: Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency,"
http://www.bing.com/search?q=obmama+transparency+touchstone&form=MOZSBR&pc=MOZI
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)-NDAA section 1021 provides for the indefinite detention of US citizens without trial or representation
-7400+ Occupiers arrested, zero wall streeters
-HR347 makes protesting where there are secret service present a federal crime with up to 10 years in prison...Obama assigns permanent SS protection to himself and W Bush
-FBI and DHS have been spying upon Occupy from the beginning, and lied about having done so
-DHS makes police agencies into tentacles via the iWatch program
-DHS are supplying police and sheriff agencies with gear still in current use by the military, sherrifs with armored vehicles
-FISA was just signed into another five years of activity
I could go on
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)NOVA_Dem
(620 posts)I posted this when the news was leaked that Holder's Justice department provided questionable legal reasoning for Obama to execute US Citizens without due process.