Pic of the Moment: Sean Hannity: Hypocritical Partisan Hack

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34. Durn. Never thunk 'o that. But I did find Obama's statment from 2006 I was looking for

when he, as Senator Obama, voted against confirming Hayden as CIA director in protest of the Bush administration's illegal and unconstitutional abrogation of the right of Americans to be free of unwarranted intrusion into their lives by NSA's illegal (and quite limited by this administration's standards) information gathering.

"I have no doubt that General Hayden will be confirmed. But I am going to reluctantly vote against him to send a signal to this administration that even in these circumstances, even in these trying times, President Bush is not above the law. No President is above the law. I am voting against Mr. Hayden in the hope that he will be more humble before the great weight of responsibility that he has not only to protect our lives but to protect our democracy.

Americans fought a Revolution in part over the right to be free from unreasonable searches–to ensure that our Government could not come knocking in the middle of the night for no reason. We need to find a way forward to make sure we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy and liberty of innocent Americans. We have to find a way to give the President the power he needs to protect us, while making sure he does not abuse that power. It is possible to do that. We have done it before. We could do it again."

Senator Obama

Given the relative positions of power and responsibility of Obama and Hannity, I must say that, of the two hypocrites, Obama is the bigger, and certainly the more dangerous.

Time, Mr President, to get to working on that great IngSoc invention: The memory hole. Or, perhaps better, time to try and recall that you were once a principled man, and to re-embrace those principles which protect a free society.