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In reply to the discussion: Be outraged at Obama because the media tells you to be outraged at Obama. [View all]rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)31. But if you think about it, it would be nice if we just let the govment take care of us.
They would promise us security and we give them our freedoms and liberties. The only problem I see is that our founders are going to kick our asses for fucking up a good thing.
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Uzair
Jun 2013
OP
Sorry to destroy your entire premise, but yes, I was attached to SUBLANT in Norfolk
DisgustipatedinCA
Jun 2013
#54
No, disgustipatedinCA stated "I don't take real threats to our freedoms lightly"
GoneFishin
Jun 2013
#58
I so agree. Fascism is actually so much easier. Let the State keep you secure and take care of you.
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#36
No, you shouldn't be outraged at what the M$M reports. This is the 3rd time in 10 years the meta
uponit7771
Jun 2013
#4
I want it to be reported to the nth degree. Maybe something will be done about it. nt
Mojorabbit
Jun 2013
#39
I'd take the cottage industry of smearing Greenwald with a sack of salt...
Luminous Animal
Jun 2013
#50
I have an OP that reveals the fodder that feeds Greenwald's smear mongers:
Luminous Animal
Jun 2013
#83
So did Susan Rice. Publicly and wholeheartedly. Glenn, btw, did no such thing.
Luminous Animal
Jun 2013
#34
That's a bogus argument. I dont watch TV and they sure didnt influence me during the
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#10
Because Obama got the warrants and Bush did not. Not that a warrant makes it right but if I want...
uponit7771
Jun 2013
#19
If Bush broke a law but wasnt prosecuted then it doesnt make a crap that he broke the law.
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#25
Bush broke the law so they wrote a law making what he did "legal". Nice racket.
Luminous Animal
Jun 2013
#51
Basically yeah. Just some chicken littling imo unless someone provides a better argument.
BenzoDia
Jun 2013
#18
The Democrats had a happy over the thrashing of the last three scandal flops. So they dredged this
freshwest
Jun 2013
#21
Some of us think this is a big deal, and there should be a stop put to it, before we are
quinnox
Jun 2013
#22
But if you think about it, it would be nice if we just let the govment take care of us.
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#31
Look, if you could wave a magic wand and suddenly Romney was in the Oval office today
Puzzledtraveller
Jun 2013
#32
K&R'd. But scandals against a Demcratic POTUS is what sells here, not caring about the poor.
freshwest
Jun 2013
#79
I'm outraged because the NSA is spying on Americans with Obama's approval.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jun 2013
#59
I'm no more nor less outraged at Obama for this than I was Dubya for the same incursion
tavalon
Jun 2013
#66
FYI: DU has been outraged about spying on Americans well before there was Obama
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Jun 2013
#67
2014. I don't want to read any whining from you lot. You are doing more damage than the republicans
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2013
#78
I am outraged that Obama hasn't done a thing about it his entire time in office. n/t
Fire Walk With Me
Jun 2013
#82