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Showing Original Post only (View all)Alan Grayson says, "This is not about President Obama. This is not about Snowden. [View all]
This is not about President Obama. This is not about Snowden. This is about us. This is about our conception of how we want to live as a free people. And again, it grossly offends me to have the government surveilling individuals' e-mails, their photos that they post online, every single telephone call that they make.
This comment was made to a question posed by Martin Bashir:
Mr. Grayson, do you find it a little bit galling to see conservatives who embraced these programs and, in fact, far worse, and now they suddenly have a problem with this because, of course, there's a Democrat in the White House.
Interesting that Republican Conservatives embraced the NSA/FBI spying when a Republican was president, and now the Democratic Conservatives are embracing the spying because a Democrat is the president. Can we spell hypocrisy?
The discussion between Bashir and Grayson was on MSNBC and forwarded via email by "Alan Grayson for Congress".
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Alan Grayson says, "This is not about President Obama. This is not about Snowden. [View all]
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
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People posting fast and furiously mimicking the Corp-Media's attempts at distraction.
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#21
There are extreme partisans on both sides, but most Democrats I know, and a majority on DU have
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#18
Grayson is one cool dude. Seriously it's time to stop playing politics and address the issue. nt
limpyhobbler
Jun 2013
#24
I guess that makes Grayson a "Paulite" and a "racist" instead of a StellarWind detractor
TalkingDog
Jun 2013
#29
Large numbers of the top members of the press know who's paying their salaries
Babel_17
Jun 2013
#71
knr - YES some of the Republicans are being hypocrites - but I never thought I would see Al Franken
Douglas Carpenter
Jun 2013
#55
Be interesting seeing them try to fit Grayson under the Partisan Apologist Bus
DirkGently
Jun 2013
#61
But but but, Greenwald once associated with a porn site! RELEVANT and undermines concerns!
DRoseDARs
Jun 2013
#63