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In reply to the discussion: President's 'rat out your co-worker' plan, unlikely to work experts say [View all]Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)Sorry, that's just how it is. It the imaginations of some Bush represents the ultimate evil, and always somewhere further down the road that we happen to be currently. But that's just a fantasy. Obama has taken the programs that Bush and Clinton started, and he has taken them to a place that aught to leave even the most die-hard fantatic party loyalist positively cringing in horror.
And he's our guy -- only he's not and never has been.
In any case, Bush (as despicable as he was) didn't claim the power to murder Americans, at will, any time and any place, with no congressional oversight, no judicial process, no limits but his own secret unaccountable judgement. That's the kind of power reserved for Kings and tyrants. Nor did Bush claim the authority to spy on every single American, and to database their private information and communications in open defiance of the Constitution. So let's leave off with the "almost like Bush" nonsense -- it serves no purpose but to minimize what we are dealing with today.