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EFF Says Obama Warrantless Wiretap Defense Is Worse than Bush
SonicSpike writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation has just said that 'In the warrantless wiretapping case, Obama DOJ's new arguments are worse than Bush's.'"
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What the Dixie Chicks experienced came from clear channel communications, by proxy for the Bush administration. Big difference.
fixed that for ya.
I heard the sentiment you are stating there a lot when this happened...and it's complete horseshit IMO.
My mother and my sister are huge Dixie Chicks fans...and did not care that they said that. I don't know anyone that did. And before you perpetuate a stereotype by saying 'how most Dixie Chicks fans are'...my mother and sister would probably fit into your view of what a DC fan is.
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Tell that to the guys over there getting shot at. Do you think it's any less of a war to them? How many of those guys planting road side bombs received comfort from Natalie Maines' words?
She wasn't on a USO tour, and she wasn't talking about troops. You must be one of those people who think its impossible to criticize the policies that our government decides to enact which result in armed conflicts without denigrating the military volunteers who are doing their sworn duty.
The reason they are fighting (in theory at least) is to that Maines CAN say what she wants to say about the President. How can you not understand that?
Tell that to Orwell. I posted his quote, not mine. Then again, what would the author of 1984 and Animal Farm know about totalitarianism.
The comment was not about Orwell, it's about the flaw in the logic that would conclude that speaking ill of the government is disloyal in a time of war (which we're not in), so it must also, in your mind, apply to times of armed conflict. Which never end. And, therefore, we can never speak ill of the government.
Twice! He was one Hell of a governor. He truly united both Democrats and Republicans in this state. He compromised and received compromise from the Democrats. Unfortunately, that doesn't work on a federal level. Take vouchers for example. You know, that program that gives money to poor kids so they can have the same opportunity as the rich kids? Opposed by Democrats because it had Bush's name on it.
The irony there, which you apparently miss, is that the plan redistributes wealth. A GOP mantra against that sort of thing has been somewhat of a constant, irritating drone since mid-summer 2008.
Bush probably would have had more success on the Federal level if he hadn't quickly moved towards a "you're either with me or against me" philosophy of governance. But, at that point he was more or less the pawn of the RNC and its real movers and shakers, so I don't know how much real control he had over that.
You must be too young to remember Carter, Nixon, Ford or Johnson, and too ignorant to know about of the other truly failed Presidents in America's history (like the other Johnson).
Do you always think in absolutes? "One of the worst" is not the same as "the worst". Ranking "the worst" would depend on a lot of variable balancing, but I don't know anyone with more than half a brain who doesn't think that Bush is definitely mingling at the bottom of the list. Hard to even find people who will freely offer that they voted for him these days.
Remember Greenspan? You know, the guy who is credited with one of the largest economic expansions in US history? What President was he under again?
Oh you mean that guy who now freely admits he missed one of the most catastrophic feedback loops in the history of modern economics?
(actually, it was four presidents, but the largest economic expansion happened under the last one.... well until Democrats took over Congress again)
I think you need to look at that again, and see which presidents had GDPs and other economic indicators that ended higher than when they initially took office.
Finally, as to your rant against Texas. Have you ever been here?
Yes, I have immediate family members that live there. I didn't say it was a bad place, I said that people like you give it a bad image. You'd help more by typing and speaking less.
You do realize that Texas is doing better economically than most of the nation right now?
While Texas does indeed have number of industries that aren't doing poorly, that also isn't saying a whole lot in the current economic climate.