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Hillary Clinton: "We Need To Talk Sensibly About Spying"
dryriver writes "The Guardian reports: 'Hillary Clinton has called for a "sensible adult conversation", to be held in a transparent way, about the boundaries of state surveillance highlighted by the leaking of secret NSA files by the whistleblower Edward Snowden. In a boost to Nick Clegg, the British deputy prime minister, who is planning to start conversations within government about the oversight of Britain's intelligence agencies, the former US secretary of state said it would be wrong to shut down a debate. Clinton, who is seen as a frontrunner for the 2016 US presidential election, said at Chatham House in London: "This is a very important question. On the intelligence issue, we are democracies thank goodness, both the US and the UK. We need to have a sensible adult conversation about what is necessary to be done, and how to do it, in a way that is as transparent as it can be, with as much oversight and citizens' understanding as there can be."'"
Unfortunately every time the republicans win they do think that they have won a revolution, and act accordingly. Obama is not moving anything noticeably to the left. he is undoing some of the insanity of his republican predecessor, and has not even moved us back to the position we were in with Bill Clinton, you know the last time this country was prosperous. Obama is trying to govern in a sensible way, he was elected by democrats and centrists, but he has to be president of everyone. You will notice he has tried to maintain normality in the major partisan issues, until there is enough popular support for him to act. This has drawn the ire of the democrats, but he does it anyway because he is a good president who understands what a president should be.As an example he would have never done a thing about gun control if a bunch of kids had not been slaughtered and it was only because of a massive public outcry that he attempted to do anything about it. Then he just gave up, because he knows this issue will do nothing but cause more division and partisanship amongst the people. Republicans cannot comprehend a president who tries to balance what the people of the country want him to do with his own ideals and convictions, so they continue to spew non-sense that he is coming after their guns.