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Obama supporters: Complicit in Warrantless Wiretapping

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  January 23rd, 2009 at 08:15 PM  | 

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The doofuses over at the Gawker empire are throwing temper tantrums over Obama and his support for “warrantless wiretapping.”

Rights for foreign Islamofascists on foreign soil who like to behead Jews, oppress women, and brutally butcher Americans have long been a cause of the far left. For whatever reason, these people have been angry that President Bush oversaw the wiretapping of communications between foreign terrorists and their agents in America. “Orwell!” they shrieked in their post tags. This literally, truly was the boot stomping on our faces, forever. If you’re a terrorist, but who isn’t? I mean even President Obama pals with terrorists. Doesn’t everyone make calls to Al Qaeda every week or so?

So, one asks why they were wetting themselves for The One before they backed him in the election. Gizmodo, like many, claim to have noticed that then-Senator Obama backed President Bush on FISA and, importantly, immunity for firms who participated in… “warrantless wiretapping” programs.

The One could have taken a stand. He could have done the Mr. Smith goes to Washington filibuster of the bill, getting up to talk and not stopping until he was forced to by his colleagues. He could have gone in front of the cameras every day railing against the bill.

Instead, he voted for it.

That left the opponents of the wiretaps with a choice to make. They could have turned on him. They could have stood up for the Fourth Amendment, which they claimed was being violated. They could have stood up against the coming 1984, which they claimed was our future with such wiretapping going on. They could have gotten up and shouted Barack Obama down at every whistle stop he made.

Instead, they voted for him.

Congratuations, guys: You can whine all you want, and you can make all the claims of principle that you want, but by working to elect President Obama, you are complicit in this program now. You had every opportunity to oppose him after he sided with President Bush on FISA, but you did not. You knew what you were getting into, and you did it anyway.

I guess we’re all “Neocons” now.

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  • http://brockwayfamily.spaces.live.com/ Erick Brockway

    I proudly joined the Neocon Brigade, and YOU can too!

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    She was even running for President.

    But the Democrats wanted “change.”

  • EagleWatcher

    n/t

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    …I’m actually kind of relieved that the natural cynicism of the tech community is beginning to reassert itself. After two years of watching them bend their knee to Obama, I was starting to worry that permanent damage would set in.

  • JSobieski

    I mean, all a Russian general needs to do is conference in the Russian embassy in the US, and the call can’t be monitored?

    What sheer idiocy!

  • Vladimir

    …not a single Dem condemned those Dem operatives in Florida that eavesdropped and recorded on a domestic cell phone call.

    IIRC, it was 2004, and a FL congressional race at stake, and they used the information gained on the call to partisan advantage.

    Makes one wonder, who they think is the more threatening enemy, Al Qaeda, or a Republican congressional candidate.

    I think the answer to that one is pretty clear.

  • Raven

    Russian Embassy isn’t “American Soil”

  • JSobieski

    but if saying an apartment across the street from the Russian embassy makes you feel better, lets go with that

  • kuhlmanngj

    Democrats, like Republicans, are not single-issue voters.

    Is there nothing that you can’t spin to make progressives look bad? If Obama casts a liberal vote, then his talk of compromise is just hot air. If Obama casts a conservative vote, then his supporters are a bunch of idiots for nominating him instead of Clinton.

    If Obama ate a sandwich, I’m sure that you could find some way to make it appear sinister or foolish. What do you get out of this echo chamber you’ve set up here?

    So you think that abortion should be illegal. Alright, let’s talk about it. You think that low taxes and a small government are better, fair enough. Let’s talk about it. But if you really think that people who disagree with you on these ideas are insincere, ignorant, duplicitous or even evil, then you’ve been in the echo chamber too long.

    There are hypocrites, selfish creeps, and morons on every side of every issue. I’d congratulate you on your superior detective work in finding so many flaws with the left, except that it’s really not a hard thing to do. Go check out some of the liberal blogs and, whaddayaknow, they’re able to do the same thing for conservatives. Big surprise. Oh, but your gripes are legitimate and theirs aren’t. Riiiiiiight.

    While the far right and far left are congratulating themselves about how awesomely correct they think they are, it’s the folks in the middle who are shaping the future of this country and actually getting things done.

  • Vegas_Rick

    This site is here for conservative Republicans to share our views and ideas. To help support our conservative ideals and values.

    We’re not forming our opinions and ideas for the first time, so we really don’t need input from the squishy middle.

    I really think you might be more comfortable on another site.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    You do all this ‘middle’ talk but all you’ve done since you’ve gotten here is defend President Obama and attack Governor Palin. We already know you’re not being up front with us, and are just another Obamanaut starved for Oxygen and mistrustful of women who achieve political power on their own. And your attitude doesn’t help, either.

    So.. I’m just going to turn off the account now and be done with it. Saves everyone time.

  • Vegas_Rick
  • janis

    Uh, huh. Folks like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, Hillary Clinton, etc. Exactly. And that’s why we are in for a deepening world of hurt. People with no guiding principles other than “Let’s be bipartisan!” Politicians who are looking to broaden and deepen their own voter bases with no thought whatsoever to the good of the country.

    If I’m not mistaken, John McCain has a lovely new group that you can participate in and I’m sure you’d find many more there just like you. What you won’t find are many of us.

  • icbm

    now is the time to keep most things from getting done

    the only thing that should get done is spending cuts, payroll tax cuts, and the abolition or reduction of a variety of programs.

  • barry915barry

    Kuhlmanngi, did you have a point you want to make about THIS specific post? Perhaps referencing the appeals court upholding the warrntless wiretaps and whether or not you agree/disagree? If you want to drone on about driving down the middle of the road, don’t forget that there is oncoming traffic, which, in this country, drives on the right side of the road. Seems to me, that our founding fathers, Lincoln, Teddy R. Reagan, etc. all were certainly not middle-of-the roaders. Please save your non-related posts for open threads or your diary.

  • Jack_Savage

    “…it?s the folks in the middle who are shaping the future of this country and actually getting things done.”

    And that is precisely what we are afraid of.