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For anyone who wants to let this slide, how would you have reacted[1] if the headline had started "Bush gives himself..." and it had been published 6 years ago?
by nirvana 14y ago
For anyone who wants to let this slide, how would you have reacted[1] if the headline had started "Bush gives himself..." and it had been published 6 years ago?
Cause 6 years from now it might be someone you don't like in office, but the power will still be there.
Just as the PATRIOT ACT still is (expanded and extended by Obama), the TSA is (now with porno-scanners!), the domestic spying that happened under Bush is still going on (now retroactively "legal" and much more secret!), etc.
[1] In case my comment isn't obviously nonpartisan, I am equally offended at this in both situations, and believe that Bush wanted this power too.
- justinschuh 14y agoIf it started with "Bush gives himself..." I think I'd be doing the same thing I'm doing now. That is, sit here wondering how exactly anyone is interpreting this executive order the way the headline frames it. The truthiness ranks right up there with "death panels."
- nirvana 14y agoThere really are death panels in obamacare. I read the bill before it was made secret, when this issue was brought out. The bill creates committees which decide who gets health care and who is left to die. That's a plain fact. The response to airing of this fact is that Obama, et al. started spinning it as an objection to "end of life counseling". In other words, they lied about what the criticism was about, and once they did it all the liberals started acting like it was absurd to complain about "death panels". There are people who I've met who bring up "Death panels" as an absurd complaint who don't even know that the bill creates committees who regulate who gets health care and who doen't. (not "is this treatment effective" but "should retired people get this treatment since they are no longer paying taxes?" with the stated political purpose of letting those who aren't paying taxes die. The major objection brought up time and time again from the left was that "society" was "wasting money on old people".) So here's the tragedy: There are so many people who have heard such propaganda that they won't even consider the fact that there are death panels because they've been told it was a lie. Even though it was right there in black and white for anyone to read in the bill (before it was made secret until passage.)
- justinschuh 14y agoI can't tell from your comment history if you're a pathological liar or just a really persistent troll.
- jinushaun 14y agoEvery time Fox News gets riled up by something Obama does, I always ask myself, how would I feel if Bush/Cheney did the same thing? In this case, I don't have a problem with the executive order.
- tseabrooks 14y agoIt IS someone I don't like in office right now, and I still don't think this executive order is an issue.
- tzs 14y agoI would have reacted the same way if this is been done under President Bush. I would have noted the article is from RT.com, recalled that they are a horribly inaccurate source for anything, and flagged the article.