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New strategy: Make it about Bush. Obama is at least as culpable b/c he would have had a good excuse to raise a red flag about the improprieties upon taking of
by grandalf 13y ago
New strategy: Make it about Bush. Obama is at least as culpable b/c he would have had a good excuse to raise a red flag about the improprieties upon taking office.
- willvarfar 13y agoIf it gives Obama a scape-goat and lets him turn himself into the restorer, so be it.
- kamjam 13y agoI think 4.5 years in office is a little late for scape-goats now. It's not like he can use the "I didn't know, I'll put it right" excuse.
- willvarfar 13y agoI don't mind if he does say he didn't know, as long as he puts it right
- mcherm 13y agoI suspect that Obama may actually be more culpable. But I can't read an article in a major US newspaper about the legal opinions in the Obama white house, so I can't start excoriating him for ignoring (and overriding) legal council. I can (and hereby do) excoriate him for conducting the least open and transparent white house I have experienced. As certain top politicians have pointed out[1], this is a terrible way to run a government. [1] http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOp...
- dllthomas 13y agoSpying-While-Black?
- snowwrestler 13y agoFirst of all that's not a new strategy. :-) Second, the article doesn't mention Obama at all. I agree with you that he's just as culpable for keeping things going, but that's not really on topic. The point here is that we have been given a glimpse behind the scenes of a particular moment in time. There's no need to put a partisan spin on that.
- grandalf 13y agoIn my opinion the political spin is the article's failure to mention Obama at all. I was attempting to draw attention to it.
- snowwrestler 13y agoThere is no reason to mention Obama because the scope of the article is an historical document that dates from the Bush Administration.
- jbooth 13y agoThere have been like 5,000 articles pointing at spying under Obama in the past week, and a remarkable lack of liberals defending him for it. I'd suggest that you're the one bringing political spin into the equation.
- grandalf 13y agoI don't know what your point is. I am neither liberal or conservative, but I'd prefer to have both presidents held accountable for a program that both strongly support.