"I did vote for a candidate in 2008 who opposed the Bush administration's massive build-up of surveillance infrastructure: Obama" Did you have any reason to th

"I did vote for a candidate in 2008 who opposed the Bush administration's massive build-up of surveillance infrastructure: Obama" Did you have any reason to think that was true, other than what Obama was saying at the time? "the other candidate" Which other candidate? Here are some of the people who were running in the 2008 election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_third_party_and_independent_presidential_candidates,_2008 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_third_party_and_... You had a lot of choices then. You also had a lot of choices in 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_third_party_and_independent_presidential_candidates,_2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_third_party_and_...