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That's what happens when you select a president based on a cult of personality combined with a practice of labeling critics as "racists". If the president were
by InclinedPlane 13y ago
That's what happens when you select a president based on a cult of personality combined with a practice of labeling critics as "racists". If the president were still GWB when all this stuff came to light there would be a constant drum beat of news coverage rolling into the next congressional and presidential elections where it would have a huge impact. Instead it'll take months and months of hedging around with the idea that maybe, kinda, sorta, perhaps Obama isn't the second coming and is actually responsible for instituting or retaining a lot of horrible government policies.
- drill_sarge 13y agoI don't think the president has much influence on such a situation, you should look at Keith Alexander, not Obama/Bush/whoever.
- InclinedPlane 13y agoApparently the president can direct government workers to ignore federal law, so I'm not buying your claim.
- yoran 13y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but Obama is kind of the CEO of the government, isn't he? So he's the person that should be held accountable for stuff going wrong (or right) in his government.
- a3n 13y ago> That's what happens when you select a president based on a cult of personality What President since World War I has not been elected on a cult of personality and lies?
- probably_wrong 13y ago> If the president were still GWB when all this stuff came to light there would be a constant drum beat of news coverage rolling into the next congressional I don't think this is the right approach to the problem. Without getting too much into politics, if the general public didn't really care when torture was considered fair game nor when it was proved that the whole "WMDs in Irak" was made up (and let's remember that soldiers actually died because of that), I think they certainly wouldn't have cared about Snowden either.