Oh, really?!?

[resident_evil]

While the president recognized the surveillance program has grown in recent years, he also strongly defended those who work in the intelligence community, saying they do not abuse power. "After all," he said, "the folks at NSA and other intelligence agencies are our neighbors and our friends." http://www.nationaljournal.com/whit...ld-give-americans-greater-confidence-20140117

So are the folks at the IRS and look what they did to good God fearing Tea Partiers.

If the NSA must be reimagined so should the IRS.

 

[drivebyheckler]

And anyone who believes totalitarian Barack Obama is going to rein in "our neighbors and friends" is an idiot. My god how dumbed down has America become when a president comes out and dares to spew such nonsense?

 

[resident_evil]

And anyone who believes totalitarian Barack Obama is going to rein in "our neighbors and friends" is an idiot. My god how dumbed down has America become when a president comes out and dares to spew such nonsense?

Obama's real attention hovers around the inane. I don't know that he is a totalitarian as much as that the system is totalitarian. The system is empowering him to be totalitarian like. This trend is one that was started by Bush, and the conservatives were warned about subsequent administrations' empowerment, but Cheney and company never thought the white man would not be in the office. Obama and his ragged Hugo Chavez impersonation are now further empowering the next administration to step even more on individual rights for the purposes of the "collective" benefit.

For the moment Rand Paul seems to be the most serious thinker in politics; an only lonely position to be in apparently.