Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'
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Re: Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'
#2This probably isn't the change his supporters had hoped for.
Re: Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'
#3It so desperately disappointing when a man who was elected largely for his understanding and respect for the constitution turns out to have been systematically dumping over it for the last few years. Like so many people, I expected better of Obama. He's not the man I thought he was.
Re: Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'
#4wow. just yesterday they tried to pin it on Bush.
Re: Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'
#5And then one year later Obama, the Nobel prize for peace winner, gave the 'freedom medal' to Merkel praising her:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/06/07/remark...
"Told by the communists that she couldn’t pursue her love of languages, she excelled as a physicist. Asked to spy for the secret police, she refused."
Re: Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'
#6Nixon reborn.
Re: Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'
#7I didn't see mention of evidence.
Re: Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'
#8It so desperately disappointing when a man who was elected largely for his understanding and respect for the constitution turns out to have been systematically dumping over it for the last few years. Like so many people, I expected better of Obama. He's not the man I thought he was.
Politicians are only true to their "roots" when they're in opposition. Once in power that all quickly goes out the window for "expedience" to "solve" the problems we currently face, and to not let the opposition get in a word edgewise.
Pay attention and you'll see that people from both parties do it consistently. Once you recognize that the only reasonable conclusion to come to is that you can't vote republican or democrat since either will betray you once they've gotten your vote and are in office.
Re: Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'
#9It so desperately disappointing when a man who was elected largely for his understanding and respect for the constitution turns out to have been systematically dumping over it for the last few years. Like so many people, I expected better of Obama. He's not the man I thought he was.
Almost all politicians are carbon copies of one another. Until we vote out every single incumbent, and refuse to replace them with like-minded cronies, we can expect more of the same.
Re: Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'
#10The only good thing about the mess that is Obama's presidency is that people might finally learn that it generally doesn't matter who you elect, most presidents and politicians will act similarly. Politicians tell the country what they think >50% of them want to hear, then do whatever they want in office. While the things Obama and his administration (and Bush's!) have been doing are awful, I've enjoyed watching the public outcry. Hopefully it lasts.