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Originally Posted by willravel
Obama's baggage is that his name is on the USA PATRIOT
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If I recall, Obama initially voted against the reauthorization of the Patriot Act in 2006 and only voted for the final version after he fought to include several provisions (restrictions on FBI use of national security letters and roving wiretaps) that were in a bill he cosponsored a year earlier, the Security and Freedom and Enhancement (SAFE) Act of 2005.
The Patriot Act is far from perfect, but it was going to pass by a large margin. I would suggest that Obama's provisions at least made it marginally better.