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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
Do you know how many tirades I watched of Olbermann screaming at the camera for Mr. Bush to be impeached for this program? In the attached vid, Olbermann could be reporting that Obama picked out a name for his dog - he has that much emotion/indignation. That's about the level of indignation I'm getting from my liberal friends and the amount I'm detecting in posts here.
I certainly can't look back and know the way each one of the posters here reacted to the Bush administration's actions, but I would be dollars to doughnuts that it was a bit more vitriolic than what we are witnessing here.
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Read roachboy's first post.
To demand/expect the same level of "vitriol" to two somewhat distinct approaches is to miss the boat entirely.
The reaction to Bush was worse because the policies were worse.
What you are saying is effectively meaningless. You seem to recognize that the left and most liberals here are against the wiretapping program, and yet somehow in your mind they are hypocrites for not opposing it with as much gusto as they did to Bush.
Isn't their opposition enough? And maybe that vitriol was aimed not only at wiretaps, but at torture, secret memos, extraordinary rendition, gitmo, "enemy combatant" and so on?
I disagree with the wiretaps, and think they are a disgrace. But Im not shortsighted enough to equate Obama keeping SOME of the elements of the GWOT to Bush implementing them in a much broader manner.
If Obama backtracks and brings back what he has said he will dismantle, then Ill bet he will face the same level of vitriol.