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Posted on 10/27/2013 4:23:03 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Not for the first time since he took office, President Obama is being accused of looking a lot like his predecessor when it comes to terrorism.
This week, the anger came from media reports detailing the scope of National Security Agency (NSA) espionage in Europe, including bugging the cellphone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a sweep of French metadata from phone calls, e-mails, and other electronic communications similar to what it has done in the US.
For a man who first took office promising change in how America treated the world, it looked like more of the same.
Already, leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden had described the enormity and apparent boldness of NSA data collection programs in the US that, critics say, run roughshod over civil liberties. Abroad, Mr. Obama's drone campaign has been seen in some quarters as little more than an international assassination program. Add to that Obama's inability to persuade Congress to shut the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, and some say the current US president has been little more than "Bush lite."
Yet when Chancellor Merkel called Obama Wednesday to demand an explanation, Obama reportedly apologized, according to Der Spiegel, a German news magazine. Obama told Merkel he would have stopped the program had he known about it, the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper said in its Sunday edition. ..
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But regardless, that apology is significant, as any Republican in Congress will tell you.
"I think the president should stop apologizing and stop being defensive," said Rep. Peter King (R) of New York on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday.
What is the significance of an apology? As Representative King knows, it signals something about how Obama wants America to be seen.
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This is just clinical. The MSM can’t even write a story about how retarded President Messiah is without obsessing about GWB.
Yep, that’s pretty much the plan - get the U.S. off the world stage as a leader, whether the easy way or hard way and by any means necessary. That is the mission Obama is executing for his foreign handlers.
Peter King is a douchebag.
They start with the premise that the worst possible thing a president could be is GWB. Their excuses are built right into their accusation.
O.
M.
G.
I wonder what a post-blame GWB world would look like? Probably worse than we are witnessing now.
Makes ya wonder, if there was no Bush, who would they blame then?
Oh wait.. _palm to forehead) TEA Party.
yes, yes. I got it. "he may suck, but at least he isn't GWB".
Not for the first time since he took office, President Obama is being accused of looking a lot like his predecessor when it comes to terrorism... For a man who first took office promising change in how America treated the world, it looked like more of the same.Not in the least -- Partisan Media Shills ping.
Partisan Media Shill -- Mark Sappenfield search:
This must be the kick-off to another international apology tour to get him out of the country for a while.
Spain would like to have him stop by..
Spain: US must explain ‘monitoring’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24708410
Spain demands the US gives details of any surveillance amid “unacceptable” reports that it monitored 60 million Spanish telephone calls in one month.
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