You may not be looking close enough.
But in any case what you do see that is quite unusual is an agreement between the far left and many if not most Freepers on the NSA spying issue.
Granted that many Lefties are blindly supporting NSA since doing so supports Obama. But, IMHO, their heart is not really in it.
So I'm standing by my Strange Bedfellows comment. It is happening. It is uncommon. It may be unique.
Well, when you get agreement on an issue between people on the right and people on the left, that is indeed pretty remarkable.
I think what it indicates in this case is just what a sweeping, outrageous, flagrant, glaring, insufferable governmental abuse of power this program of spying on pretty much everyone in America is.
The Guardian is ultra-ultra-left: Obsessive and hysterical loathing of America and anything to do with America. Politics, culture, people. They probably hate American trees and shrubs.
No surprise they would do anything that makes the US look like a villain AND might weaken American power or influence.
The fact that it might make Obama look bad would be a minor consideration in comparison. Obama is a fellow Marxist, but also a hated American.