“Your comment is infantile and shows the inroads the left made in besmirching President G W Bush.”
The patriot act made all the inroads needed to besmirch G W Bush.
It’s extremely classy given his unique position that he has decided not to criticize the sitting president. But his statement can very easily be taken as meaning that criticizing the president and therefore the government is, in general, inappropriate. He gives Obama too easy an out. It’s as if he accepts the blame for all of Obama’s failures. Sometimes concerns for your country should outweigh civility. I’m tired of Republican who refuse to stand up and fight, I’m tired of Republicans who put civility above doing what is right. He was the best president of the modern erra, other than Reagan, but he wasn’t exactly liberty minded. As pathetic as it is for Obama to blame everything on G W Bush, their are certain things like the patriot act that need to be blamed on him. He set the stage for most of what Obama is doing now, and I will call him a statist and continue to call him a statist. Someone has to stand up for me, someone has to stand up for my freedom. The Republican party needs to do better than be a mouthpiece for a different set of elitists who aren’t being served by the Democrats.
I find dignity and respect to be refreshing. I wish it were commonplace...
I don’t think you will mind a link to an article critical of the Patriot Act in the Daily Kos:
From the above:
The USA PATRIOT Act passed the Senate by a vote of 98 to 1. Russ Feingold (D-WI), a strong civil libertarian who was unfortunately defeated in the 2010 election, was the sole opponent.
The bill passed the House by a vote of 357 to 66. Of the 66 constitutional defenders, 62 were Democrats, 3 were Republicans, and 1 was an Independent. Five of them—Tammy Baldwin, Sherrod Brown, Bernie Sanders, Mark Udall, and Tom Udall—now serve in the Senate.
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so I guess you can thank Russ Feingold and Bernie Sanders for voting against it and the I guess the other 99 Senators and 357 Representatives who voted for it were also “statists” with G W Bush