Elaborate on the Bush comment.

I am not sure the Department of Homeland Security really gives the government more power. I think it was mostly a reorganization of already existing agencies.

I probably was not clear in what I said. I think that Obama thought the terrorist threat was just bogus until he got in the oval office and started to get briefings.

No, Obama just did not take the threats seriously until he became president.

Terrye on March 26, 2009 at 1:18 PM

As I see this, it is the preponderance of evidence that Dabama is constantly abusing his powers as POTUS that is of great concern.

Today we have the democrats creating representstives out of thin air [Washington D.C.], democrats spending money that has yet to be created, or borrowed, and most of it will never be accounted for, and now we have Dabama getting prepared to start spying on Americans with no oversite whatsoever. What happened to the Constitution? Democrats could care less!

Those trying to blame this on Bush are comparing apples and oranges. Under Bush there was oversite. With Dabama it will become another power for the democrat dictator. Shades of Chaves!

Viva Dabama!

Ron Reagan Jr. is not exactly a conservative either.

I don’t blame Bush for any of this and I still think Ron Paul is a crazy person.

and I am not going to read some crazy s*it about Bush, I have had enough of that from the likes of Oliver Stone for a lifetime.

Sometimes I wonder what some people think this country used to be like. I mean they talk about Bush and these powers as if all this was some unprecedented power grab and harken back to a day when the state was our friend and never overstepped its bounds.

Please, the Miranda rights were not even read to people upon arrest until relatively recent history. FDR had every long distance phone call into and out of the country monitored during WW2 without even a hint of a warrant. Woodrow Wilson got downright draconian during WW1. It was Clinton that started the Echelon program that lead to some people talking about Big Brother on the internet. It was not until the Civil Rights Act was passed that black people could vote in some places in this country. Do you think having the government on your back is any easier to bear when that government is state rather than federal?

No, Obama just did not take the threats seriously until he became president.

Gasp! That’s RACIST!!!!

ErinF on March 26, 2009 at 9:28 AM

Would it be racist to suggest that, as a Kenyan from a connected family, his closest tie to American slavery is on the sales end?

And as Gov Palin pointed out recently, that’s the hand the GOP have been dealt, and they best learn to handle it and work around it.

If youre waiting for critical mention of this in any of the major daily/weekly media outlets in this country, get ready for a long sit. If anything I suspect substantial nodding heads-approval from the MSM/Maher/Olby crowd. They KNOW that Obama is the smartest dude ever to occupy the WH, and if he needs extra powers in secret to undo all the OilWarCrimes of the Bush Regime, then thats cool with them.

They are operational not literal.

All Dems knew this.

Only delusional dolts like P. Noonan, C. Buckley, ad nauseam, believed otherwise.

Members of the Lapsus alumni*.

(*Error made.)

How much outrage will we hear from the Left over this?

Olberdork was gonna say something, but then he noticed a Republican was still alive.

This was the danger created by the the Bush supporters, myself included so I do not escape my own scrutiny. I regret giving Bush a pass on so much of his centralized powergrab, he used it to create some really disturbing Soviet style intelligence networks. Bush created this and now Obama will finish it.

I apologize to all the Ron Paul “kooks” who warned us about this. I apologize to all the AJ “kooks” who warned us about this.

True_King on March 26, 2009 at 8:52 AM

Same here True_King, I voted for Bush as well. And I laughed at Ron Paul’s supporters too. Ron Paul is not all that crazy as I had thought. But then I have to realize that Carter, Clinton didn’t help us also. Not to mention the Democrats that were in Congress. Now Congress is really getting out of hand. Not only is TOTUS showing his true colors, his cabinet and Congress and the House are doing the same. For years thanks to Carter and the fact that he got by with what he did, then Clinton. I believe we most Citizens are finally realizing we had enough. Can’t blame the voters for wanting our Country to be better. I knew TOTUS wasn’t that man. But McCain would have been more than likely the same. More I think about McCain and his bimbo daughter I realize that I don’t think we would have been better off. I sure admire your posts.

This was the danger created by the the Bush supporters, myself included so I do not escape my own scrutiny. I regret giving Bush a pass on so much of his centralized powergrab, he used it to create some really disturbing Soviet style intelligence networks. Bush created this and now Obama will finish it.

I apologize to all the Ron Paul “kooks” who warned us about this. I apologize to all the AJ “kooks” who warned us about this.

True_King on March 26, 2009 at 8:52 AM

I think you mistake “power grab” with the restoration of executive powers that had been slowly stripped away by democRAT congresses over the past 40 years. Witness the FISA Act, arguably unconstitutional, which stripped traditional executive powers from the President and handed it to the FISA court. Jimmy Carter, the traitor, willingly signed the legislation, abrogating his authority. His record since then has been exposed as that of the worst president in the history of our nation. He is also responsible for this financial crisis and the rise of Iran to be a global threat and terrorist nation.

And on the Right? Those who accepted unquestioningly the state-secrets doctrine of Bush may now want to make hay out of Obama’s expansion of them

Better for the right to support Obama for secrecy. Give him a lot of praise. Then the left will have knee jerk reaction and get all over Obama. Reverse psychology or something.