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Establishment view of Obama's civil liberties record

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  • Monday, June 29, 2009 06:03 AM

    Mordant Chuckling

    By the way, Robert Reich should begin a new career as stand-up comic, or at least the person who wrote the headline: "The Public Has to Force Obama to Do the Right Thing" should. Silly me, taking the time to cast my vote for one of the six Democrats who had promised to clean out the stables and restore the constitution, and so naively assuming that this is what I needed to do to accomplish it. And sure enough, this is catching on. Today I called 9-11, but the nice officer said "If you want me to come investigate the break-in at your house, you're going to have to force me to do it."

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