Waldorf and Sauron wrote:Just goes to show... the same people that thought it was fine for the Bush administration to wiretap without warrants failed to realize that their political opponents would also gain that power. Just last year, Obama (while still a senator) voted for a bill extending the warrantless wiretapping program. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/washi ... ml?_r=1&hp
I think it's sort of funny (and sort of not...) that many of the people who cried foul at various policies of the Bush administration are silent when Obama supports the same things. I wait to hear some of the outspoken critics of Bush say the same things about Obama, but curiously many of them are silent. Is this the blatant hypocrisy it seems, or is there another, more plausible reason?
(Note: I'm not talking about Waldorf and Sauron here; they were the ones to point out that Obama was supporting this particular policy of the Bush administration.)
Laser Jock,
The people at Boingboing.net write a lot about privacy rights, and were extremely anti-bush, but they have been really critical of Obama on this issue (even as they tooted his horn during the election). See, for example, http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/15/ne ... r-ill.html But, yeah, it is ironic that people often fail to realize that by granting a power to the government while your side is in power, the other side gets it when they're in power. I guess that's sort of the lesson about giving power to kings in the Book of Mormon.
I wait to hear some of the outspoken critics of Bush say the same things about Obama, but curiously many of them are silent. Is this the blatant hypocrisy it seems, or is there another, more plausible reason?