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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (106957)1/5/2012 7:50:59 PM
From: tejek   of 149317
 
You are wrong, tejek. Just how wrong won't become apparent until we get a President who will use these new powers against innocent Americans. When that start happening, the abuses will come fast and furious until everyone will be able to say, they know someone who has been impacted. When that day comes, we will be a Dictatorship. Obama has set us on that inevitable path now.

First of all, I don't think Obama is done with this issue. Secondly, a president doesn't need this bill to go rogue. There is enough power concentrated in the presidency s/he can pull it off without this bill so long as s/he has the backing of the military. Thirdly, and most importantly, we have far less control over large corps than we do the presidency.
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