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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: steve harris who wrote (720335)6/10/2013 5:32:10 AM
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My focus in that article was on what was said and what is being said now...

Politicians today say anything they want...not what is the truth.

Let's start with Obama – just as with his flip-flops on the debt ceiling debate and the use of the military force without Congressional approval, we're reminded again that it's far easier to campaign for president than to confront the leadership responsibilities that come with actually being president. As senator, Obama routinely attacked Bush on this very issue and voted against extending the wiretap provisions in the Patriot Act. In a February 2006 speech on the Senate floor for example, he specifically decried what he called "false choices," saying in part:

"Now, at times this issue has tended to degenerate into an "either-or" type of debate. Either we protect our people from terror or we protect our most cherished principles. But that is a false choice. It asks too little of us and assumes too little about America."

He repeated that view in his 2009 Inaugural Address stating, "[W]e reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals."

[Check out our editorial cartoons on President Obama.]

Yet, at an event in California this morning, there was Obama embracing the exact opposite position, stating that in fact you have to find the "right balance" between security and privacy:

"I think it's important to understand that you can't have 100 percent security and then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. We're going to have to make some choices as a society."
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