Let's finish this line of discussion today with the second half of insgitful and pitiful quotes from our current politicians:
16) Jay Leno: “Hey, Snoop is back in the news. Not Snoop Dog, Snoop Obama. We wanted to have a President who listened to all Americans…and now we have one.” So, not only are some on the left of the political spectrum turning on this administration, some Hollywood types are also taking their best shots now on every thing from the President’s drone strategy to the shredding of the Fourth Amendment.
17) Magdi Ahmad Hussein, chairman of the Islamic Labor Party, was speaking at what he thought was a private political meeting in Egypt. However, it turns out there was a live microphone in the room that was broadcasting the meeting’s discussion live over the airwaves: “I’m very fond of battles. With the enemies, of course – with America and Israel, but this battle must be waged with maximum judiciousness and calm. Even though this is a secret meeting, we must all take an oath not to leak anything to the media.”
These are the same guys that the Obama administration has already given well over $1 billion worth of jet fighters, tanks, and other aid to, people who consider us their enemies. And down the rabbit hole we go.
18) The governor of Maine, Paul LePage describing one of his political opponents in the state legislature: "He is bad. He has no brains, and he has a black heart." I am sure that these two will shortly put away their differences to reach a common ground for the betterment of the citizens of Maine. Not.
19) President Obama in 2007: “This administration [the Bush administration] also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide. I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom. That means no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No more National Security Letters to spy on citizens who aren’t suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are. That is not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists.” Hey, we originally believed him when he put forth this defense of the Fourth Amendment.
He followed up this rousing defense of privacy and our rights with the following reassertion a few years later: “As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers faced with perils that we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience’s sake.”
But, by June, 2013 he had somehow lost this strong defense of our rights and privacy: “It is important to recognize that you can't have 100% security and also then have 100% privacy and zero inconvenience. We are going to have to make some choices as a society. What I can say is that, when evaluating the programs, they make a difference in our capacity to anticipate and prevent terrorist activity." Oops, ignore what I said when I needed your votes. Screw the whole privacy and Fourth Amendment, we need to trample your rights in order to protect your rights
20) Consider the following recent discussion between Congressman Hank Johnson and NSA Director Keith Alexander in light of what we now know, i.e. the Federal government is probably confiscating every single electronics communications of every American every day without a court warrant:
Rep. Johnson: Does the NSA intercept Americans’ cell phone conversations?
Director Alexander: No.
Rep. Johnson: Google searches?
Director Alexander: No.
Rep. Johnson: Text messages?
Director Alexander: No.
Rep. Johnson: Amazon.com orders?
Director Alexander: No.
Rep. Johnson: Bank records?
Director Alexander: No.
Rep. Johnson: What judicial consent is required for NSA to intercept communications and information involving American citizens?
Director Alexander: Within the United States, that would be the FBI lead. If it were a foreign actor in the United States, the FBI would still have to lead. It could work that with NSA or other intelligence agencies as authorized. But to conduct that kind of collection in the United States it would have to go through a court order, and the court would have to authorize it. We’re not authorized to do it, nor do we do it.
As a Director of the NSA, he is either a boldface liar or an incredible out-of-touch leader of the NSA. And President Obama thinks American citizens have a trust issue? How could we not have a trust issue based on such lies as this exchange in front of Congress no less.
21) The Director of National Intelligence James Clapper may have lied to Congress when he told the Senate Congressional committee back in March that the NSA does not gather data on millions of Americans. Consider for yourselve the quotes from this exchange back in March, in front of Congress and under oath, between Senator Ron Wyden and James Clapper:
Wyden: "And this is for you, Director Clapper, again on the surveillance front. And I hope we can do this in just a yes or no answer, because I know Senator Feinstein wants to move on. Last summer the NSA director was at a conference and he was asked a question about the NSA surveillance of Americans. He replied, and I quote here, '... the story that we have millions or hundreds of millions of dossiers on people is completely false.' The reason I'm asking the question is, having served on the committee now for a dozen years, I don't really know what a dossier is in this context. So what I wanted to see is if you could give me a yes or no answer to the question: Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"
Clapper: "No, sir."
Wyden: "It does not."
Clapper: "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly."
Wyden: "All right. Thank you. I'll have additional questions to give you in writing on that point, but I thank you for the answer."
How many different ways and different times can different people lie in this administration?
22) Senator Mary Landrieu, scolding a fellow Senator on his idea to build a fence along the Mexican border to prevent illegal immigration: “We need to build a smart fence. And a fence is not just a physical structure which could be built out of a variety of different materials with or without barbed wire on the top. A smart fence which is what Sen. McCain and I want to build — since he’s from Arizona, I think he knows more about this than the senator from South Dakota who doesn’t have a border with Mexico, but only Canada and that is quite different."
I know that in my reality, South Dakota does not have a border with Canada. It has a border with North Dakota which has a border with Canada but since South Dakota is SOUTH of NORTH Dakota, the Senator, who somehow got elected to Congress with a minimal amount of knowledge of basic U.S. geography, must live in a different reality than most of us, at least relative to geography.
We certainly live in interesting times:
- Politicians that continually lie to us and then say we have a trust issue.
- Politicians that can change their views and positions on issues, depending on the political situation, without even blinking.
- Left leaning political figures that think the current left leaning President is a terrorist.
- Countries in the world whose leaders hate us but we still give them billions of taxpayer dollars to continue to hate us.
- Politicians that have no grasp of simple geography.
- Politicians that have no concept of reality, whether it is spending millions and millions of dollars on inane Federal programs like sheep improvement centers or who think that corrupt and scandal ridden organizations (e.g. Fannie and Freddie) are actually doing an outstanding job, etc.
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