Reply #76: I'm just saying that people on this board... [View All]

[Hippo_Tron]

Watch Democrats cave on FISA and act like it's completely unprecedented and that George W Bush is the first President to take liberties with the constitution and that if we don't stop the FISA bill, we're going to wake up tomorrow and we will be a fascist dictatorship.

I'm saying that we have had Presidents take liberties with the constitution before, Congresses have caved just like this one is, and yet somehow we aren't a dictatorship. So I don't agree with the notion that this is somehow a super special issue where the sky will come crashing down. I want as little compromise for political expedience on all important issues, but I also realize that it will happen and that we will still survive if it does.

I apologize for being condescending. I just think that some of the harsher Obama critics are lacking any sort of perspective whatsoever on this.