Reply #18: Full disclosure... [View All]

[lyonspotter]

I voted against all republican presidential candidates as soon as I was old enough, as while I was a child in the 80s I developed an intrinsic hatred for the policies of Reagan/Bush...I voted for Clinton in 96, Gore in 2000, Kerry in 2004, etc... but this isn't about me specifically, nor is it about voting...(and what is of note: Olbermann doesn't vote, so are you going to discount what he says based on the fact he doesn't vote?)...

It is about people on the Right who are finally (and I mean FINALLY) becoming aware that what Bush has done has been continued into a new administration... Where is the repeal of the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the removal of our troops from an illegal war in Iraq, etc., etc., etc?! We wanted CHANGE! It has not been delivered. Don't say, 'give Obama more time.' It didn't take much time at all for him to go against the promises he spoke of, such as repealing the "Patriot" Act which is an assault on liberty. He was in support of its re-authorization and Bush's tyrannical revised FISA.

My hope, I repeat, my hope...is that we can see passed the left-right paradigm long enough in order to remember that what the Founding Fathers envisioned in terms of human liberty has been greatly assaulted and transgressed. It is a shame that the Democratic Party has not repudiated Bush's attack on our Democracy, but has cowed to the tyranny that Bush imposed... Let us remember as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson both similarly expressed, "A republic that is willing to sacrifice liberty for safety deserves neither and will lose both." This is what I see in the teabagger movement, that sentiment. And if only the teabaggers and progressives could unite in the common goal of restoring our rights, we would be ever so much the more powerful to have a government that finally exists to serve us and not the other way around!