This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand. 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 wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not 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. And it is not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists. The FISA court works. The separation of powers works. Our Constitution works. We will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers, and that justice is not arbitrary.
From the 2007 edition of Obama
Of course, 2013 Obama, on Leno, maintains ‘We Don’t Have a Domestic Spying Program’. I guess we should just chalk up the chatter over NSA with the other ‘phony scandals’.
2007 Obama said:
The lesson of the Bush years is that not talking does not work. Go down the list of countries we’ve ignored and see how successful that strategy has been. We haven’t talked to Iran, and they continue to build their nuclear program. We haven’t talked to Syria, and they continue support for terror. We tried not talking to North Korea, and they now have enough material for 6 to 8 more nuclear weapons.
It’s time to turn the page on the diplomacy of tough talk and no action. It’s time to turn the page on Washington’s conventional wisdom that agreement must be reached before you meet, that talking to other countries is some kind of reward, and that Presidents can only meet with people who will tell them what they want to hear.
2013 Obama on Leno is whining about Putin and has canceled a summit with him.
From 2008, Sarah Palin was excoriated by the pro-Obama media for calling for an end to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but now 2013 Obama talks like he’s been on the same page all along
That begins with winding down the companies known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. For too long, these companies were allowed to make big profits buying mortgages, knowing that if their bets went bad, taxpayers would be left holding the bag. It was “heads we win, tails you lose.” And it was wrong.
The good news is that there’s a bipartisan group of Senators working to end Fannie and Freddie as we know them. I support these kinds of efforts, and today I want to lay out four core principles for what I believe this reform should look like.
Barry Obama, the good man today that he has always been.
Andthe fawning media keeps on fawning. Surely they would need their stomachs pumped by now, after all the Obama jizz they have sucked down?
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
MINITRUE, direct RECDEP/PROPDEP retro-write. Delays double-plus ungood.
You’ve emphasised the wrong part of the quote, Darleen.
Fanny and Freddie aren’t going away, they’re going to be replaced by a government program. Exactly like what happened with college loans.
If there’s no domestic surveillance, what exactly did Snowdon reveal, and why is he in such trouble?
Ask the guy who made the video blamed for Benghazi. If you can clear the security at the Federal prison wherein he still languishes, that is…
What’s the point in attempting to hold Obama to his word? NRO’s Jim Geraghty said it best: All Obama promises come with an expiration date. All of them.
So he blatantly lies to Leno. Not news.
Barry Obama, the
good manPOS today that he has always been.In the interest of accuracy.
I guess the lesson is not what you don’t say, but who is doing the ignoring. Because of the too much talking.
Also, shut up.
Not talking doesn’t work? Ineffective talking is just as bad. Seriously, Obama thinks he can just tell Putin to “move on” and he will?
And then there’s this – which, if these were sane times, would have been created by our American media instead of a journalist from from one of our “closest allies.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erYpXzE9Pxs
– They wouldn’t touch Fannie and Freddie because Franks was a fag, and faggotry is one of the Obama campaigns sacred voting cows.
(see – Obama cancels Putin meeting over gay rights issue et al)
– Guess Snowden was only important up until the LGBT community started making noise.
That begins with winding down the companies known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. For too long, these companies were allowed to make big profits buying mortgages, knowing that if their bets went bad, taxpayers would be left holding the bag. It was “heads we win, tails you lose.” And it was wrong.
Hey maybe he could talk to some of those winners and see about clawing back some of those bonuses. It’s not like they’re very far away, seeing as he employed a bunch of them…..
Un-fracking-believable. A list of former Fannie Mae execs reads like a who’s who of democrat operatives.
If the Republican party were really smart instead of Fredo smaht, that would be the subject of the day on every Sunday talk show this weekend.