{"id":49236,"date":"2013-05-15T11:09:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T17:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=49236"},"modified":"2013-05-15T11:10:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T17:10:03","slug":"senator-barack-obama-condemns-ap-gate-in-advance-of-ap-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=49236","title":{"rendered":"Senator Barack Obama condemns AP-gate 7 years in advance of AP-gate"},"content":{"rendered":"

On his show last evening, Mark Levin read from the transcript of an interview then-Senator Barack Obama gave to Alan Colmes on June 28 2006, in which Senator Obama — in discussing the Bush Administration’s criticism of the New York Times for publishing leaked classified information — concluded that the press shouldn’t be molested or pressured by government and should be left alone to do its job.\u00a0 <\/em>That is, the post-partisan Senator publicly condemned the Bush Administration for trying to influence the way media reported, noting that the secrecy of the Bush administration in some ways justified the release of information meant to harm it.<\/p>\n

I can’t find the link or audio at this point, but the takeaway from this interview is that the Obama of the Senate — the 2006 Obama critical of the Bush Administration’s worry over the leak of classified information (as well as their use of Gitmo, rendition, waterboarding, etc., all while defending Murtha and Howard Dean) — is at remarkable odds with the Obama of the presidency, whom Senator<\/em> Obama must also necessarily condemn for allowing President<\/em> Obama’s AG to tap the phones of AP reporters in a broad and sweeping surveillance of the news gathering organization.<\/p>\n

And the reason our President is seemingly at odds with himself is simple:\u00a0 because the Obama of 2006, and 2008, and 2012, is — despite early attempts to paint him as a post-partisan, post-racial pragmatist, a new breed of faculty lounge president with a fine pant crease and a working knowledge of contemporary postmodernist and postcolonialist jargon, a good man<\/em> who wants to do what is best for the country as it was founded<\/em> and is hip and fresh and historic<\/em> — is exactly the same Obama as we have today<\/em>, the only difference being that the mask is slipping, the weight of the lies is becoming too much for the rhetorical foundation to hold, and he’s being exposed for the wannabe-despot he’s always been.<\/p>\n

Which seems relevant somehow.<\/p>\n

If any of you can track down the audio or the transcript, post it in the comments here, please.\u00a0 I still have no access to email, so I apologize if you’ve written me and I haven’t written back.<\/p>\n

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On his show last evening, Mark Levin read from the transcript of an interview then-Senator Barack Obama gave to Alan Colmes on June 28 2006, in which Senator Obama — in discussing the Bush Administration’s criticism of the New York Times for publishing leaked classified information — concluded that the press shouldn’t be molested or pressured by government and should be left alone to do its job.\u00a0 That is, the<\/p>\n

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