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Liberals let Obama get away with unconstitutional actions
The president's deplorable record on privacy and kill lists is an affront to our values. Liberals just shrug it off
By David K. Shipler (Credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) Let us stipulate, as lawyers like to say, that President Obama has a deplorable recordon civil liberties, one that threatens long-term damage to the country’s constitutional culture. Why, then, has his base of support not been eroded decisively? Why have so many on the left fallen silent, after railing against George W. Bush’s rights violations, as Obama has prolonged and codified most of the same practices? And why have so few on the right, riding a groundswell of resentment toward big government, failed to resent the biggest governmental intrusions into personal privacy since the FBI’s domestic spying during the Cold War?
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