| Kasz216 said: I like Rachael Maddow. Her and Pat Buchanon were the best team of analsyts out there... the only ones admitting when their guys succeeded and failed.
The honeymoon has really worn off the only problem is there is no alternative for anyone really since no one is gutsy enough to vote 3rd party.
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Its actually usually a good sign when you are pissing off both ends of the spectrum. That means you are somewhere in the middle, where the average American is.
And a lot of you are missing a fundamental distinction between Bush, Nixon and Obama. Bush and Nixon went behind the backs of the other branches of government. Obama is not. People just like to throw around the word 'unconstitutional' like it is going out of style. This word is used in all kinds of instances where it doesn't even apply (including by many people in this thread).
Let's just make this clear. The Constitution allows for the suspension of habeas corpus rights under limited circumstances. You just have to do it in the right way at the right time. And as for your earlier post, kasz, yes, Congress is the one who does have to authorize the suspension of these rights, but this stuff doesn't just happen overnight. And this was certainly not the only thing Obama had to address when he got into office.
Furthermore, it will be a cold day in hell before liberals abandon Obama. Who are they going to vote for, Ralph Nader? Obama is about the most liberal President in office for the past 50 years.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
