Why don't liberals get upset about Clinton authorizing illegal wiretaps & searches during his time in office?
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Only partially right.\n\nYou're missing an important part. Hmmm. Seems to be missing from the site you posted as well.\n\nFirst, if trying to construct an argument, you may want to pull facts from something other than a conservative spin house. By the way, the same goes for liberals. I'm tired of seeing people posting links to places of strong bias.\n\nAnyway, let's get back to this. The part your missing is when Clinton got the smack layed down on him.\n\nYou see, he had the authority in 1993 but he didn't use it  (or get caught rather) until a few years later. When he did, the courts basically said "Are you insane?". After that, Clinton had to go get FISA warrants.\n\nYou may be to young to remember, but there was indeed an uproar over this. At least, amongst the people I knew then (many of them liberals).\n\nMy view on the whole thing is to get rid of it. It's to dangerous in the hands of the executive, especially when said executive has granted himself to power to declare whether or not someone is an enemy.\n\nI don't want to see ANYONE with that power. Period. It goes against everything this country stands for.\n\n~X~
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it's called treason. when, in a time of war, the press subverts the government to release battle strategies, it could be called treason! j. edgar hoover would have had them shut down and investigated! the only reason that hasn't happened today is because of leftist liberal scum. these same whiny people who complain about everything in this country, and have no realistic ways to deal with any of it. heads full of utopian idealistic crap, and mouths full of piss and vinegar. thank the liberals that more of our men will die because of the ny times being so enthusiastically  anti-government.\n\nas far as rights to privacy.... we are in a time of war! do any of you remember 9/11 at all?!?!?!?!?   who cares if the fed listens to my conversations? I have nothing to hide!!! if you do, you deserve to get caught! to hell with the rights of the clearly guilty!\n\n"This subversive act to follow the money is another example of the Bush administration"  LOL! and the times isn't following the money with sensational headlines and security information leaks to sell more papers LOL no, not at all\n\nwhat ever happened to patriotism?
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Bush is not spying on people he's spying on suspected terrorists.  Truely no one in their right mind would want our security forces to ignore a call from Osama directly into the USA?  \n\nDemocrats need to suspend their hate of all things republican and pretent for the moment that the president is Clinton.  If you would be ok with clinton securing your borders by investigating terrorists then pls drop the sky is falling attitude.
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Did the Liberals think that when Clinton would bomb places after a new Monica headline came out, that we would forget his crapola?\n\nThe garbage we don't buy is this liberal hate propaganda we hear non-freaking-stop
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Because the truth always annoys and Conservatives react with anger when they are told the truth of their mistakes!\n\nIt's a shame that you have such anger problems and would actually take it out on your Family, Pets or anyone or anything else near you.\n\nYou see Liberals...this is why we must all get out and vote on November 7th and rid ourselves of these Family and Pet abusing Conservatives.
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Because the prosecution against her was wrong.  She was charged with lying about something no reasonable person would remember.  Liberals used the same thing against Scooter Libby and other Republicans.
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Yes, he is for something only if it benefits him which shows how spineless and shallow he is. Only an opportunist. I do feel though that bush has not been criticized enough for his wiretaps, etc.\nI also feel replacing the word censured with criticized would have\nexpressed what you meant by the question. I have to give Credit to Bill for serving 8 years. Though his lies were blatant and terrible, I CENSURE the American public for reelecting him for the second term. Al Gore's reputation was destroyed simply by the president he served and not acts he committed himself.
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They will find SOME excuse for bad Democratic behavior.  I could not even stomach the liberals during the Clinton years.  NO ONE said boo to ANY of his actions.  Perverts stick together, and I guess they are no better...
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Don, they not only bashed him for 8 years but they investigated his every move for the 20 years before. He was accused of everything that happened in America for those 20 years. If you remember what started out as an investigation into a business deal gone bad ended up with Monica. I to this day think she was a plant because they could find nothing else to get him on. He was even accused in Vincent Foster's suicide. Ron Browns Plane wreck and numerous other "crimes". We did not know what crime was until Bush took office and I for one will be on his case and those that voted for him and especially the mentally deficient that just do not get it, until at least 2 weeks after he leaves office. That is my duty as a patriot.
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please it is president Clinton, and though people are going to say it is just politics it is the same issue. if it is wrong now it was wrong then.  if anything there has always been a double standard between Democrats and Republicans.  people are screaming about an illegal war can not remember president Clinton asking congress for any wars he got us in. but you have president Bush who did go to congress.
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because they cannot get their head around the fact that the presidency was not stolen from them.  they believe it is their god given right to rule and something went wrong because they are not in power.  the lib party is a party of hate.  no matter the cost, anything...anything, if they can make bush look bad or impeach him, that is what drives them.  that is what makes them wake up every morning.  how do we do in bush.
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Look at the responses to your question. Liberals hate bush to the point of stupidity. He can do no good no matter what. Clinton sends troops to Bosnia and they accept that without ANY protest (they are still there even though Clinton promised they would return in one year), our troops are dragged through the streets of Somalia (that's ok because a liberal sent them there). As much as liberals like to think of themselves as open minded and non-judgmental they are neither. If you know a liberal this is a great joke to play. Read the paper in the morning and look for a quote from any liberal (i.e. Hillary, Teddy, Nancy P. etc.) attribute it to Bush and the liberal will spew hatred at the comment and say, "what an idiot", when you correct the source they will get upset and leave. If you do the same to a conservative they will usually say something like, "well that is stupid" and still disagree. Conservatives are better on the ideological which hurts us politically but it's better than being a liberal.
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No bud, you're not the only one at all. And shy of these few liberal anti-social hippies on the net who spew their hatred for the president and other authority figures, because they don't want any accountability, like the whiney crybabies that they are, most normal, sane and rational americans feel the same way. Most liberal women aren't that attractive. Just look at hillary, rosie o'donnell, joy behar for example. All lesbians by the way. \n\nThat's right liberals. you're beloved anti-christ hillary has been seen with other lesbian women at night clubs in jew york shi**y, cavorting and making out with other dikes behind closed doors, while not so slick willie was philandering as usual. Says something about a party and its followers when committing adultery against your spouse in the sacred oval office no less has no shock and outrage from the liberals at large. \n\nYou liberals that preach compassion and claim to have so much, are the same people that have been and would be ready on a moments notice to crucify a conservative if they breath in your direction the wrong way. They're angry cause they're losers and they know it, and they like most liberals have upper contempt for truth, accountability and pro-american behavior, because they seek to block all three. But just like the purity of the blazing sun, you can't run or hide from it forever.
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The media does have information to most things, for example I read books 4 years ago about reprecussions of certain policies that look as if they are prognosticators, some of this stuff is not a seceret. I agree that people's information is limited more than we think through the media. Conservatives complain about the liberal media and liberals about the conservative media. What Bush is doing is no comparison to the crimes that Sadam commited? Well, I don't fully agree with that and I could  engage in a discussion about that if anyone wants to email me @ bennymokey2001 on yahoo, but with that argument someone could say well Hitler was horrible nothing else matters crime wise, oh Bin Laden did this everybody else gets off free. "Americans are so stupid in general thinking that their civil liberties are being violated by allowing the patriot to continue?" How is the government looking at what you check out from a library not neoMcCarthyism? I serisously doubt that any library has any materials that preclude that you are a threat to the state. I don't have anything to hide either. But I wouldn't want to be followed around and watched because I read some book or had a conversation. The President is above the law but should not be as the role of the executive branch is to reflect, not dictate the temper of the people.
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No the original investigations had to do with some failed real estate dealings and went from there to encompass everything that the Clinton's did for the previous 20 years. It was modern day witch hunt. People that support Bush do not endorse reality, for before he even became president he had several more shady dealings that he was directly involved in. He was investigated by the SEC and had those records sealed , several oil companies that failed, it is just too many things to put here. As for his presidency he has continually violated the Constitution and pushed the limits of executive powers. Now that the Democratic Party is in power their should be several investigations. The evidence that led up to the war, Halliburton, illegal wiretapping, Guantanamo, 9/11, holding American without charging them. Bush deserves to be in prison not the White House.
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He doesn't answer because it would be self-incriminating.... there isn't an investigation because the Congress is Republican...\nThe Republican Congress is the one that started the Clinton investigation...\nI would say that after the next election... investigations into a lot of different aspects will occur
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First off, Domestic Warrentless Spying is a misnomer.  For decades, the government can listen to calls without a warrent, and then go for a warrent afterwards.  In this case, the Bush administration used executive power to say that a warrent isn't even needed after the fact, which is something the Clinton adminstration did as well.  It is not to monitor your calls to your friends.  It is to monitor calls that are received from and placed to known terrorists overseas.\nSecond, Congress passed a law which Bush signed, creating strict restrictions against torture and affirming that it is illegal.  So, Bush isn't supporting torture.