Civil liberties disappear in the 2012 Democratic platform.

[RobinA]

209. I'm Still Waiting

for a response to the OP myself. This issue is the very reason I may not be at the polls this November, and that was a decision that was made before the platform even came out. The quoted article only adds to my extreme unease at what this party is becoming.

When, party and president supporters, is it OK to to take back this issue? Only when it is the Repubs to be opposed? I don't care who is surveilling citizens and running Guantanamo, I just want it stopped. Yes, Obama has done some good that would not otherwise have been done (health care, et al). But it seems we are asked to pay for our better health care with our civil liberties (I'm referring to existing Bush law unchanged by Obama, not the platform), and I'm not sure that's a wise move in the long run.