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In reply to the discussion: Obama’s “Dirty Wars” — and a soiled presidency [View all]boxman15
(1,033 posts)But that further undermines his claim.
The collective reaction to the NSA scandal has fallen somewhere in between "meh" and "Well, that's messed up, but I have nothing to hide, so I don't care."
I wish there was more outrage, but there's not. I agree this is not a healthy program for us to have (indeed, it undermines our democracy), and it is extremely disappointing coming from the Obama administration, but his claim that the American people have turned on Obama has no proof.
His other claim, that he'll only be remembered as the guy who spied on you and dropped drones on people, is also absurd. His legacy, for better or worse, hinges on the economy and the implementation of the health care law. If those go well, he'll be remembered as the guy who saved the economy, brought at least a bit of sanity to American health care, and left protections in place to make sure we don't end up back in the clusterfuck we found ourselves in in 2008.
And that's to say nothing on any of his hundreds of others of accomplishments at home and abroad.