Ed Schultz: Snowden not a patriot, I don't trust him, I'll go with Obama and his assessment

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79. I like Ed immensely and only

wish he was on his old schedule. On the issue of Snowden, I strongly disagree with him. So what?Every Friday for the past 13 or so years I have met with the same five guys for a beer ( or two). They are all solid folks on the left. A couple of them think Snowden should have "faced the music." Two of the group were resisters back in the day. Both faced serious shit. At least one thinks Snowden would have been nuts to turn himself in, given where things are in the country regarding whistleblowers. Obviously, we are all still friends and agree on more than we disagree.

With all the stuff going on - from the NSA revelations to TPP to ( in our neck of the woods) fracking to the pretty insane Supreme Court to the attack on women's rights to the hollowing out of social services, we really need to try and get our shit together and not concern ourselves with bullshit about whether someone thinks Snowden is or is not a patriot. For me, this is the "politically informed" version of whether his girlfriend was a pole dancer.

One thing our Friday group all agrees on, though, is that we are all disappointed in President Obama, with the Democratic Party in general, and with pretty much the whole "where else are you going to go?"