June: Hillary on Snowden's "outrageous behavior"

[cthulu2016]

45. I see no profound distinction between Hillary and Obama on this issue, or

on any issue I can think of.

If there is a meaningful policy difference I can not name it.

But I have never seen the Snowden story as about Obama. I doubt that anyone in the 2008 primaries would have handled the wars or surveillance very differently, except Kucinich and Gravel who I consider too loony for the job.

There are a few folks whose interest in hating the NSA appears to be an extension of a general animus toward Obama. I am not one of those people and cannot speak for them.

I voted twice for Obama. I will vote twice for Hillary if she ends up being the Dem nominee twice.

And I will be morally disgusted by a lot of things she will do, as I am with a lot of things Obama does.

None of us asked for a two-party system, but we have one and Dems are better.

I suspect Hillary is a little worse on national security issues than Obama and have never thought for a moment she was on Snowden's side... and I doubt anyone thinks that.

Thus the recycling of old comments to disabuse people of notions that nobody has to begin with appears to be gratuitous shit-stirring, whatever your intent.

If you are trying to smoke out a handful of PUMA racist types (a few probably exist) then that's your game, and have at it. But it's a pretty wedgey game.