Pres. Obama is hoping that we're goddamn idiots out here, still cowed by talk of 9-11

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38. I'm a fan of the president, rbrnmw

. . . what I wrote in this post is my reaction to what I see as nothing less than a betrayal of almost everything we were protesting for the entirety of Bush's two devastating terms. I'd like to have heard from the President a complete repudiation of Brennan's cabal partner's 9-11 era abuses and constitutional overreaches.

What I got was a Bush-like use of intimidating language about terror designed to make us believe we were too afraid to expect anything better from our nation's leaders. I don't know... maybe Pres. Obama will take another stab at it and knock my socks off when the actual report comes out.

Tell you what, though. I can't even think of congressional elections right now. If our party manages to prevail, or even advance our majority, it will be because voters recognize we stand for something more than just preserving and coddling the status quo. I expect the politicians to provide the impetus for us to vote for them.

I would suggest they find a way to rise above this type of mollycoddling of the worst of our political system and challenge our government to actually do more than just pay lip service to the ideals they mouth to curry our political favor.