Greenwald: How extremism is normalized: Obama's Radical Interpretation of The Bill of Rights

[MadHound]

106. Ah yes, that open ended, Constitutionally shaky, Bush dream document

That vastly expanded presidential powers into very dangerous waters. You were against that, as we all were at the time, and justifiably so. It is nothing but a naked power grab and you know it.

But hey, now it's a president with a D behind his name, and all is good. Kill and murder American citizens, do away with privacy, tap everybody, do it all now, it's all good because there is a president with a D behind his name and we can truuuuuuuust him.

Let me tell you why the hell this sort of stupid, insane attitude is killing this country. Even if we can trust a president with a D behind his name(and that is a big, big, if), the problem is that this expands the power of the office itself, and sooner or later, if not Romney then some other Republican is going to get into office and have full use of those powers that Obama so conveniently expanded. Now thing of Rick Santorum, or Paul Ryan, or some other RW whack job using those powers to go after others. People who aren't terrorist, but are on their shit list(or like Nixon, an enemy list).

Now, do you really think that is a wise idea to expand those powers? To lay down that precedent? Especially when the term "terrorist" is such an amorphous one?

Think.