The Rude Pundit - Of Kill Lists, Drones, and Presidents

[RevStPatrick]

13. Is that all you got?

The old "empty lives" routine?
"Cross draggin' cred"?
You obviously don't know me, but that's OK.

When I made my post in the BOG group, I wasn't really paying attention to where I was, just to what was being said. I suppose I didn't realize at the time that there are places now on DU3 where one simply is not allowed to say what one wants to say. Some rah-rah group host decided to call me ignorant and ban me from saying what appeared to me to be the obvious.

When Bush was expanding presidential power, part of the reason why we here at DU were opposed to what he was doing, was so that future presidents would not have inappropriate powers over we, the people. Now that it's a Dem president that has those powers, and is extending some of those powers even further, it's OK?

And it's not appropriate to point out that "our" president is now using executive powers that we wouldn't want the "other guys" to have? Does it not bother you that "our" president has a list of people he wants assassinated by drones without any kind of legal protections for those to be assassinated? And if some kids or other innocents just happen to be there when the bombs rain down and get caught in the crossfire, it just "collateral damage" and "oh well!"? Do you want Romney to have that kind of power? Didn't we spend years here complaining about Bush having that kind of power?

I suppose I need to take Ari Fleischer's advice, and "be careful what I say"?
Is that how it works now?