Reply #35: Don't you wish you could say...

[philpotts99]

that "our President" cares as much about constitutional rights as Ron Paul does? Don't you wish you could point to Obama's record of promises kept on Habeas Corpus, warrantless wiretapping, whistleblower protection, etc. etc. etc?-- instead of shamefully admitting that Obama is as bad as or worse than Bush on all of these?

Believe me, I think Paul's ideas about government participation in the economy are wrong, and his ideas about government intervention for civil rights are poisonous. But it is absolutely pathetic that no major Democrats, and especially not Obama, will defend our constitutional rights against the police and military powers of the State. Without habeas corpus, what other rights do we really have? Why have almost all Democrats ceded the moral high ground on constitutional rights to a Republican dinosaur?

Besides, Obama is the one putting medicare, social security, and public education on the block, so what will be left of the social programs that we are supposed to be protecting against Ron Paul? Did Ron Paul put Arne Duncan in charge of education, or Alan Simpson in charge of deficit cutting?

I wish I could say I'm disappointed in Obama, but his cowardly Senate votes on constitutional issues (e.g. warrantless wiretapping) told me what was to come. I still voted for him, but without much hope for change.