and privacy was the reason I voted for him.... he was supposed to repeal the PATRIOT Act... Politicians, especially the president, really need to be held accountable for breaking their promises.
So I voted for Obama, and again when Romney started to sound like Bush.
Sheesh. So disappointed. Honestly, I am bothered by the NSA stuff but part of my empathy goes out to him and 'allows' that perhaps he is acting on information that we don't/can't know. Maybe there arose an enormous threat and he was desperate to stop it.
I await the day when he can tell the entire story of why he made the choices he did. I now fear that this is just fantasy on my part.
However, I see no excuse for going forward with Syria at this time. He would have the same effect if he got the UN and/or allies to agree to a strike if it happens again- rather than doing it for something that has passed.
So now I am really wondering who the hell the guy is.
Even an existential threat - an actual one like another nation-state pointing world-ending numbers of nuclear weapons at our country - is less harmful than dismantling the mechanisms of the state internally.
What could even possibly justify this kind of thing?