"Rand Paul v Barack Obama: A prelude to 2016"

[applegrove]

Rand Paul v Barack Obama: A prelude to 2016

By Leigh Ann Caldwell, CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/12/politics/rand-paul/

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Signed on to Paul's lawsuit is anti-establishment political organization FreedomWorks. Representing them is Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia's firebrand former attorney general, who lost his bid in November to be Virginia's governor.

Paul is also promoting the suit through his political action committee, RandPAC, and while he said the legal move could impact hundreds of millions of people, he is asking 10 million of them to sign on to the class-action suit through his website.

Asking for email addresses of class-action participants could be an effective way to increase a list of campaign supporters.

"Senator Paul can tap into those that are angry at the NSA and use the large number of class action participants to fundraise for a potential 2016 presidential run," Republican strategist Ron Bonjean said.

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He's now going to start a new non partisan organization, not RandPAC, for people of both parties to sign up on. He thinks this will be a huge non partisan case. And despite the fact that Freedomworks was at the press conference yesterday. Guess he rethought this or his GOP bosses did, and they saw an opportunity to get some democrats to become libertarians or at least to get the email address of the more libertarian democrats. So they changed their gameplan.

[politicaljunkie41910]

1. Pres Obama will have all the legal power he needs to bring against Paul and FreedomWorksIsNotFree

[TheMathieu]

2. I'd put the NSA in charge of the country before I'd even let Rand Paul vacuum the oval office. nt

[applegrove]

3. LOL!

[lostincalifornia]

4. Since congress authorized the NSA, and it has been used before Obama

He is going to have a problem putting this on the president

[Jamaal510]

7. +1

[Gothmog]

5. Juanita Jean had fun with this story

http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/02/13/do-not-copy-my-homework/

[applegrove]

6. That's great.

[Vattel]

8. It is sad to say, but Paul and not Obama is right about this issue

It seems doubtful that the suit will prevail but one can always hope.

[lostincalifornia]

9. Why is he specifically going at Obama, and not the NSA, and those who created it. I may be going

out on a limb, but I might just think it is more about being political and getting attention for Paul, and focusing the tea bagger hate on Obama then actually trying to end it. Hell, the asshole could introduce a bill to curtail the powers of the NSA, but I don't see him doing that either.