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NuttyFluffers

(6,811 posts)
Fri Jun 14, 2013, 04:36 AM Jun 2013

"Now go out and make me do it!"

what if Obama has been squeezing the whistleblowers so hard, harder than any previous administration, and lets Patriot Act spying continue to unprecedented -- and corporate outsourced -- levels, all to get us riled?

what if the easiest way to remove such NSA programs is to foment the anger through the long game?

perhaps Obama wants us to force him to stop these programs. we are arguing the wrong point. it is obviously a breach of constitutional power and we need to be upset enough to end this before it ends in the wrong hands.

however, to do that it has to be unpopular. and it is our job to rattle the democratic base and show him its unpopular.

we have to work together and "make him end it." he needs us to politically agitate against him. he needs our anger at him and the democrats to make us repeal these bad things! we fail him if we don't help him force ourselves to make him stop them!

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"Now go out and make me do it!" (Original Post) NuttyFluffers Jun 2013 OP
well I can see exactly what it is you fluff Skittles Jun 2013 #1
you never really loved him! NuttyFluffers Jun 2013 #5
Reverse psychology stops working on kids by about three or four Fumesucker Jun 2013 #2
pure, unadulterated, abject BULLSHIT datasuspect Jun 2013 #3
Wow jollyreaper2112 Jun 2013 #4
but he's saving us through inspiring resistance NuttyFluffers Jun 2013 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author YeahSureRight Jun 2013 #7
you may want to reword your post. NuttyFluffers Jun 2013 #8
Nor accurate. n/t Orsino Jun 2013 #10
In this case I think its best to convince congress to change the laws. DCBob Jun 2013 #9
yes! we must save him by electing leftist radicals! NuttyFluffers Jun 2013 #11
well that would make lots of folks here happy. DCBob Jun 2013 #12
but first there must be agitation before happiness NuttyFluffers Jun 2013 #13

NuttyFluffers

(6,811 posts)
6. but he's saving us through inspiring resistance
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 06:16 AM
Jun 2013

it makes sense. we have to be the change we needed. what better way than disillusionment?

why won't you help Obama be the best he can be by letting him get under your skin and agitate you into action!

you probably don't even have The List on your visualizing board...

Response to NuttyFluffers (Original post)

DCBob

(24,689 posts)
9. In this case I think its best to convince congress to change the laws.
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 07:16 AM
Jun 2013

There is no way a sitting President is going to back off legal anti-terror activities just because some on the left are upset about it.

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