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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI don't see how it benefits the Right to encourage left wing oppostion to their programme.
They started all this crap. It is not clear to me why they would expose a programme they put a great deal of effort into simply to unseat a politician. Politicians come and go, legislature does not.
I do not regard the "it's an anti-Obama plot" as at all credible.
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I don't see how it benefits the Right to encourage left wing oppostion to their programme. (Original Post)
sibelian
Jun 2013
OP
You and the OP are whacking at straw men. But it makes you feel good, I'm sure.
KittyWampus
Jun 2013
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OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)1. Of course it doesn't.
However, the PR team here hopes that most of the neophytes will deny what their lying eyes are telling them and accept the "It's an anti-Obama plot!" rationale.
What that does not accomplish, the "attack the messenger" approach will take care of.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)2. +100
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)4. You and the OP are whacking at straw men. But it makes you feel good, I'm sure.
sibelian
(7,804 posts)6. I'm afraid not.
As you are well aware.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)3. very, very few DU'ers are pushing that line, so you raise a straw man. The issue is whether solving
the NSA problem resides in the Presidential office or Congress.
And then there is the question whether the person who started this episode has motives other than simply exposing NSA programs.
sibelian
(7,804 posts)5. It is those "few" to whom the OP was addressed.
Therefore: no "straw man".
"And then there is the question whether the person who started this episode has motives other than simply exposing NSA programs."
Is there? Why is there this question? What motives do you ascribe to them?
frylock
(34,825 posts)7. and that's where the conspiracy ends..
clearly, the agenda can't be to prevent another term for Obama. is it to harm the dem's chances in 2016? how can that be when several prominent dems have been very outspoken about their dislike of the NSA's snooping?