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In reply to the discussion: Why did it take a Democratic administration for Snowden to become a dissident? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)But we have become familiar with these distractions. They are not distracting people from issues. Seems it is all about one politician for a few people. I challenge YOU since rather than discuss the issue you chose to make this personal about me, thanks, I didn't think I was that important, to find a single post of mine that ever 'blamed' Obama, not that he is the issue either. I tend to look at the more important picture, THIS COUNTRY and have little interest in politicians on a personal level.
Thanks for a demonstration of what many people have noted though. Democrats, who didn't care that Drake was a REPUBLICAN when HE exposed Bush's malfeasance. Democrats who cheered for him for having the guts to expose the dangerous policies Bush and his gang of war criminals were putting in place.
I don't recall anyone attacking all the Whistle Blowers who came before Snowden, exposing these spying programs, based on their POLITICS. They, we said, AMERICANS, who put their party politics aside for the sake of the country.
Drake, Whistle Blower, Republican, did his duty. Good thing he was there when Bush was in the WH or his popularity among Dems would be very different, at least among SOME Dems.
Binney, Whistle Blower, Republican, did HIS duty too. Good thing he was around during the Bush years or he too would be accused of being 'a Republican'.
Tice, what were his politics? No one on the Left even asked, he exposed Bush's spying program, that's all we needed to know.
Snowden, well, unfortunately for him his revelations came after Bush's departure. Suddenly his politics are important. Why is that?
Had the very same person, Snowden, had access to the same info during the Bush years, I am willing to bet YOU would be calling him a hero.
I called all of them heroes. That is the difference between us. Because for me, and now a majority of Americans, it is about this COUNTRY, which takes, as it did during the Bush Whistle Blower era, precedence over party, over politics, over politicians. That is how it was for me then and that is how it still is.
I am so not interested in politicians when it comes to these issues. If they have done nothing wrong they don't need me to defend them. But this country badly needs someone to stand up for it, it needs badly for its citizens to set aside their personal agendas and focus on the destruction of the democracy it has aspired to be, that has taken place over the past decade or so.
You appear to think that if someone disagrees with you they are attacking you. That's YOUR problem, not mine. I will continue to do what I did during the Bush years, applaud those who stand up for this country regardless of their politics, because some things are way, way more important than that.