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2016 Postmortem

farleftlib

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1. There was nothing more UNpatriotic than the PATRIOT Act

Reply to TheDormouse (Original post)

Sun Mar 13, 2016, 07:43 PM

Mar 2016

It should never have passed in the first place, but there was immense pressure for it in 2001. No such pressure existed in the years afterward. It is a mark of cowardice to have voted for it multiple times.

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Hillary has been pro-Patriot Act; Bernie has been anti-Patriot Act [View all] TheDormouse Mar 2016 OP

There was nothing more UNpatriotic than the PATRIOT Act farleftlib Mar 2016 #1

+1 nt Xipe Totec Mar 2016 #6

Even were the votes reversed, that would not cancel out, for me, Hillary's negative or Bernie's djean111 Mar 2016 #2

One believes in Democracy a lot more than the other. Octafish Mar 2016 #3

Yes, it makes voting for her unconscinable JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #4

Yes it does noretreatnosurrender Mar 2016 #5

Pretty hard to hit Hillary for that vote ibegurpard Mar 2016 #7

Hillary is STILL for the Patriot Act--Bernie is STILL against it TheDormouse Mar 2016 #8

Hillary once admitted she was wrong on Patriot Act? TheDormouse Mar 2016 #9

No, I already knew Sanders was good. Betty Karlson Mar 2016 #10