You know how sometimes you’ll see someone who will have a strong opinion about something. Lets say this someone doesn’t like gas guzzling SUVs and they rail on people who drive them. Fast forward by, oh I don’t know, about five years and you come to find out that said person not only drives an SUV but also ridicules people who think that they can save the planet by driving a hybrid. Not exactly an apples to apples comparison but its close enough for this Obama comparison.
In 2004 senator-elect Barack Obama was on the horrible Air America radio broadcast with Randi Rhodes. They were discussing how President Bush was quickly forcing congress into passing the Patriot Act. “You don’t need to read the bill, time is of the essence.” That sort of thing
BARACK OBAMA: …When you rush these budgets that are a foot high and nobody has any idea what’s in them and nobody has read them.
RANDI RHODES: 14 pounds it was!
BARACK OBAMA: Yeah. And it gets rushed through without any clear deliberation or debate then these kinds of things happen. And I think that this is in some ways what happened to the Patriot Act. I mean you remember that there was no real debate about that. It was so quick after 9/11 that it was introduced that people felt very intimidated by the administration.
Gee this sounds awfully familiar to something that is going on right now. Only its Obama doing the exact same thing that he seemed so upset about only five years ago. So, unbeknownst to Randi Rhodes at the time, she actually did something good by exposing the hypocrisy of Obama. Thanks for looking out for us Randi. Finally why does it take a blog to uncover a interview that should have been dug up by the MSM?
