Posted on 06/11/2013 3:50:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Rev. Al Sharpton said Monday that President Barack Obama is not to blame for the National Security Agency's secret surveillance program—former President George W. Bush is, because laws allowing it were enacted under his administration.
“These are laws put into effect under President Bush. There are plenty of Democrats who are upset about this too. I do not agree with the Patriot Act, but you can’t blame President Obama for it,” Sharpton said on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation.”
In 2009, however, Obama extended three provisions of the Patriot Act—allowing roving wiretaps, which would allow monitoring of an individual instead of a specific number; seizure of financial, medical, library and other records of suspected terrorists; and monitoring someone suspected of engaging in terrorism who may not be linked to a specific terrorist group, the Washington Times reported on Sept. 16, 2009. …
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Obama’s supporters don’t blame him for anything nefarious. But they sure give him credit for everyone else’s successes!
Exactly... for liberals Obama is the president who is everything and nothing all at the same time.
YES WE CAN!!!!!!!!!!!
Naturally. All the other America-hating communists rush to his aid.
They’ve GOT to keep an eye on those white devil teabaggers, for sure.
Sharpton: The poster boy for the 95% of the demographic group that voted for Obama.
Well yes Rev Race Pimp we can blame Obama..
Blame we much!
Hey, al! I can if I want to. And I want to. So there.
They don’t get any dumber than “Rev” Al. He can barely talk.
Rev Race Pimp: Tawana Brawley
What can you “Blame”him for?Not flushing the toilet(or not putting the seat down”????????????????
Sharpton: You Can’t Blame Obama for Secret Surveillance, it’ all you white devils setting up the black man.
All the Statists out there who want to hang Snowden.....you have a friend in Black Ku Klux Klan Racist Al Sharpton.....ain’t that sweet.
Al gotta another honky he want to lynch
The hunt for Bin Laden began under Bush. BO changed nothing in that hunt when he became president. Yet he wants credit for finding Bin Laden.
These liberal asses want it both ways.
Did Obama try to overturn the Patriot Act? Maybe I missed it. Obama did not reverse it or even try to reverse it via Congress ... so Obama himself ... personally ... is to blame for it.
BENGHAZI, IRS, BLACK PANTHERS, VOTING FRAUD, FAST AND FURIOUS, ELIGIBILITY, he did all that shit, but no way did he have anything to do with the SECRET SURVEILLANCE.
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