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Really? you don't like him cause he is running to the middle? He asked that an exemption be removed from a bill that would allow American citizens to be held indefinitely without any due process or trial and you are worried that he isn't a liberal? Any one of us could at least for a time be arrested and held without a warrant, without any notification that we are being held by the U.S. government, without evidence, without a trial and you are still worried about his progressive credentials. In fact laws like this are completely progressive, showing a foul willingness to change the way government deals with problems, not fettered by things like constitutions, tradition or even decency.
This president is an outrage.
Don't get me wrong, what I mean, is that the center he is running towards is not a real center at all. It has been defined by a right that has forgone reality and settled on idealism and slogan. I'm extremely disturbed about the state of things, and Obama's politics.
I wrote both my Senators (Levin sponsored that Bill), and the Obama campaign about that Bill. The Obama campaign's response was basically: "But he added a signing statement." Neither Levin or Stabenow responded, which is unusual for them.