In following up the last post, it’s a trap for the Democratic Candidates to position themselves on the other side of the Bush argument. The correct thing to do is dissect the Administration’s arguments, to analyze them in depth for what is reasonable, and what is crazy. Our government is deeply paranoid right now. One never confronts the data with paranoid people, the observations are usually fairly clear minded. One confronts their conclusions, and the logic by which they reach them. A sensible strategy is to expose their paranoia and its impact on our basic governmental principles – over and over and over.
So, of course we need NSA surveillance, but not without judicial review. Of course countries like Iraq, Iran, and North Korea are rogue nations that bear close scrutiny, but not war, not "The Bush Doctrine." Of course we need a strong Executive, strong leaders, but not at the expense of our Legislative bodies. It’s their conclusions that are the problem, not the threat they use to reach them.
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