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A comment on Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying. Parent comment

Re:Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying by MattGrommes on Thursday January 16, 2014 @01:17PM (#7071317)
Imagine a presidential candidate making promises and saying a lot of things that he believed in about spying and how the agencies involved should work. Then he gets into office and finds out that things are much worse than he could have possibly known before getting into office. Would you prefer he keep to the path he laid out in campaigning or deal with reality as it is, even if it goes against his beliefs? I try to be smarter today than I was yesterday, I hope somebody in such a position of power would do the same.

Note that I have no idea if this is anywhere near true and I don't believe in what Obama and the various agencies have done but I do believe something like this is closer to the truth than some grand scheme by Obama to lie himself into power.

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Re:Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying by downandout on Thursday January 16, 2014 @01:27PM (#7071401)
Naivete is an arguable excuse for Obama's statements prior to his first election. But he continued his anti-surveillance rhetoric during his second campaign, and there is simply no explanation for that other than lying.
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Re:Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying by cmelbye on Friday January 17, 2014 @05:26AM (#7075111)
Did he? I can't remember that being an important issue at all in the 2012 election.
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Re:Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying by downandout on Friday January 17, 2014 @01:08PM (#7077346)
It wasn't at the forefront all that much, but he did say it and talked alot about how he was protecting our rights where Republicans weren't.
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Re:Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying by mkaziz on Thursday January 16, 2014 @01:25PM (#7071382)
It would be too much to hope that he would make the public aware of why he decided to change his opinion, would it?

Government always thinks it knows better.

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