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Honestly, my problem with the TSA stuff is that it feels like an extension of Bush tactics...I didn't vote for Obama to continue everything the other guys were doing.
http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/1110/full_throttle_514b4601-3bfd-4372-bbb1-731f2904a2aa.html
The naked body scanners were being installed under Bush...so, I and many liberals tend to see this as Obama continuing the very direction we wanted him to steer away from.
Thom
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From: Peter T. Chattaway <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>
To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, Nov 30, 2010 9:28 am
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] The Partisan Mind
Steve Sailer replies to Douthat's article:
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http://isteve.blogspot.com/2010/11/ross-douthat-writes-in-nyt-imagine-for.html
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Okay, but what happens when elites of both parties are in favor of a bad idea? To return to air security, President Bush campaigned in 2000 against ethnic profiling of Arabs and Muslims by airport security and Al Gore immediately said "Me, too!" Bush's Transportation Department had been running a big program in 2001 to crack down on profiling of passengers who look like Arab terrorists at the time that 19 Arab terrorists got on their flights on 9/11. (See my 9/11/2001 article for UPI, "Bush had called for laxer airport security.") Did the Democrats rush to denounce Bush for making it easier for Mohammed Atta to board? Did Republicans turn on Bush?
No, what happens is largely that the issue disappears down the old memory hole.
Similarly, how about Bush's push for more zero down payment mortgages in the name of fighting racist redlining?
I've largely devoted my career to raising unwelcome questions about bipartisan elite consensuses. It's not a wise career choice.
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