Obama encourages tattling

[lutherblsstt]

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Wednesday questioning his administration’s request for supporters to report “fishy” behavior on health care to an official White House e-mail address.

“I am not aware of any precedent for a president asking American citizens to report their fellow citizens to the White House for pure political speech that is deemed ‘fishy’ or otherwise inimical to the White House’s political interests,” Cornyn writes today in a harshly worded letter to President Barack Obama in which he asks the president to immediately halt the effort.

It’s not the first time the Obama operation has asked supporters to report back on misinformation spread about the president on the Web—but those efforts were largely conducted through his campaign operation and more recently through the party’s political arm at the Democratic National Committee.

Cornyn, a former member of the Texas state Supreme Court, further suggests that the data that is collected by the White House could “raise the specter of a data collection program.”

“As Congress debates health care reform and other critical policy matters, citizen engagement must not be chilled by fear of government monitoring the exercise of free speech rights.”

If the effort continues, the Texas Republican is asking the administration to detail to Congress and the public the protocols employed by the White House on what they are doing with the data. He further inquires if the administration intends to notify the citizens reported for “fishy” speech.

“Do your own past statements qualify as ‘disinformation’?” Cornyn concludes, “For example, is it ‘disinformation’ to note that in 2003 you said: ‘I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care plan’?”

The White House blog post was done to respond to a viral video posted on The Drudge Report that used clips of Obama other Democrats to suggest his health care plan will eliminate private insurance and lead to a single-payer system.

[EasyEJL]

Obama was always pretty fishy himself

[Zero V]

Damn I wonder how long I got until a black van pulls up to my house and I "vanish" and end up having an unfortunate "accident"....

Go tie 50lbs of weight to your wrists and jump in a 20ft septic tank and choke on the very crap you spew out Obama & Company.

[somewhatgifted]

brutal.

[omni]

A president against freedom of speech. A president against the constitution.

[AtlasEnduring]

A president against freedom of speech. A president against the constitution.

A president against free speech...not a president at all.

This administration is breaking too many rules for my comfort... I believe our government has reached the point of no return, and they will begin taking more and more from the peoples rights. They may deem it easy to monitor us, and yes this is true. But at the same time, there are people who have switched to low jack communications. Carrier pigeons are still trained you know...

[PumpDogg]

He should have never been elected when he would not prove citizenship, yet he was.. You reap what you sow, he was elected and look what it is reaping..............

[ax1]

im going to have to bring this thread to the presidents attention immediately.

or i can send these guys to your house, lol

these guys and many others are being funded by that health care bill that passed to enforce people to buy the health insurance product on the american people

[omni]

Snitch!

[TipTopShape]

why you hate obama? coz he is black?

[omni]

He's probably a nice guy, but he's a Socialist.

[ax1]

He's probably a nice guy, but he's a Socialist.

thats not good, Karl Marx was financed by Wall Street bankers to create a system to consolidate money/power to themselves, while the masses get chicken feed spread out to them. then when society starts decaying, the powerful elite just tell the masses, "keep going, you guys are all doing grreeeeaattt!"

actually i disagree 100% that he is a socialist. if you study and look at all the moves he has been doing he is a straight up corporatist. BP was his 3rd biggest campaign contributor for example just to start.

[AtlasEnduring]

thats not good, Karl Marx was financed by Wall Street bankers to create a system to consolidate money/power to themselves, while the masses get chicken feed spread out to them. then when society starts decaying, the powerful elite just tell the masses, "keep going, you guys are all doing grreeeeaattt!"

actually i disagree 100% that he is a socialist. if you study and look at all the moves he has been doing he is a straight up corporatist. BP was his 3rd biggest campaign contributor for example just to start.

To be honest I would prefer an old school monarchy. At least then we could kill the king if we dont like em and put a new one in place

lol.

Bust seriously the president is supposed to be the ultimate "public SERVANT" wtf are we doing bending to his will? His job is to make happen what the people will, not make the people fall under his.

If you put me in front of him, I would probably catch him with a right hook. So worth my death, even God would high five me when I died. hahah

[EasyEJL]

why you hate obama? coz he is black?

No, because he's a moron. Do you really think that sitting down at a table and having a nice talk with Iran is going to change their constant "Kill America" ranting? He does.

[ax1]

No, because he's a moron. Do you really think that sitting down at a table and having a nice talk with Iran is going to change their constant "Kill America" ranting? He does.

that wasnt the plan anyways, he wasnt really going to "sit down with iran"

thats just to win the votes for liberals.

if you follow everything he has said during his election, he has dont a total 180 and done the opposite.

but i have to disagree that he is a moron.......the morons are the voters, including myself who fell for his spell. i was tricked i admit it. at least i pay attention to everything he is doing and its all for the corporations, and banker elites.

if you watch what obama does and not what he says is really george bush's 3rd term.

you should all watch the "Obama Deception" on youtube. the movie came out shortly after he won the election and many things in this movie have recently come true.

[somewhatgifted]

thats right ax1, its a slow process but hopefully one day the "tin foil hat people" will be the majority. how can people move ahead with your eyes closed blind to the world and let the elites lead you? But hey im just a "_______" (insert some cheesy phrase that somehow in the minds of the simple justifies my error) Your a right wing, socialist, consipracy theorist, marxist, liberal, communist, hippie, conservative..... blah blah were all human getting fked by other rich humans. So instead of being divided and conquered squabbling the finite details why the heck dont people focus on the solutions and start standing up for something. I mean some people wont break the mould in a damn internet forum for fear of "negs" let alone grow a pair and change the world.

[ax1]

heck dont people focus on the solutions and start standing up for something. I mean some people wont break the mould in a damn internet forum for fear of "negs" let alone grow a pair and change the world.

because we are being bombarded by entertainment, and our brains are being re-wired into thinking irrelevant matters such as mel gibson is the important news.

the fact that mainstream media has its own agenda, people arent informed properly and all threats are re-directed to other irrelevant things.

whats most important to the country is what team lebron james plays for. the media hypes stuff like this up and people learn to care and pay most of their attention to these little things.

there is alot of psychological research involved with the elite and the media. propaganda is used masterfully and the world gets hypnotized, and to top it all off more and more people are being drugged by corporate doctors for things like being sad and having a bad day.

i can go on forever......but would you care for a sample of Prozac? it will make you feel real good, i prefer to chop it up with a razor and snort it with a toilet paper tube.

[AtlasEnduring]

because we are being bombarded by entertainment, and our brains are being re-wired into thinking irrelevant matters such as mel gibson is the important news.

the fact that mainstream media has its own agenda, people arent informed properly and all threats are re-directed to other irrelevant things.

whats most important to the country is what team lebron james plays for. the media hypes stuff like this up and people learn to care and pay most of their attention to these little things.

there is alot of psychological research involved with the elite and the media. propaganda is used masterfully and the world gets hypnotized, and to top it all off more and more people are being drugged by corporate doctors for things like being sad and having a bad day.

i can go on forever......but would you care for a sample of Prozac? it will make you feel real good, i prefer to chop it up with a razor and snort it with a toilet paper tube.

Dear God a man knows and understands the truth!

I just wish more people could see clearly, if just 50% of Americans had their eyes open this country would go for one hell of a "change on leadership"

[southpaw23]

Reporting back on misinformation is now considered a new form of tattling?

And here in NY we just call that grassroots politics. When Michelle Bachmann is allowed to spew 100% unadulterated craziness, without a shred of validity then her opponents should bring that to light, an informed public is an empowered public. That response is being quoted out of context. Those who signed up as supporters during Obama's campaign, are being urged to report political misinformation, and nothing is wrong with that.

If someone claims something, then they better be able to provide valid sources and by valid sources I'm not referring to an online "blog", an opinion column or someone's twitter account.

[AtlasEnduring]

Reporting back on misinformation is now considered a new form of tattling?

And here in NY we just call that grassroots politics. When Michelle Bachmann is allowed to spew 100% unadulterated craziness, without a shred of validity then her opponents should bring that to light, an informed public is an empowered public. That response is being quoted out of context. Those who signed up as supporters during Obama's campaign, are being urged to report political misinformation, and nothing is wrong with that.

If someone claims something, then they better be able to provide valid sources and by valid sources I'm not referring to an online "blog", an opinion column or someone's twitter account.

Whats counted as misinformation? Half of the things the president is working on we will have no "proof" of, because things will stay shady....

besides he spews more misinformation than anyone else, can we report him?