This video was uploaded on BarackObamadotcom youtube page on December 17, 2007 when he was Senator Obama and running for President. So everytime he mentions this administration, he is referring to the Bush administration. I have typed a transcript below:
This administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide. I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorits without undermining our constitution and our freedom. That means no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are. It is not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists. The FISA court works. Separation of powers works. Our constitution works. We will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the winds of stubborn rulers and that justice is not arbitrary. This administration acts like violating civil liberties is the way to enhance our security. Is is not. There are no shortcuts to protecting America.
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Weasel Zippers
written by Sfaff
Thursday June 6, 2013
Yeah, not so much.
Barack Obama may be leading the Democratic presidential pack in every major poll here, but that didn’t dissuade the Illinois senator from a final early-morning rally with the Facebook generation.Clearly not content to leave their votes to the whims of online politicking, the Illinois senator stepped onto a stage fashioned in a Dartmouth College gymnasium, pulled an index card from his inside jacket pocket, and launched into a familiar set of talking points centered on what has become a familiar theme for his campaign: change and hope.“My job this morning is to be so persuasive…that a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack,” he told a crowd of about 300 Ivy Leaguers–and, by the looks of it, a handful of locals who managed to gain access to what was supposed to be a students-only event.For one thing, under an Obama presidency, Americans will be able to leave behind the era of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and ”wiretaps without warrants,” he said. (He was referring to the lingering legal fallout over reports that the National Security Agency scooped up Americans’ phone and Internet activities without court orders, ostensibly to monitor terrorist plots, in the years after the September 11 attacks.)It’s hardly a new stance for Obama, who has made similar statements in previous campaign speeches, but mention of the issue in a stump speech, alongside more frequently discussed topics like Iraq and education, may give some clue to his priorities.
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