up under bush and cheney which obama has refused to stare down. i think it s a juggernaut that s out of control. hoovering up so much information, untram meld powers and taken this kind of surveillance to a whole new comprehensive level that picks up all the stuff. the fundamental principle has not changed if you could spy on any world leader you would do that. we were doing that before the nsa was put on steroids before 9/11. before it even existed. if they could spy on us they would, too. some of them probably do. so let s just face the reality that yes, in 2013 and before, spying does happen between country, between spouses, between bosses and employees. it happens with this technology. what we re seeing, i think, is that in the ideal world this shouldn t happen between friends. so the realists i think that s naive that friends thing. the ideas are not meshing.
that in the ideal world this shouldn t happen between friends. so the realists i think that s naive that friends thing. the ideas are not meshing. the idea your friends are always your friends when you re talking about international geopolitical politics, i m not with that. i do take your point with the fact the nsa is ridiculously out of control, and i don t think that anyone really knows the extent of what s happening. it breaks the international community s image that they had formed the perception of president obama. here he is the constitutional did they think that he really stopped all spying on people? no. i m not saying what they thought. they can t believe that. nobody believes that. remember candidate obama standing in berlin in front of those hundreds of thousands of people. if dick cheney were doing this, if we found out that george w. bush and dick cheney were doing this, nobody would bat an eyelash. they were in 2002. nobody bats an eyelash about
prerequisite of command and a luxury of those with an abundance of lives. et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. basically you ve got the national review, george will. yeah. tom coburn. yeah . charles krauthammer who last night was on special report. charles krauthammer said, where was ted cruz in 2009 when the republican uh s were fighting t kill obamacare? go down the list of conservatives, neocons, realists, people in the middle on the republican party, people on the right. ron johnson, tea party guy. a week ago everybody said this is a republican civil war. this isn t a republican civil war. this was ted cruz and a handful
as the great chronic l ler of those years, taylor branch, wrote, the movement here gained a force to open, quote, the stubborn gates of freedom, and out flowed the civil rights act, the voting rights act, immigration reform, medicare, medicaid, open housing. it is well to remember that the leaders and the foot soldiers here were both idealists and tough realists. they had to be. it was a violent time. just three months later we lost president kennedy. and we thank god that president johnson came in and fought for all those issues i just mentioned. just five years later we lost senator kennedy. in between there was the carnage of the fight for jobs, freedom, and equality. just 18 days after this march,
we take you back now to washington with former president clinton now speaking. out flowed the civil rights voting rights act. immigration reform. medicare, medicaid, open housing. it is well to remember that the leaders and foot soldiers here were both idealists and tough realists. they had to be. it was a violent time. just three months later we lost president kennedy. we thank god president johnson came in and fought for all those issues i just mentioned. [ applause ] just five years later, we lost senator kennedy. in between, there was the carnage of the fight for jobs, freedom and equality.