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Politics

Jon Stewart: "Your campaign was premised on reigning in presidential power. WHAT HAPPENED??"

Matt Welch | 6.16.2010 10:18 AM

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A useful collection of video clips showing President Obama's rank hypocrisy when (not) implementing Candidate Obama's high-sounding moral prescriptions for waging the War on Terror within the limits of the Constitution:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Respect My Authoritah
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party

"Oh, I see. You used to have a little, now you have a lot."

Link via Julian Sanchez's Twitter feed. Reason has been all over this story since inauguration; see for instance Eli Lake's examination of "The 9/14 Presidency" and Jacob Sullum's column last week on Obama's "License to Kill."

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NEXT: Spill Speech Latest Glaring Example of Obama's Vision Deficit

Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

PoliticsWar on TerrorPropagandaBarack ObamaTelevisionCultureCivil LibertiesPolicy
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