http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articl ... 21910.html
..."Speaking of the Obama Justice Department, its former Office of Public Affairs director, Tracy Schmaler, was reported to have worked closely with the George Soros-funded Media Matters for America on stories slamming critics of the administration. When the story alleging this public-private political partnership came out, Schmaler resigned -- and then went to work for former Obama political operative David Axelrod.
Going after reporters? Obama regularly blames Fox News by name for its criticism. In 2008, he seemed to enter into a personal grudge match with Fox's Sean Hannity.
Ignoring the law? The Affordable Care Act as currently administered bears little resemblance to the law that was passed by Congress and signed by the president. Federal immigration law is now a matter of enforcing what the president allows and ignoring the rest.
Wiretaps? Well, aside from the electronic surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency, the Obama Justice Department secretly monitored Fox News reporter and sometime critic James Rosen. The Justice Department even seized his e-mails and phone records in fear that he might publish administration leaks. To hide these shenanigans, the Justice Department fraudulently dubbed Rosen a flight risk and a possible criminal co-conspirator.
There are a few differences, however, between the transgressions of Nixon and Obama, and America's reaction to them.
The old watchdogs of civil liberties that took on Nixon -- the America media of the Watergate era -- are now silent. For them, Obama is not right-wing, easily caricatured, unappealing or an old anti-communist agitator, but an iconic liberal, charismatic, and in the past an experienced community organizer. A Democratic Senate majority now has little interest in auditing Obama, though it once zealously pounced on Nixon's misdeeds.
If you once suggested that Nixon's team was violating constitutional principles, you were hailed as speaking truth to power. Try that with progressive Obama, and you are likely to be caricatured as some sort of embittered Tea Party zealot at best, a retrograde racist at worst."...
Read more:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articl ... z2wBF1mk00
Follow us: @RCP_Articles on Twitter
