them from a reactionary right wing not afraid to erode individual privacy rights by increasing the ability to use eminent domain to claim property, using torture and extraordinary rendition as a way to extract questionable information to the detriment of our nations fundamental beliefs and our global image as a country with high moral standards. The last administration just about threw out the Uniform Code of Military Justice along with habeas corpus! I could go on and on...we lost more freedoms under Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Bush than the all the history of the Presidency combined before them...the founding fathers were rolling in their graves until Obama won. GV | 8.11.09 @ 7:58PM Plato's Cave. Ben is interpreting shadows. Nice job and, oh yeah, wake up. WAKE UP! Please, wake up America. We the people need to be marching in the streets for our liberties heretofore guaranteed by the Bill of Rights not bickering about the lies propagated by the Matrix of our "two party system". HA! Wake up America and stop watching the sideshows called TARP and Health Care Reform, etc, etc... We the People have been given reason to fear our own government, when they should be acting as if in fear of the people KICKING THEIR BUTTS OUT! Caroline Irby | 8.12.09 @ 2:22AM Just like 'hope and change' without specifications, you expect your words to be accepted without any specifics. Sounds like an Obama voter to me... All words and no substance. Let me tell you