Why did Barack Obama vote in favor of reauthorizing the Patriot Act?

Question

coragryph, www.ontheissues.org, just one of the many websites which shows his record...

Answer 1

He made a huge mistake by voting for that particular
piece of legislation .I would question whether or not he
actually does oppose the war in Iraq .

Answer 2

I will give the low down about Obama and you may not like it but if you follow the links to the policitco.com articles and read it all you will not like or trust Obama.
He is the biggest liar on the campaign trail.
1.. He used an innocent man in Iowa to get free new and his PR people lied to keep the spin going. This man is a Armenian Physicist here doing some work with some of the most important programs for Universities and the Government. And he was helping a friend in Cincinnati Ohio out with his novelty card business when Obama used him read the links.

2. He is not a Christian as you will not find one Muslim saying a word about his so called conversation from Islam. You can convert to Islam but not away as it is called a fatwa or to us a death sentence. No one word about this.

3. He stated he would invade Pakistan who is an alley on terrorism and barely holding on with eh Islamic extremist there. Which was done by Obama to destabilize this country that has a nuke and I will add the only Muslim country that does. Why would he do this even Hillary knows this is very bad.

4. He last week said he would never use the Nuke which was a signal that if he wins that they the Islamic terrorist who wishes us all to be dead can do it and he will not act. Id this what you want for a president? No look at what Turkey did to Christians and they will end all of the things you love on the left as we are all infidels to them and the left here is satin itself.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0707/Enter_the_Armenians.html

Answer 3

it breaks down like this the patriot act was expiring the republicans said lets renew it for 10 years, the Democrats said no we are completely against it its a bad thing we don't want to vote for it for another ten years of it infringing on our rights

so we will only vote for it for 4 years

and they did

vote 3rd party vote Ron Paul

Answer 4

Liberals carry with them the assumption that they are weak on national defense. He doesn't want to appear to be for the time being, that could be one reason. Another reason perhaps is that he realizes that only paranoid bed-wetters are really afraid of the Patriot act. I doubt that anyone could name 10 people in the whole country that have been harmed by the improper application of the Patriot act. I'm guessing that is still the case.

Answer 5

Because the "Patriot Act" isn't all that bad. It serves a useful purpose and doesn't actually effect you and me. It clearly doesn't effect a normal, average citizen. Why vote against it?

Answer 6

Because that is what the CFR wanted him to do. Just as Hiliary and Guliani or Romney or Edwards. Its all a part of the same sheet sandwich and if we dont get someone honest in the white house we are the ones that will end up taking the bite.
The truth has surfaced now its up to us.
Evil can only flourish when good men do nothing.

Answer 7

The man is still young and fairly new to the game. Give him time to realize the errors of some of his ways. At this time i couldn't vote for him, however i do truly believe he will in fact make an excellent president some day. Just not right now.

ancientcityentertainment: You are absolutely correct.

Answer 8

The nail that sticks out gets hammered.

Answer 9

The only way you will know for sure is to ask HIM. Not listen to postings that use name calling as an answer instead of any real knowledge.

Answer 10

i don't know. perhaps we should ask him. he must be available somewhere as he is a public servant. nyuk i'm more interested in ron paul. we need a real change and it seems he's it.