Its really crazy how far we've come in 5 years on policy in the US, especially on matters of national security. How did we go from liberals calling Bush "Bushitler" for waterboarding the mastermind of 911, to blowing American citizens to bits in drone strikes ordered by the executive branch? Obviously, the outrage over waterboarding was insincere and feigned. Its not the first selective outrage displayed by the intellectually dishonest American left and it wont be the last.

I thought waterboarding was OK because it was given the green light by a security council. Even Nancy Pelosi was present at those meetings and apparently the policy was carried out effectively, but I do have issue with one man in the executive branch at any given time having the power to assassinate a US citizen on US soil with no due process or trial. I could live with it if it were the result of a closed door security council on a bipartisan basis. Its still somewhat Orwellian and totally unconstitutional, but at least it is carried out by a panel and not just one man.

Our founders were very concerned with powers such as these and that is why they created separate branches of Government. Those wisdom of our founders seem to bother authoritarians like Obama. We shouldn't let him get away with that or fundamentally alter the ideas of our founding fathers. Those men came here knowing full well what it was like to live under Kings and Emperors. They knew what tyranny was like and their voices should never be silenced by an American President who holds them in contempt.