Reply #87: I think Glenn Greenwald is more consistant than most [View All]

He wrote about appalling policies when they were instituted by Bush and then he did not reverse judgement when those same policies were upheld and continued by President Obama. Policies take precedent over personality and I agree with him. I don't think he cares who he agrees or disagrees with or who agrees or disagrees with him. That's why I enjoy reading him and I think his columns are most often interesting and informative. I think he causes a lot of discomfort for people who place personality over policy because that instigates a lot of pretzel logic as to why something was awful and unConsitutional under Bush but is ok under Obama.

I completely disagree with him on Citizens United and was pretty apalled at his stance. BUT, then I also disagreed with the ACLU who also came out for the 1st Amendment argument as opposed to the corrupting the entire country, buying elections, corporate personahood stuff which also apalled me. ACLU apologists say that they supported just one tiny aspect of the decision, but no one has yet to convince me that they still weren't on the wrong side on this one. The Supreme Court got this one very very wrong and it should be overturned or countermanded with airtight legislation. All the righties who scream about judicial activism should shut up forever after Citizens United since Roberts went out of his way to expand the scope of the issue before him to facilitate fascism/corporatism and to drown out the free speech of individual citizens forever.