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• [1] darby rosengren from Helsinki, Finland--but my heart belongs to NYC March 12, 2009 - 12:11PM

  Hi! I think your guest wants to refer to 'civil LIBERTY' and not 'civil LIBERTARIAN', don't you? Or is there something he might want to clarify for us listeners?

  
  
• [2] Eric from B'klyn March 12, 2009 - 12:19PM

  Many of the Bush policies were based on an invocation of executive war powers? are we still in a state of war'. 2. Has there been revocation of Bush's Presidentail Directive: PD 51?

  
  
• [3] David Rakowski March 12, 2009 - 12:27PM

  State secrets privilege was created out of whole cloth based on governmental lies---Reynolds case. See "In The Name of National Security"

  Dave Rakowski

  Allentown, PA

  
  
• [4] Judy from NJ March 12, 2009 - 12:28PM

  I think President Obama is consistent with the ideas he put forth in his writings prior to running for President. I am not surprised with his centrist policies. I am surprised that so many people did not seem to really know his views. President Obama is what we need at this time in history.

  
  
• [5] Eric from B'klyn March 12, 2009 - 12:36PM

  follow-up... the executive war powers problem is that this war on terrorism is its

  open-endedness... which goes to: if we want to restore governmental balance of power, why not move away from war footing to an international crime?

  
  
• [6] mc from Brooklyn March 12, 2009 - 12:41PM

  Judy #4:

  I agree with you at least the first part. Anyone paying close attention to Obama's legislative history and policy statements should not be surprised. I think a lot of people saw what they wanted to see in him and now are having buyer's remorse. So.... pay better attention next time. As far as being what we need now...jury's still out. I am cautiously optimistic.