--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 8/19/06 5:58:14 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Back when the issue was fresh, when the warrantless > aspect was being reported prominently, before the > administration and the Republicans had had a chance to > confuse things, a majority was quite clear that they > did not approve of warrantless wiretapping. > > > > Oy vay! who was trying to confuse who? The polls you sited were from > January. And the one that asked if impeachment proceedings should proceed against > Bush only mentioned if he were tapping people without a warrant. A very general > and vague question which even I would agree with. The Democratic poll never > mentioned national security and warrantless wiretapping of phone calls coming > into the US from Terrorists. However that was explained to the public over > the course of the debate and the public sides with the president on the issue, > at least as of May 11 2006.
Only because of the way it's been framed by dishonest Republicans--including the administration-- as I said. And even then, we don't know what the numbers would have been had the Post been honest enough to ask about WARRANTLESS wiretapping, instead of pretending the issue was wiretapping in general. As Lawson pointed out, it's likely the high percentage of negative responses to the Post's poll reflects the opinions of people who still remember that the issue is WARRANTLESS wiretapping. Hardly anybody opposes the idea of wiretapping terrorist suspects WITH a warrant. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
