President Bush has put forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide. I will provide our intelligence and the law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom.
Obama criticized the trade-off between security and civil liberties under Bush's administration.
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We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…
The essence of Prop. 50 is to say that if you are going to play that game, then we are going to try to counteract that abuse of the system.
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