Is Barack Obama more conservative than Hugh Hewitt?
Hugh Hewitt, conservative blogger:
Senator Obama is part of the left’s political elite that believes the U.S. is the problem, and that the U.S. government is not to be trusted to treat its citizens fairly or to use intelligence tools responsibly or act against terrorists prudently. (Emphasis added.)
Isn’t it a tenet of conservatism that, indeed, government is not to be trusted, especially with extraordinary powers?
I support renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Protect America Act [Fixed. —Ed.], and I’m not defending Obama’s policy views. But the charge that a man is reluctant to trust government is usually one that’s leveled at conservatives, not by them.
(True, Obama’s reluctance is selective. But that doesn’t undermine my point.)