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But somehow liberals have drifted into a strange servility toward big government, which they revere as a godlike foster father-mother who can dispense all bounty and magically heal all ills. The ethical collapse of the left was nowhere more evident than in the near total silence of liberal media and Web sites at the Obama administration's outrageous solicitation to private citizens to report unacceptable "casual conversations" to the White House. If Republicans had done this, there would have been an angry explosion by Democrats from coast to coast. I was stunned at the failure of liberals to see the blatant totalitarianism in this incident, which the president should have immediately denounced. His failure to do so implicates him in it.
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This author has no idea how to contextualize remarks as report casual conversations. What that request was about was reporting to the White House what people were saying about Universal Health care, not monitoring people's thoughts or opinions on the matter. This simply wish to be able to combat against the negative spin being put on their healthcare reform. Nothing really totalitarian about it.