# Why aren't Progressives questioning the legality & morality of Obama's drone targeting policy?

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**Created:** [March 11, 2013, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-progressives-questioning-the-legality-morality-of-obamas-drone-targeting-policy/652659 "2013-03-11T22:28:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-progressives-questioning-the-legality-morality-of-obamas-drone-targeting-policy/652659/11 "2013-03-12T00:08:44Z")

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> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> Liberals/progressives don’t like the Democrats much better than they like the Republicans, you know.

As a progressive, I like the Democrats much more than I like the Republicans.

False equivalence is a key tool used by Republicans to turn off a good deal of the public.

I question the drone program too. But much as with Shirley Sherrod, with ACORN, with the early days of the ACA (I remember when it was dead), I’d like to take a bit of time to see what develops before following the right wing leading a credulous media to a hasty conclusion.

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