re: "Nanny state"
A State that has no problem deciding what you should have in your own refrigerator has exactly the same mindset as a State that listens to your phone calls, and vice versa.
In addition to his many new ideas on running our lives, Obama has cheerfully continued almost all of the heavy-duty security policies that Bush and presidents before him had put in place. You really think leftists have a historical problem with tapping phones?