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RE: Meet your next President
November 16, 2014 at 1:36 am
(November 16, 2014 at 12:28 am)Heywood Wrote: Obama bombed Libya without congressional approval...and bombed Iraq without congressional approval. Now he is bombing Syria without congressional approval. I simply do not believe that Obama was stymied in Syria by the republicans as you suggest. The man hasn't let the republicans get in the way of any military action he has taken. He doesn't even bother to consult congress.
So is your beef that he's not enough of a warmonger or is running off to war without Congress.
By the by, that the GOP Congress can't even approve a WAR, something they always like to approve, underscores how dysfunctional they are.
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RE: Meet your next President
November 16, 2014 at 10:58 am
(November 16, 2014 at 10:12 am)Heywood Wrote: However Obama should have gotten congressional authorization for his military actions. Obama seems to think that he is above the law.
So is he a wimp who projects weakness all over the world, as you've written elsewhere, or is he an arrogant tyrant who rules by fiat and thinks he's above the law?
He can't be both Chamberlain and Hitler at the same time. Which is he?
Oh, by the way, it is legal for a president to take military action for a set number of days without approval. He's also made use of the blanket military authorization Congress has given the President for the Middle East theater, a law which is still in effect. Perhaps these laws need to change, and I would agree, but that's how the laws are now. You can't accuse him of being above the law unless he's broken the law.
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RE: Meet your next President
March 23, 2015 at 7:09 pm
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RE: Meet your next President
March 23, 2015 at 8:58 pm
I hadn't seen this thread before now, but I gotta say that I refuse to vote for a white boy wearing a fucking jerrycurl. That shit ain't flying.
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RE: Meet your next President
March 23, 2015 at 9:25 pm
(March 23, 2015 at 8:58 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I hadn't seen this thread before now, but I gotta say that I refuse to vote for a white boy wearing a fucking jerrycurl. That shit ain't flying.
That and he's bugfucked insane.
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RE: Meet your next President
March 23, 2015 at 9:28 pm
I think Paul comes across as more genuinely concerned with income equality and the rights of individuals than most other politicians. Either way, I'll almost certainly vote against Clinton.
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