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Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
5. Because he is the President.
Sun Dec 22, 2013, 11:35 AM
Dec 2013

I found that noteworthy too. While it is not fair, to be sure, it certainly is something to consider politically. Obama better take some positive steps to reverse the situation if this isn't the legacy he wants.

 

appal_jack

(3,813 posts)
8. Agencies fall under the Executive Branch.
Sun Dec 22, 2013, 11:58 AM
Dec 2013

Agencies fall under the Executive Branch. Obama has the power to end at least the worst excesses of spying on Americans right now. Between 2001 and 2008, unconstitutional actions by the NSA were the fault of B*sh. But Obama has had five years to clean house, and has shown no signs of doing so either before or after the Snowden revelations. The buck stops at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The deficit (and the federal budget as a whole) requires Congressional action. To his credit, Obama has worked well with Congress to reduce the deficit throughout his time in office. The RW might like to hang the entire responsibility for the 'deficet' around Obama's neck, but in order to do so, they display a woeful ignorance of both history & basic civics.


-app

 

MyNameGoesHere

(7,638 posts)
6. Because we don't listen to Nixon when he said the president is above the law.
Sun Dec 22, 2013, 11:37 AM
Dec 2013

And bush was singled out here in another alternate dimension. Before we entered this alternate dimension.

 

Android3.14

(5,402 posts)
9. It's not his fault if he ignores it, right?
Sun Dec 22, 2013, 01:24 PM
Dec 2013

For me, it's like doing nothing when you see a mugging victim injured on the ground. Yes. He deserves this.

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