OBAMA Says He Will "Review Every Executive Order Issued By Bush"

[kpete]

Candidates rouse crowds in Wyoming

By David Olinger
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 03/08/2008 08:26:59 AM MST


CASPER — Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton crisscrossed Wyoming on Friday, campaigning for every available vote in a state that last voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in 1964.

Saturday's prizes: 12 delegates in the Wyoming caucuses and precious momentum in a seesaw primary race.

Obama told a cheering crowd at a town-hall meeting in Casper that he would restore respect for law in the White House by reviewing every executive order issued by President Bush and discarding any deemed unconstitutional.

Obama's comments came in response to a question from a man in the audience who said he worried that presidents sometimes consider themselves above the law.

more at:
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_8498322

[tekisui]

1. Good on you, Obama!!!

When you review, prosecute the Constitutional violations!!!!

He has also vowed to close gitmo and restore Habeas Corpus.

[roguevalley]

20. He nails it. He has my vote. Happily. Thank you, Mr. Obama.

[nvme]

43. Here's another thought

I may be wrong but it should go a step further by Possibly ( I am not sure on the constitutionality) rescinding all signing statements. They were given as way the shrub laying groundwork to circumvent the law.

[hueyshort]

65. You mean he'll have his surrogates Review?

I don't think Obama gets into details.

[ekwhite]

94. Being that he teaches Constitutional Law

I believe he will review them himself.

[papau]

91. he tells us a nice thing - but what does he tell the corporations and other nations?

[movonne]

97. You mean does he lie like hillary???

[calimary]

148. Well, knowing nothing else, this alone would clinch it for me.

That's ABSOLUTELY one of the things OUR new president simply MUST do. A total and across-the-board ESSENTIAL. Priority ONE.

Hopefully that includes the sneaky-ass decision to lock up all the presidential papers from reagan on up. Funny enough, including bush's daddy's papers. I WANNA SEE THOSE MOST OF ALL!!!!!!! (Well, besides junior's, that is.)

This is VERY good to hear. Go, O!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Obama is a constitutional lawyer so he will restore integrity in the WH

[frog92969]

39. Also a Professor of Constitutional Law

[LostinVA]

56. Not a professor -- he taught some classes

I have friends who work in academia, and being named a Professor is a big deal.

[michaz]

58. And your point is? Can you teach classes in Constitutional Law?

Being able to teach these classes is a big deal. You do have to know it to teach it! Duh!

[LostinVA]

59. Why the snottiness because I made a legit point?

I am qualified to teach other law-related higher education classes -- are you? DUH? See how TOTALLY unnecessarily rude that is. And, even though I can, that doesn't make me a professor. Nor does being an EMT means someone can be called doctor.

Jesus, another one for ignore.

[BearSquirrel2]

75. Professor is a rank

Professor is an academic rank. It's like being a "made man" in academia. You're tenured and you can pretty much teach how you like from that point on. You still have to report to the bosses (department head, dean, president) though and they can make your life difficult (more classes, lower level) if you piss them off.

[Kajsa]

78. and then we have the titles within

the title of Professor,

Associate Professor
Full Professor

did I miss any?

[BearSquirrel2]

86. Sounds right ..

It's like saying Colonel ... there are different kinds.

I have to constantly correct my students when they call me professor. I am just a graduate lecturer.

[RainDog]

137. goes like this

with a PhD and an appt to teach at a U. the first level is Assistant Professor, if you get tenure, you are moved to Associate Professor. You then have another review in X amt. of years and you are then appointed to Full Professor status. Each level has salary minimums for that U. and that discipline. If you do amazing work and get nominated for a Pulitzer, etc. you can then be the "XX Professor of XX. The first is the name of someone who has endowed a dept. or U. with funds to reward work.

Just as anyone who works in a library is not a librarian (and there are all sorts of diff. kinds of librarians, too, some whose work involves tenure, just like Profs, and whose specialities do not overlap, anyone who teaches at a U. is not a professor. Someone who is a professor in one discipline is not a professor in another simply b/c of a PhD. Someone who is not a professor who teaches classes because of his/her expertise is generally called a Lecturer or a Visiting Scholar, etc.

I probably missed some of it, too. LostinVA makes a good point. No need to get upset with that. It doesn't detract from Obama's credentials because he would not teach at a well-regarded U. if he didn't have the chops.

[midnight]

92. Try telling that to the Professors with their Phd.'s.

That's like calling my mother who is a nurse a doctor because she is teaching a medical class. No one would ever extend that to my mother. Unless of course this women,my mother, had her doctorate.

[Forrest Greene]

134. So Carefully Worded

Law-related higher education classes = Driver's Ed?

[GMFORD]

150. LostinVA makes a valid point.

Obama is careful not to call himself a constitutional law professor and we should be careful too. It just gives the opposition a hanging thread to try to knit a sweater from.

[frog92969]

79. Oh, I stand corrected.

I'm just a bricklayer who doesn't know the difference between a professor and a university teacher.
No attempt at deception was intended.

[Adelante]

143. That's right, he wasn't

Not for want of offers he declined.

[niceypoo]

152. Professors have PHDs

[BearSquirrel2]

73. He's was a Lecturer ...

Though, I'm fairly certain that this wasn't a community college deal. U Chicago doesn't fuck around.

[frog92969]

81. You know what they say about assume

I thought you had to be a professor to teach at university, my bad.
It was U of C though, and definitely a plus in my book.

[BearSquirrel2]

87. You joking ???

What you never had a foreign TA? Your college experience is obviously incomplete.

Professors really aren't teachers per se. Their primary function is the generation of knowledge. Teaching is something that is done on the side. Teaching low level classes (especially remedial stuff) is often relegated to Limited Term Lecturers and Graduate Aids (me).

[frog92969]

100. No

My college experience is nonexistent, there's nothing funny about that.

[Pacifist Patriot]

147. I have a college degree and...

I've never been taught by anyone who wasn't a professor. There are schools out there that do not use TAs. So please don't assume if someone is unfamiliar with TAs that it means their college experience is obviously incomplete. I am familiar with them, but I've got a couple of alumni friends who wouldn't have a clue what you were talking about if you used the term.

[BearSquirrel2]

160. You'll forgive us ...

You'll forgive those of us who went to state schools then that allowed graduates to answer our questions in recitation.

[Pacifist Patriot]

161. Um, no snootiness was intended.

Your generalization didn't apply to several of us whether we had college educations or not, that's all.

[BearSquirrel2]

163. I think if you reread ...

I think if you reread my original statement, you'll find it's a form of hyperbole as in:

"Dude, if you haven't seen Seinfeld you haven't really seen TV."


Do I have to explain any more? I've got an Khazak grad student ready to do it in a thick accent.

[RazBerryBeret]

90. oooooh...

I knew you were gonna be jumped for that comment..

[frog92969]

96. It seemed so innocent at the time.

[RazBerryBeret]

105. he he he...

I'm relatively new around here--but I saw that one coming!!!

[tammywammy]

3. Excellent

I would also hope that Hillary Clinton would do the same.

[goclark]

4. Has Hillary had "experience" as a Constitional lawyer?

[shraby]

6. Only in figuring out how to circumvent

the constitution...that's where her consitutional experience has come from.

[jgraz]

49. I don't know. How many Constitutional lawyers has she slept next to?

Apparently this is how she picks up experience.

[Shae]

135. Aww you didn't have to say that

Now I have to clean the coke off my monitor.

[Kokonoe]

70. No, but she stayed in a Holiday Inn.

[indimuse]

52. she would..

..

[Thor_MN]

61. She would what? Sleep next to a constitutional professor, or gain "experience" by doing so?

[maddiejoan]

76. She will

She was asked this as a question in one of the debates (I forget which) but it was asked of all the Democratic candidates that were on the stage.

Biden, Dodd, Richardson, Edwards, Obama, AND Clinton --and they all responded they would.

[tammywammy]

107. Thanks maddiejoan

Now that you say it, I remember that debate. Thanks for refreshing my memory.

[Mme. Defarge]

5. Well, considering that

I just donated to Obama last night, and re-registered from Independent to Democrat this morning so that I can vote for O. in the Oregon Primary, and volunteered to work on his campaign -- all on faith, since protecting the constitution is my most important issue -- this is very good news indeed!

[goclark]

7. Yea for Mme. Defarge nt

[Mme. Defarge]

14. Entre nous, s'il vous plait ...

after being on DU for almost 4 years, I have not yet figured out the meaning of "nt" -- could you translate please?

Merci!

[bicentennial_baby]

16. I'll tell ya!

It means "no text", as in no text included in the body of the post.

[Mme. Defarge]

17. Madame Defarge ...

likes to be "au current" and appreciates your assistance!

[bicentennial_baby]

18. Mais oui! Pas de probleme!

[DeeDeeNY]

60. Check out the DU glossary

Some great stuff--

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[Mme. Defarge]

153. Coolness! n/t

[I Have A Dream]

146. Here's the link to the DU Glossary where many things like this are explained.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[OKDem08]

50. Merci beaucoup, Mme Defarge

C'est tres bien. Au revoir mon ami.

[90-percent]

62. the Constitution

This is my most important issue also. Well, the occupations are pretty important, too.

But our system is based on checks and balances, as laid out in the constitution. All the treasonous crap Bush has been allowed to get away with has to be wiped out like Polio or the Plague.

Like Frank Zappa, I am also a Constitutional Fundamentalist. With a fully restored Constitution, we could have a government of the people once again.

-90% Jimmy

[NightWatcher]

8. that is a HUGE step towards fixing the problems of the Bush White House

k and r

[gordianot]

9. Reason number one to vote for Obama.

[jody]

10. Why stop at Bush's orders, just issue an order rescinding all and then selectively re-approve.

Executive order (United States)

NARA's Executive Orders

[chill_wind]

19. Even better yet!

I like it.

[williesgirl]

11. For anyone still on the fence, this should do it! rec'd

[frog92969]

40. You would think so.

Too many people just don't know what's happening.

[annie1]

119. still on the fence btwn Hil and O? Hil already said it.

[MissWaverly]

12. he has my vote and my campaign contributions

he's going to be the next president of the United States, folks, you heard it here
first.

[BootinUp]

13. Hillary said the same thing months ago. nt

[bigtree]

15. months and months ago

but, we digress

[dailykoff]

29. Was that before or after Bush endorsed her?

[bigtree]

55. No it was after Obama said there was no daylight between his position on Iraq and Bush's

[bluedog]

93. She said it in Oct.2007

Hillary Clinton blasted the Bush administration's expansion of executive power today, pledging to conduct a review of Bush's abuses if elected to the White House. She explained her general thoughts in a substantive interview with The Guardian's Michael Tomasky:


I think it is clear that the power grab undertaken by the Bush-Cheney administration has gone much further than any other president and has been sustained for longer. Other presidents, like Lincoln, have had to take on extraordinary powers but would later go to the Congress for either ratification or rejection. But when you take the view that they're not extraordinary powers, but they're inherent powers that reside in the office and therefore you have neither obligation to request permission nor to ask for ratification, we're in a new territory here. And I think that I'm gonna have to review everything they've done because I've been on the receiving end of that. There were a lot of actions which they took that were clearly beyond any power the Congress would have granted or that in my view that was inherent in the constitution. There were other actions they've taken which could have obtained congressional authorization but they deliberately chose not to pursue it as a matter of principle.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-melber/clinton-on-exe...

[annie1]

120. damn she's good.

[lumpy]

121. Obama has a tendency to parrot Clinton on practically every

issue.

[annie1]

133. Yup. NYT: Obama followed the Hillary model....

"He met with nearly one-third of the Senate, from both sides of the aisle, including his future rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, to learn about the institution and solicit advice on how to succeed. That shaped a strategy: work hard, tend to your constituents, and, above all, get along with others. He spent many weekends traveling across Illinois for town-hall-style meetings.

‘The Hillary model’
Mr. Obama’s advisers referred to it as “the Hillary model,” patterned after Mrs. Clinton’s approach when she joined the Senate in 2001. But while Mr. Obama expressed admiration for her at the time, he dissuaded reporters from making too close a comparison.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23540579/page/2/

[anonymous171]

21. GOBAMA!

This is great. Time to bring the constitution back from the dead.

[kentuck]

22. This is a winning message in many parts of the country...

especially out West and down South. These folks love to hear their politicians defend the Constitution.

[frog92969]

35. But a losing message

when it comes to corporate controlled media, polling and voting machine vendors, as well as every branch of government.

Any plans he has to return to the rule of law, I hope he keeps them under his hat.

[Olney Blue]

89. Your post actually made me sad- that talking about the "law" would

be something negative in our country. What has happened to us?

[frog92969]

113. It is sad

And just getting bu$h out of the Blight House won't fix it.
We need a President who respects laws, treaties and human life, that would be a good start anyway.

Sorry I brought you down, it pained me to say it.

[KittyWampus]

23. Outstanding!

[canadian_is_cold]

24. I would LOVE to see that happen n/t

[boston bean]

25. So

This is more double speak.

If he must know the ones he finds unconstitutional. Why does he always try to leave himself so much wiggle room.

I will review them. That means diddly squat!

[Maineman]

68. He is not an absolutist, social controller, or unilateralist

He is a cooperator and a listener, as opposed to being an arrogant know-it-all like Bush-Cheney. I fear Hillary is a bit more like Bush-Cheney. I also note that Obama's campaign is better organized. Why did Hillary not plan her campaign beyond Super Tuesday? Hmmm. Bush did not plan his Iraq campaign beyond the initial invasion.

[lumpy]

124. I'm furking disgusted with Obama using Clintons words/ ideas

as his own. This is political plagiarism.

[Mooney]

26. This is why I voted for him.

He gets it. He understands what's been lost.

[Maineman]

67. Me too

I have heard this before, and it is a big deal for me. Barack is an organizer and a leader. He does not need to act unilaterally. I am not so sure about Hillary.

[lumpy]

127. That's right, you heard it before from Hillary Clinton.

Obama has a good organization capable of stealing words from Clinton's mouth and depositing them in Obamas mouth.

[lumpy]

128. That's right, you heard it before from Hillary Clinton.

Obama has a good organization capable of stealing words from Clinton's mouth and depositing them in Obamas mouth.

[Pavlovs DiOgie]

27. It's been so long

that it's hard to imagine a president that follows the Constitution. Wow, this past 7 years has felt like an eternity.

[dailykoff]

28. That's music to my ears.

I think he means it too!

[Cha]

30. You know this is why

the bushits, limpbaughs and the clintons of the country do not want Obama near the white house. It's a powerful force he and his team are going up against but he's got a lot of free thinkers behind him.

[mcollier]

104. Obama's Got My Vote

He is a leader the likes we have not seen in a lifetime...

If the past 20+ years have taught us one thing, we need a true uniter. Not one who just claims to be, but on who is displaying an ability to unite people right before our eyes...

Vote for Barack Obama.

Thanks.

[lumpy]

131. I wouldn't call Obama anymore of a uniter than Clinton is.

Are you oblivious to the fact that Hillary Clinton has her fair share of supporters. Would be interesting to see if Obama could unite Congress. No president has been able to unite those bodies since FDR.

[hisownpetard]

31. That is music to my ears! Thank you, Senator Obama. Thank you.

[annie1]

109. Hillary said this in a debate months ago.

[hisownpetard]

125. She also said that McCain has crossed the threshhold to be Commander in Chief.

McCAIN - crazy, doddering, war-mongering, hot-tempered Bush-licking McCain.

Yeah, I'm gonna put a lot of credence in what she has to say...

[lumpy]

132. Doesn't make an iota of difference to the wide eyed Obama

idolers.

[slinkerwink]

32. Way to go, Obama!

[JanusAscending]

33. Now that's my Guy, and I'm so proud of him!!

Anyone think that Hillary will do as much?? I don't!!

[frog92969]

34. Now he's talking my issues !

Best thing I've heard all primary.
This was my hope when I voted for him.

[Cha]

36. This is it, Obama! This

is some of that change we're talkin' about!

[annie1]

122. Hillary already talked about this change in 2007, and 2008 before now...

i've heard her say it months ago and others here have as well. that's what we like about her. She's talking about things she will actually do.

[Cha]

126. hilarly has a Record of not changing.

hilary has enabled bush to keep the War On Iraq going. Keep your eyes closed and you will not see hilary's dirty little secrets or her dirty little campaign lies. Keep those fingers in your ears and you won't hear the lies hilary tells her hangers on.

[annie1]

130. how has hillary enabled the war to keep going in ways that obama hasn't?...

and who's got their fingers in their ears, this is the first time you're hearing obama talk about reviewing orders, he said it in January 2008.

[Cha]

136. hilary and the bushits got the war started

and now they need supplies but you knew that. hilary is a lying, cheating, mccain supporter who wants Obama to be her VP..but lies about him to the public..she's a dirty politician who will say anything and do nothing. And you still support her so that means you have no powers of observation..good luck with that.

[annie1]

138. i'd repeat the question but clearly you didn't understand it the first time. not surprising.

[Cha]

141. "There's just no hypocricy like Hilary Hypocricy"

And that goes for her clingons too.

[cliffordu]

37. I've been waiting....

For one of these candidates to say exactly those words.

Bravo -

We HAVE to get this man elected!!

[annie1]

110. Hillary already said it in a debate i think after IA, or right before.

[frog92969]

154. Alot of people must not have been listening.

Or like me, don't believe it.

[Neshanic]

38. I would think that would be a given, but then again...

[TreasonousBastard]

41. I would hope so. n/t

[donheld]

42. As it should be

Thanks Kpete

[CatnHat]

44. Maybe the press,

Hillary, and the republicans should review Obama. That's more like it.

[Skittles]

45. N I C E

[AzDar]

46. Well... there it 'tis.

[Oldenuff]

47. That is good to hear!

But I'd like to see him go even further.The Patriot Act,the Real ID Act,the Protect America Act,the new passport rules,those all need to be repealed as well.Has he taken a position on those abominations?I'll be honest,Obama was not my first choice in a candidate.On the other hand,Hillary was dead last in my choice as a candidate to support.I'm still inclined to say "feck it" and write in Kooch.

Or Kinky Freidman...or Wilie Nelson.

North American Union be damned!

[frog92969]

156. I think the gist is

if it's not constitutional, it won't fly.
That was my hope when I voted for him.

BTW - Kucinich was my 1st, Obama 5th, Clinton 8th.

[AntiFascist]

48. Excellent! Obama should definitely stress his constitutional law experience n/t

[glowing]

51. too bad while he's been in the senate he hasn't been a more boistorous

voice for all the power they signed away to Bush in the first place. seems more like, review, and pick and choose which one's will help him be king too.

[NoFederales]

53. FINALLY!!!!! A Candidate Spreaks That Which I Need To Hear. nt

NoFederales

[annie1]

118. Did you hear the Des Moines IA debate? it was said there by hillary and others...

this is not anything new.

[jonnyra]

54. This is exactly whats been missing

from all the election rhetoric...NO mention of the crimes committed y the Bush/Cheney crime family. And finally...FINALLY Obama brings it up and I must say he has just won my support. It will be interesting to see how fast Clinton responds with a similar statement.

[LostinVA]

66. Senator Clinton has already said it -- quite a while ago, actually

[Schema Thing]

84. Quote?

[Vinca]

57. After so many years of living under the thumb of an idiot,

won't it be refreshing to have a president with an operable brain who has not only read the Constitution, but taught it?

[Maureen1322]

63. It pisses me off

That whoever gets elected has to start by cleaning up the
mess this administration has made.

[randr]

69. It still pisses me off

that when Bill Clinton took office he never pursued the corruption of Bush the elder.
Had he pushed the investigations in place we may have avoided the divisiveness of the whole Clinton presidency as well as the entire Bush debacle.
I want to hear from both HRC and BHO what they plan to do to bring the crimials to justice.
America could use a year or more of cleansing.

[aasleka]

64. Rule of Law is my number one issue also, But why not go further?

Why not ask Congress for a law that would preclude any future executive orders based on the legality of the order reviewable for interpretation by the Courts? This would give a balance to the executive order bussiness that it currently does not have. There is a HUGE problem when Congress passes a law and the President signs an order stating that he is above the law.

[TheZug]

71. Which means not only will Bush documents be opened, but Clinton ones.

And the Bush/Clinton elite are desperate to keep this from happening.

[frog92969]

157. So desperate

that they're building up McCain!

[BearSquirrel2]

72. trashed until deemed sane ...

Yeah, he should have someone go through and trash everyone except those that sound remotely constitutional. I don't think many will survive.

[spanone]

74. K&R-about time someone spoke of signing statements

[jwirr]

77. That is definitely one of the things I have wanted to hear.

[annie1]

114. Hillary has said it several times.

[bowens43]

80. You can bet that if Hillary ever becomes president

she will continue to expand the powers of the presidency in the same way that bush has. We saw that even while first lady, she took a dim view of our Constitution and abused what little power she had. The FBI files for instance. The thought of Hillary have the tools that bush put in place is truly frightening. She has an obvious lust for power and no matter what she says, we all know that she will never give up anything, constitutional or not, if it increases that power.

[RestoreGore]

82. So why isn't he calling for accountability now ?...

And who gets to "deem" which are unconstitutional? He is part of this Congress that has already allowed them to take effect. How do you reverse that damage? Empty words from another Congressional enabler is all I see. And that goes for Clinton and McCain too. If you can't stand up to Bush in Congress, don't expect me to believe you will at any other time just because you say it to get votes.

[Glimmer of Hope]

83. Yes! He knows his stuff. They don't just appoint anyone president of Harvard Law Review.

[Rosemary2205]

85. Is this even logistically possible?

I would assume the "we lost the emails" boy king will buy out the masterlock aisle at Ace Hardware and fire up the shredders long before the next president moves in.

[Suzie57]

117. True but

If Bush could destroy all records of his foolish signing statements then they would no longer exist and the laws he took exception to would stand as passed by congress, so that would be good. i actually don't think he could but who knows what he might try.

[JCMach1]

88. Promise to proscecute him for every crime he has commited and you can have my vote Sen. Obama

[Barack_America]

95. Bush: "I trust my legacy to Hillary"

So, I'm guessing that means a 'no' on her scrutinizing his executive orders.

[frog92969]

158. That WAS an eye opener

Was it not?

[Usrename]

98. Absolutely.

I don't doubt it for a second.

[goldcanyonaz]

99. Obama is once again following Clinton's lead. She said this months ago.

[annie1]

108. i remember this too, do you have the quote? i can't believe obamanots are falling for this...

like he's the first person to say this. just wow.

[alteredstate]

101. Kicked!

[Hekate]

102. How I wish I had been there to hear that. I have so longed for the next Prez to start from Day One--

--and have hoped that from the day after his or her election that he or she would have people dedicated to the task of ferreting out every damn one of Bush's executive orders and signing statements with the intent of overturning them.

Bush started on his first day in the Oval Office. So should our Democratic president, because it will be like shoveling out the Augean Stables.

Hekate

[The Backlash Cometh]

103. kick

[annie1]

106. Hillary said this in a debate months ago.

[Lucinda]

111. She speaks about it in townhalls too.

[90-percent]

112. Obama's lawyering creds

If he is indeed a Constitutional Scholar that should be plastered over every square inch of campaign lit he is.

Using the name; Barack "Constitutional Law Professor" Obama, would give him a 20 point kick in the polls all over the country.

I want my President to be an expert on the Constitution. I'm tired of eight years of knowing more about the Constitution than my President does!

-90% Jimmy

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

116. Also, he was a Civil Rights Attorney

He was invited to do Corporate law (like Hillary) but he chose to work for a Civil Law firm.

He worked with Project Vote as well, which is another group that protects civil rights.

[frog92969]

159. Be careful

with the P word.

I made that mistake upthread and it started a brawl.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

115. Obama taught Constitutional Law for 10 years,

he will know how to restore it.

kicked, and RECOMMENDED.

[Tom Rinaldo]

123. Hillary Clinton's reply to question asked her at National Town Hall meeting

prior to the March 4th primaries, addressed this. She was asked what she would do the very first day she was in office as President. The first answer Hillary gave was that she would take the Constitution out of Cold Storage. She then said she would reverse many of George W. Bush's exectutive orders. That was the first time I heard either candidate discuss overturning Bush's executive orders. She followed that by saying she would convene her military and security advisors to begin implementing withdrawal from Iraq.

[berni_mccoy]

139. She's already VOTED to SUPPORT BUSH Time and Time again. And she's in Bed with the Saudis/Dubai

[GMFORD]

151. Good for her.

I'm glad to see both our candidates realize how important this is.

[gulliver]

129. Well done. Signing statements too, though.

Every bill Bush used a signing statement on should be cleansed. Maybe just write one bill that makes signing statements null and void.

[RainDog]

140. a question for ppl here

when did Hillary start the chant, "Yes We Will."

I thought the "Yes We Can" was Obama's thing. Did I miss it before in her campaigns (before Ohio, that is).

[annie1]

144. No. "Yes we can" was the Farm Workers Union thing, their slogan...

then he 'borrowed it', then after a lot of back and forth btwn obama and hil camp talking about the difference btwn talk and action people started say 'yes she *will*' to illustrate a difference. That was about 4 weeks ago maybe. i could be off by a week or 2.

[RainDog]

155. thanks so much! n/t

[Qutzupalotl]

142. Sometimes it takes a constitutional law scholar to clean up after a Bush.

[pattmarty]

145. What he (or Hillary) should be saying is not re-view, but RE-SCIND.

[democrank]

149. But...wait...

What if we nominate someone who really understands the Constitution? Couldn`t that be problematic?

[snappyturtle]

162. Wow! This is great! Sen. Obama, soon our nominee for President

of the United States,(I just HAD to write that once)will need a team of people to clear up the executive order over-reach! Wonder if he'll look into the dreaded Presidential directives too?