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Doctor_J

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21. He's worried about the voters' "meh" attitude in the midterms

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Wed Mar 12, 2014, 08:45 PM

Mar 2014

and when info like this comes out, he has every right to worry.

c. Aug 2010, a caller was on with Hartmann. The caller ID'd himself as being mid-30's Republican who had voted for Obama in 2008 because (paraphrasing), "it makes me sick that my (Republican) party conducts and condones torture. I voted for the president because he said he would end it". There is one of those people who voted (D) in 2008 who didn't in 2010.

Sorry folks, but as the leader of the party and of the US, he's been pretty much of a disaster.

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Obama: White House won't wade into CIA torture report dispute at this point [View all] dipsydoodle Mar 2014 OP

I guess those Dem Senators just don't understand Jackpine Radical Mar 2014 #1

Remember, to be a powerful President, you must feign utter powerlessness in the face of villager Mar 2014 #26

Of course he won't montanacowboy Mar 2014 #2

How can you attack our President so irresponsibly? Dem4ever27 Mar 2014 #5

Hello. bigwillq Mar 2014 #7

Beneath him to uphold the rule of law? JoeyT Mar 2014 #9

Like it was beneath him to put thieving banksters in jail? jtuck004 Mar 2014 #14

I have a feeling you are not joking. There is a huge different between "skewer[ing]" a former rhett o rick Mar 2014 #22

I second that feeling. n/t crim son Mar 2014 #30

There's the triangulating Obama I know I wish didn't speak. Thanks for (not) reigning in another Nanjing to Seoul Mar 2014 #3

Says their lawyers. Fearless Mar 2014 #4

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, that he would try to finesse this problem tularetom Mar 2014 #6

Holy #%^* MannyGoldstein Mar 2014 #8

In other words, "please let them resolve this themselves cause I sure don't want to be involved!" riderinthestorm Mar 2014 #10

Pretty much. 840high Mar 2014 #11

Looks as if Maureen Dowd was right. nt grasswire Mar 2014 #12

Courageous stand 1000words Mar 2014 #13

He wont get involved because he told us to look forward frwrfpos Mar 2014 #15

Question might be dipsydoodle Mar 2014 #16

I see what he did there. OnyxCollie Mar 2014 #17

Undermining torture investigations is how Obama rolls. OnyxCollie Mar 2014 #18

Only acting under orders is so WW2 dipsydoodle Mar 2014 #19

"Change" you can beLIEve in, bay-bee! blkmusclmachine Mar 2014 #20

He's worried about the voters' "meh" attitude in the midterms Doctor_J Mar 2014 #21

This message was self-deleted by its author Autumn Mar 2014 #23

K & R !!! WillyT Mar 2014 #24

Wouldn't be prudent. jsr Mar 2014 #25

Well, now we know where he stands Kelvin Mace Mar 2014 #27

The problem seems to me that Obama is ignoring the law for purely political reasons Fortinbras Armstrong Mar 2014 #28

"Wading into it" is his JOB. n/t Psephos Mar 2014 #29