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Showing Original Post only (View all)I'm starting a countdown on how long it takes for the DOJ and Admin to do something on Tamir Rice. [View all]
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I'm a long time Obama supporter (precinct captain in '07/'08 and phone banker/ neighborhood canvassing/voter registration in '11/'12) but come on already, something proactive has to be done on all these police shootings of innocent, unarmed African Americans.
For God's sake, we have a black, democratic president and nothing seems to get done, and in most cases, even addressed. It's like there's almost always just silence.
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I'm starting a countdown on how long it takes for the DOJ and Admin to do something on Tamir Rice. [View all]
brush
Dec 2015
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It's not, IMO, naive to expect the president to use his bully pulpit, and his DOJ . . .
brush
Dec 2015
#5
Okay, the repugs will do what they do — obstruct — therefore nothing can or should be done?
brush
Dec 2015
#20
I certainly didn't say, nor expect the president alone to fix the impunity problem of killer cops
brush
Dec 2015
#26
He has done the rallying. And the 50+% of Americans that think that he's a Kenyan born socialist
Number23
Dec 2015
#37
Well congratulations you've succeeded in getting anti-Obama people in the AA Group..
Cha
Dec 2015
#40
Perhaps you don't get it. I'm a big Ohama fan who worked hard on both of his campaigns
brush
Dec 2015
#47
How could the president "lobby" Congress on this? And especially THIS Congress??
Number23
Dec 2015
#14
The bully pulpit is a tool the president can use to build awareness and consensus . . .
brush
Dec 2015
#17
The "bully pulpit" can only do so much. The president has gone on television after every single
Number23
Dec 2015
#36
President Obama has used his Bully Pulpit.. I don't think you're listening .. you and the others
Cha
Dec 2015
#41
Sorry, I trust President Obama has the heart and the intelligence to be doing all that is humanly
Cha
Dec 2015
#49
Here's at least one article on why "Why the Feds Can’t Charge Darren Wilson" .. it just wasn't
Cha
Dec 2015
#12
Exactly, kwassa.. and there's this.. "Why It’s Impossible to Indict a Cop" "Why the Feds Can’t
Cha
Dec 2015
#11
You can break a guys neck in Baltimore and shoot a 12 y/o as the cruiser stops.
rusty quoin
Dec 2015
#6
There's also "Why the Feds Can’t Charge Darren Wilson" and "Why It’s Impossible to Indict a Cop"
Cha
Dec 2015
#10
Exactly! This is my point. Make some noise about this to rally the public and influence Congress
brush
Dec 2015
#18
And all of this you posted is why the president should use his bully pulpit to rally the public . .
brush
Dec 2015
#19
Did you misunderstand my last sentence? Perhaps I needed to use the sarcasm gif . . .
brush
Dec 2015
#31
No, what I posted are the facts of why the law is the way it is.. President Obama has used his
Cha
Dec 2015
#38
Get back to me when you learn the law that prevents them from doing a damn thing about it.
Cha
Dec 2015
#44
Figures.. you don't miss an opportunity to diss President Obama in the AA Group and you can't
Cha
Dec 2015
#48
Please backup your claim that DOJ has no legal authority to investigate. Dissing me is not ...
Scuba
Dec 2015
#51
You came into the AA Group and Dissed the President without even knowing the laws.. Shocking.
Cha
Dec 2015
#52
Don't be lazy.. no one is going to do your work for you. Quit insisting I do it. I'm not taking
Cha
Dec 2015
#54
It's not MY work to back up YOUR claim. C'mon, either back it up or admit you were just ...
Scuba
Dec 2015
#55
So don't do your own research. you obviously don't care enough about it. If I didn't know something
Cha
Dec 2015
#57