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In reply to the discussion: Bipartisan Resolution to Compel White House to Release Legal Justification for Drone Strikes [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)and you do remember that Lincoln (OH MY GOD) was a republican don't you?
and he only is the #1 president of all time in everybody's lists.
Not everything he did was pretty either.
and that CONGRESS fully voted after 9-11 to give the president the power for the war on terrorism. (another inconvienet truth forgotten.)
Wish Obama didn't have to deal with the congress that the PEOPLE poll at 12% popularity.
And if you worry about a future bad president, again, vote for one that isn't in 2016 2020 and 2024 and 2028 and 2032.
To do that, one needs to vote for a candidate (like Hillary) who CAN WIN in the first place, not some one issue idealogue that might be a great person (like Eugene McCarthy or George McGovern) but who can't win, directly leading to a bad President like W, 41, IKE, Reagan,
who then would worry one.
It is amazing how history repeated when Democrats tossed LBJ Carter and Clinton into the river in 1968 1980 and 2000 being holier than thou. Over an issue that directly lead that issue to become 100 times worse by being holier than thou.
Gets me so annoyed because GMAFB, Bobby would have been alive without McCarthy upsurping LBJ to run and win in 1972 had LBJ been allowed to defeat Nixon in 1968 as he would have.
And without Nader and the jettising of Bill Clinton from public view in 2000 to run a "pure" campaign forgetting that Bill was so popular he would have won a 3rd term could he have run, again forgot history and all 3 of those races showed what happens
As Dr.Dyer so famously said, Don't sweat the small stuff, because it's all just small stuff.
and think of the long term prize.
Reagan, Bush, Bush, Bush won't get that.
Stop trying to toss Obama out by backing something a fraud like Ron Paul is wanting.
RON PAUL IS NOT ON OUR SIDE. There is a reason Ron Paul is not a democrat. 90% of our party doesn't even have a right to freedom in Ron Paul's eyes.
And remember, Ron Paul did NOT sign Kucinich's impeach W bill. He mumbled some stupid words like it wouldn't pass (earth to Ron- NOTHING you ever supported ever passed).
He is them. Just the court jester on their side is his role. If he ever really troubled the Bush people, they would have gave a million dollars in ads to some other canddiate to defeat him all those other elections. He is just a playa for them, deep on the bench so to say.
and btw-when thinking of the constitution, ahem, everybody claims to use Bobby Kennedy as a great example of what a Democrat should be.
I loved him too. I remember exactly where I was when I heard over my transister radio the announcement that he did.
But I also remember he famously wiretapped Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for many years.
OOOPS.
Not everything is tidy and pretty. And things do need to be remembered that it all has played before.
and 10% of something is better than 100% of nothing.
We already have gotten a good 10% or more of something from our great current President.
and the above is just trying to upsurp President Obama's constitutional powers, which he has not abused, an inconvienient truth some are trying to obscure or forget.
IMHO of course.
and yes, everybody including me has an angle.