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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 02:27 PM Original message |
How much power does Pres Obama have? And 3 other questions... |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
1. Not as much as people think he does, but more than he should. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 02:33 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. "I don't think the issue is how much, but how they use that power." |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 05:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
26. I MADE A MISTAKE and too late to edit, SHOULD have written just President, not Obama |
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branders seine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
3. If one listens to the apologists here, he has no power. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 02:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. 2nd answer.You do not answer but c/o other Duers. Do you have an answer for me beyond that? |
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branders seine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 03:02 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. read the Constitution. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 03:44 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. And, in your opinion, how much power does the Constitution give them in reality? |
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branders seine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 03:53 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Since Reagan, almost dictatorial powers |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 03:58 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. So Pres has dictatorial powers and Congress none? |
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branders seine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 04:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Nixon attempted to create an Imperial Presidency. He eroded some Congressional powers. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 04:01 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. How much power does congress have? How much should they have? |
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branders seine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 04:14 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. They should reassert their Consitutional authority. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 04:23 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Indeed they should. Checks and balances are there for a reason. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 05:11 PM Response to Reply #9 |
25. I MADE A MISTAKE and too late to edit, SHOULD have written just President, not Obama |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 03:50 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. I think you have hit a nerve! |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 03:54 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. No that's false |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
5. The veto gives him/her lots of power. |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
12. The President can threaten to withhold funds from states of recalicitrant legislators, |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
14. Hard to tell. He never put it to the test. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
16. In the Constitution, there was supposed to be checks and balances |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
19. Barely a groatsworth. |
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JFN1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
20. How much power does MONEY have? |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 04:56 PM Response to Original message |
21. Should be equal balance of power |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 05:05 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Because Congress is multiple people who may check/balance each other? |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 05:07 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. More direct representation. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 05:09 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I agree with that. There is a reason we have layers of gvt |
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