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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 12:54 AM Original message |
Poll question: Should Obama have intervened in the Troy Davis case? |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 12:57 AM Response to Original message |
1. Even if he couldn't have stopped the execution |
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Fruittree (488 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 04:53 AM Response to Reply #1 |
17. But what was right? |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 12:58 AM Response to Original message |
2. He's not the King. This was a state issue and the state will have to bear |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 01:00 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Damn, there goes the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Emancipation Proclamation for that matter |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 01:10 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Neither of which was accomplished in a five hour period. |
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geek tragedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 08:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
42. Neither of which gives him the right to interfere with |
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Webster Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 01:51 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. He has no problem sending goons to CA to steal pot from patients. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 02:01 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. You're talking apples and oranges. |
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Webster Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 02:12 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Not enough points for Canada. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 02:55 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Fight the good fight--keeps you young at heart. NT |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 04:52 PM Response to Reply #2 |
31. So if the attorney general gets a state level conviction of Lloyd Blankfein or some other Goldman |
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EffieBlack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 05:12 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. If a state attorney general gets a conviction, the President cannot pardon them |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 11:11 PM Response to Reply #31 |
44. Not if the case does not touch the Federal government in any way. |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 01:00 AM Response to Original message |
4. No. Obama had no jurisdiction. |
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NaturalHigh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 01:09 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Hard to believe how many people can't (or won't) grasp that concept. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 01:11 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. If there's blame to be assigned, he's a handy scapegoat for some. |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 01:20 AM Response to Original message |
8. No. |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 01:22 AM Response to Original message |
9. There are THREE branches of government. |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 01:24 AM Response to Original message |
10. The only thing that may have been in Pres Obama's power |
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Prism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 02:25 AM Response to Original message |
14. How would he have intervened? |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 03:05 AM Response to Original message |
16. Other: It would have been stupid politically for him to weigh in one way or the other, |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 04:50 PM Response to Reply #16 |
29. that's the best response |
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Azathoth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 05:05 AM Response to Original message |
18. How? n/t |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 05:14 AM Response to Original message |
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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 05:34 AM Response to Original message |
20. Of course not. |
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Tarheel_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 09:25 AM Response to Original message |
21. Probably not the result you were looking for, huh? |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 11:05 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Deleted message |
EffieBlack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 11:07 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. What do you do personally to fight the death penalty? |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 11:12 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I haven't done enough yet...and want to get more involved. |
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Tarheel_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 11:46 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. Your outlandish equivalency is duly noted. The problem with DU's keyboard commandoes... |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 02:04 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. +1 n/t |
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BklnDem75 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 04:54 PM Response to Reply #26 |
32. +1000 |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-23-11 02:44 AM Response to Reply #26 |
48. +Amen. n/t |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 04:51 PM Response to Reply #21 |
30. actually, it wasn't a push poll. I wondered what people thought and about the mechanics of it |
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Tarheel_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 05:04 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Whatever you say. |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
25. It would have been nice, but there was nothing he could have really done |
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Phx_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
27. It's a legal issue. The highest court in the land made the final decision. |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
35. I voted No. |
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craigmatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 05:59 PM Response to Original message |
36. He should've commuted his sentence to life. What else is a democrat for other than protecting the |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 07:41 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. No he could NOT have. |
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craigmatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 08:04 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Bull he's president and has the power to pardon and commute any sentences. |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 08:06 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. No, he does not. |
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craigmatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-23-11 07:49 PM Response to Reply #40 |
49. There's always neccessary and proper and in this case I think it would've made an interesting |
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geek tragedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 08:46 PM Response to Reply #39 |
43. You are ignorant on this point of law. nt |
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craigmatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-23-11 07:50 PM Response to Reply #43 |
50. Maybe. I wouldn't deny that it's been at least a year since I picked up the constitution. |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
37. Absolutely, right after he tore up the Constitution, dissolved |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-23-11 02:40 AM Response to Reply #37 |
47. + Infinity. |
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geek tragedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-22-11 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
41. Read a book. He didn't have the legal power to intervene. |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-23-11 12:06 AM Response to Original message |
45. Other: How could he within the law? |
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Ter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-23-11 12:29 AM Response to Original message |
46. Pat Buchanan said if he were president in 2005... |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-23-11 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
51. Ridiculous OP poll |
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RichGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-11 01:21 AM Response to Original message |
52. Yeah right.... |
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