EdBowie
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The irony is that the extreme partisan rhetoric makes it harder to hold someone like Obama accountable for killing American citizens without trial, and so forth, because the discourse is polluted with so much polemic verbage. quote:
ORIGINAL: Tkman117 There are some things that Obama has done that I would agree with, and other things I don't (drone strikes for example.) He is not a perfect leader, hell Harper up here in canada is no saint, and they say he's more liberal than the liberal president of the USA. The point is, leaders do things that the people agree with and don't agree with. But when it comes to your do nothing congress, I don't blame your president for trying to bypass them, nothing is getting done and he's trying to fix that. Sure it's not a perfect process, but it's a last effort measure when all else has failed. And caving into republican pressure is hardly something to consider when they shut down your government a while back, I mean whenever I tried to explain what was happening and why the Republicans were shutting down the government, everyone said "that sounds like terrorism," because they were essentially holding the government hostage. So is it really so bad to go behind the backs of "attempted terrorists" in order to get something done?
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