The Obama Presidency

[Yoshi]

An increase in executive power is directly related to overreaching federal governing.

While I don't disagree, Congress is just as capable of the power grab from the states.

[Bojack]

I'm not as picky about the balance of power between the branches of the federal government as I am about the increasing power the feds have over the states. That scares the shit out of me. And I am well aware that Obama is only following Bush's and Clinton's lead there.

This has long been coming since the Civil war ended. Once states lost the right to say "Screw you guys... I'm going home." the feds effectively toasted the legitimacy of states rights.

[Fe 26]

maybe they need to stop being faggits?

[Thief Silver]

They should stop being faggots.

[SpoDaddy]

Class warfare is played out Bojack.

[Space Pirate Roberts]

States' rights were done the moment people stopped seeing themselves as Virginians and Pennsylvanians and Rhode Islanders rather than as Americans. The fact that they once did is the whole reason it was ever an issue to begin with.

So anyway...



I think Hitch may well be right here. Thing is, I'm not sure whether to be delighted we've got a freethinker in the White House, or furious that he insists on hiding it (understandable as that may be politically).

[K3V]

It'd be political suicide to admit to a lack of belief in the Magical Man.

[Space Pirate Roberts]

During the campaign, sure. But he's already won the highest office in the land - he could "come out" now, and then have four years to show the other side we're not baby-eating monsters, thereby tearing down the same barrier for those who share his beliefs as he already has for those who share his color.

Wishful thinking, I know.

[Yoshi]

A President should try to appoint Jesus to a cabinet post so that Congress has to deal with the awkwardness of saying that he's not an American citizen or that it's just a story.

[bbobb]

A President should try to appoint Jesus to a cabinet post so that Congress has to deal with the awkwardness of saying that he's not an American citizen or that it's just a story.

Hey, look at this, something both Yoshi and I agree on in a political thread.