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markpkessinger

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7. In any case, I never called him an authoritarian dictator . . .

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Reply #5)

Fri Aug 23, 2013, 05:06 PM

Aug 2013

. . . so you're setting up a straw man here. My chief concern with respect to his expansion of executive power has more to do with what some future president might do with that power.

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Bloomberg: Why Is Obama Caving on Tobacco? [View all] markpkessinger Aug 2013 OP

probably because it's more important to keep throwing cancer grannies in jail for growing pot. Warren DeMontague Aug 2013 #1

Well, now, you have a point there! markpkessinger Aug 2013 #3

PttP: Why Does Obama Cave on Everything? n/t PowerToThePeople Aug 2013 #2

Wait...I'm confused Cali_Democrat Aug 2013 #5

So I gather you're all for the TPP, right? n/t markpkessinger Aug 2013 #6

In any case, I never called him an authoritarian dictator . . . markpkessinger Aug 2013 #7

You have a valid point. He does want to drop the hammer on those releasing information to the public PowerToThePeople Aug 2013 #8

because we don't have a filibuster-proof majority Enrique Aug 2013 #4

Right . . . markpkessinger Aug 2013 #9

Michael Bloomberg is a Aerows Aug 2013 #10

This message was self-deleted by its author markpkessinger Aug 2013 #11