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global1

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Mon Sep 9, 2013, 04:54 PM Sep 2013

Is There Anything The President Can Say That Will Change Your Position On The Syria Strike?...... [View all]

This great push by PBO to sway public opinion puzzles me. The American Public basically has weighed in on this issue over the last week or so. Our Congressional Representatives in both the House and Senate have been barraged by calls and contacts and the opinion seems to be overwhelmingly against this strike.

The President is doing a number of interviews tonight and tomorrow he will address the nation and coincidentally the vote in the Senate will come on the anniversary of 9/11 - one day after his address to the nation. I don't think that they are giving time enough for the American People to change their minds and re-call their Senators and Congressmen.

This seems all window dressing for a decision that is already made.

I really don't know if there is anything the President can say that will change public opinion. So why all this effort?

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