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In reply to the discussion: Obama didn't stop the war on Syrians, WE DID. By we, I mean the peace advocates on this board, and [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)add in the reality that now we all know for a fact that Obama really and truly has the ability to gather his wits and make the Oval Office into a bully pulpit. If he can do this for the emergency of sarin gas in Syria, then some Loyalist Dems might have to question why he cant bring himself to do this with the matter of the budget sequestering.
Why is only the military functions and military bluster of this country of concern to him?
Remember how he distanced himself from the discussion about the public option, the summer of 2009? He said he COULD NOT utilize the bully pulpit, as Congress was there and could handle the Health Insurance Reform efforts. And that the Constitution made him powerless to start up a discussion.
I live in a county in Northern Calif., where our school budget has been slashed from over 16 million some three years ago, to less than ten million. Schwartzennegger, a Republican, did not want these budget cuts to materialize. Instead, when governor, he approached the Federal government for a loan. Geithner denied it, saying the deficit could not handle such. Yet over the next ten months, Geithner did not seem to mind the nation spending some 255 BILLIONS of dollars on modernizing an already over-equipped military, propping up the totalitarian surveillance state, and sending 55 BILLIONs of dollars of weaponry off to Israel and to Saudi Arabia.
The lack of educational resources for American kids is far more scarey to me than what is happening in a distant place. Eventually these kids will be adults out there voting, and trying to find work. To my way of thinking, the military leadership Obama is trying to provide is not half as needed as responsibility for our domestic affairs.