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1StrongBlackMan

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1. I think ...

Reply to w8liftinglady (Original post)

Tue Apr 3, 2012, 11:45 AM

Apr 2012

The writer of this piece is doing what conservatives do ... taking an out of context snippet of what was actually said; assigning it a contextual value, completely unrelated to the statements original context.

In this case, the "unprecedented" SCOTUS action that President Obama was speaking of was not the act of Judicial Review; but rather, using Judicial Review to overturn a democratically enacted law that is supported by 75+ years of precedent.

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Sigh - on the DMN Opinion blog" Obama must be governing under someone else's Constitution " [View all] w8liftinglady Apr 2012 OP

I think ... 1StrongBlackMan Apr 2012 #1