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28. You are saying that "a veto" by Obama "would have been a waste of time since it had

Thu Aug 23, 2012, 07:11 AM

Aug 2012

more than enough votes to be overridden"?

You do realize, don't you, that Obama was a Senator at the time that the vote was taken to give immunity for the telecoms that spied upon all of us for the Bush Administration?

And you must realize that Senators do not have veto power. The President does. Bush II was the President at the time, not Obama.

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