Right after the election just a few weeks ago the subject of gun control came up ("Can we talk about real issues now?"), and the response in the media was "Now's not the time to talk about gun control - Now's the time to talk about Republicans being shocked that Romney lost".
It's never going to be time for these people to talk about gun control.
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When you "look forward, not back".
When you refuse to impeach BushCheney because "Republicans will say it's just because they impeached Clinton".
When you refuse to prosecute neocons who lied to Congress so that they could attack Iraq.
When you don't uphold the laws of the land, when you don't drive discredited offenders out of the halls of power, they return to the public stage, only to raise the ante on the destruction they're willing to do to their opponents.
You can't go forward unless and until you've looked back, assessed and corrected what went wrong.
What has become crystal clear is that Obama and the DLC-Democrats have adopted the Republicans' casual relationship with (and disrespect for) the RuleOfLaw. Preserving the rule of law underpins how the US has been the most successful, longest running democracy in world history.
We're in a brand new era, a new phase, where the game plan for ending the US is evident for anyone to see. And it begins and ends with the RuleofLaw. By refusing to investigate and prosecute Bush, by "looking forward, not back", Obama has broken the covenant that the American people have with their government.
BushCo broke federal US laws; the RuleOfLaw applies to all Americans, elected officials, too. Elected officials especially.
The UnitedStates works, or it did, because of a covenant WeThePeople make with our government. We agree to a democratic republic, where other people make the laws under which we agree to abide (and that'll be applied to everyone), as long as we get to choose who those people are who'll be making the laws. It's under those conditions that we consent to be governed.
When we no longer trust in the process, when we no longer trust that the selection process by which our elected representatives is fair and accurate, or that the laws don't apply equally to all, then all bets are off. And no government can stand once that happens.
For a president of the UnitedStates not to equally apply the law to all people, presidents, too, means that the grand experiment is over.
Not prosecuting BushCo is destroying the country. It's allowing precedents to stand, that'll only mean future presidents will build upon those past precedents set by Bush. From those precedents spring aberration -- Obama's already built upon Bush's claims of 'UnitaryExecutive', asserting that presidents have the right to kill American citizens with no due process, no oversight, and no legislative or judicial review. Obama's already imposed a policy of 'indefinite preventive detention', again, imprisoning anyone, anywhere, anytime, forever, if a president chooses, with NO DUE PROCESS, no oversight.
How any Democrat defends that is beyond my understanding.
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Kerry is the only choice?
R U SERIOUS???!!
You miss the point of my comment, that Obama's most ardent supporters keep coming up with excuses for his continuing to operate against the best interests of the 99% with this idea that there are no alternatives so Obama is stuck.
Incidentally, Kerry wants to be the Secretary of State and with Rice out, it appears likely that his wish will come true.
FYI: Obama's not afraid of Scott Brown in the Senate, and did what he could to help Brown retain his Senate seat over any Democratic challenger. Whether it was in 2010 when he did nothing to help Martha Coakley or in 2012 when Obama had a signing ceremony of a bill that Brown had co-authored, with Brown front and center in the White House, Obama has gone out of his way to keep from having a super majority for Democrats in the Senate.
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This is a matter of educating the public that torture doesn't work if its purpose is to get good intelligence.
In a backwards sort of way, this poll is the result of Obama's not prosecuting CIA torturers (torture is against the law) and letting them get away with destroying the evidence of their crimes.
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So Obama's and Democrats' response, as usual, is to cave. We're already being primed for it, with stories that "both sides can go to their base and say 'We tried and they didn't budge so now it's time for compromise".
Obama will then make cuts to social programs and the big ticket items like military spending will remain safe. The chairman of the joint chiefs will continue to live like a billionaire.
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We're not talking about your grandmother or your daughter or how you raised her. We're also not talking about sounds, but NOISE.
Not all sound is noise, but, in general, it's subjective. The sounds of children playing can be music to some people's ears and like nails on a chalkboard to others. It's certainly not the same as a dog continually barking or a car alarm sounding.
If the sounds you and yours are making are disturbing others inside their homes, you're guilty of noise pollution, and noise kills. According to the World Health Organization, excessive noise ranks second only to air pollution as a leading environmental cause of health problems among Western Europeans.
Here's a good general measure for determining when you're too loud: If the sounds you're making can be heard 10 feet past your property line.
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He clearly wasn't rational at all and caused so much anger and pain to the family.
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