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[Tamas]

While reading a review of a history of the FBI I learned that Obama issued a signing statement with the Indefinite Detention of American Citizens Act.

HOPE. CHANGE. YES WE CAN!

[Ed Anger]

I'd call that a "plus" in my voting checklist.

[Admiral Yi]

I've got no issue with Obama's signing statement.  My beef is with the tribalists who offered up Bush's signing statements as proof that he was the antichrist.

[Ed Anger]

Bush doing it was a "double plus plus" in my voting ledger.

[Admiral Yi]

So four pluses total?

[Ed Anger]

So four pluses total?

Yeah. Considering how many minuses Al Bore and John Longface had, one plus would carry the day.

[The Larch]

[Grey Fox]

Considering it was last year, he probably does.

[Malthus]

Considering it was last year, he probably does.

Though he probably doesn't *want* to remember the little kid at the end of the line-up. 

[mongers]

My new $7 cellphone is really neat, it's got a radio and also works as a torch and radio alarm clock.  :gasp:

[Valmy]

I've got no issue with Obama's signing statement.  My beef is with the tribalists who offered up Bush's signing statements as proof that he was the antichrist.

What?  People cannot have a problem with what they regard as violations of the Constitution?

[Eddie Teach]

Considering it was last year, he probably does.

Though he probably doesn't *want* to remember the little kid at the end of the line-up. 

Presumably not his, the sperm wouldn't survive the digestive fluids.

[MadImmortalMan]

Did they do it together? 

[Admiral Yi]

What?  People cannot have a problem with what they regard as violations of the Constitution?

Are you really not getting it?

Of course they can a problem with that.  That's the whole point.  The people who claimed they have a problem with what they regard as violations of the Constitution when Bush was doing it all of a sudden don't seem to have as much of a problem with what they regard as violations of the Constitution.

[sbr]

What?  People cannot have a problem with what they regard as violations of the Constitution?

Are you really not getting it?

Of course they can a problem with that.  That's the whole point.  The people who claimed they have a problem with what they regard as violations of the Constitution when Bush was doing it all of a sudden don't seem to have as much of a problem with what they regard as violations of the Constitution.

Bad people doing bad things is reprehensible.

Good people doing bad things, for the good of everyone, is usually excusable.