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B. Hussein Obama is merely one of one-hundred senators. He has no more power than the other 99.
Posted on December 2, 2008 10:30 PM
He's not a senator anymore.
Posted on December 3, 2008 12:28 AM
He not president yet! Never will be in charge! That Nancy job! Do not believe it, watch her actions!
Posted on December 3, 2008 1:39 AM
Doug J, I know you're a big Nancy fan, but no one outside San Francisco elected her. Obama won the big job, and he's already getting down to business. I'll have many disagreements with his policies, but I am impressed with his transition so far.
Meanwhile, Bush isn't providing any leadership anymore.
jaycee, if Obama doesn't have any power, why are all the governors running to him to pitch for federal money? He's already the Decider.
Posted on December 3, 2008 9:29 AM
who's our real president right now?
Bush?
Or Obama?* Doug
Who cares! Bush has been proven a failure so you have Obama and he is already giving us the same ole establishment crowd to save the day or country.......Some change! What you are seeing is the rerangements of the deck chairs on Titanic...
Posted on December 3, 2008 11:03 AM
Doug, B. Hussein Obama can write no checks, sign no legislation, and author no Executive Order until he's sworn in as president.
If, as Andrew alluded, he has legally resigned his Senate seat, then he's just "in between government checks" at the moment.
Posted on December 3, 2008 4:51 PM
I understand that. But if he asks Congress to do something, and it does, that's a lot of power. If he makes political deals with the assurance they will be carried out a couple of months from now, he is exercising power.
The Godfather did not have to personally whack anyone to make people fear him.
Posted on December 3, 2008 4:56 PM
Remember jaycee, Dick Cheney is legally enumerated no power unless a Senate vote is a tie or Bush is incapacitated, but boy has he exercised a lot of power over the past eight years.
Posted on December 3, 2008 5:06 PM
Doug, Obama has no statutory or legislated authority or power. If people want to suck up to him in advance of the power he WILL have in the future, well, that's another thing entirely.
Posted on December 3, 2008 9:40 PM
Again, jaycee, I understand. But power is the ability to exert your will. Obama is there already.
Posted on December 3, 2008 10:11 PM