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To: AppyPappy
I agree with the earlier poster who posits that 'effect' is used correctly in the original statement. It means 'to implement' or put into action. However the changes affect Us in a mostly negative fashion.

But however you diagram the sentence, Obama seems to be blissfully unaware of the fact that he can't do what he's doing to cram this crap down our necks...

I wish he'd realize it the same way the coyote recognizes he's just run off the edge of the cliff and is immediately subjected to the force of gravity.

24 posted on 06/20/2014 1:41:24 PM PDT by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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To: DJ Frisat; nickcarraway; Peter W. Kessler; AppyPappy; jsanders2001; irishjuggler; F15Eagle; ...
However the changes affect Us in a mostly negative fashion.

He can effect CHANGE willy-nilly and HOPE that it "works" the way it is intended. It never works that way but it can inflict lasting — if not permanent — damage and can negatively affect the society and hundreds of millions of people.

And he was quite open from the beginning that this was the desired effect of his HOPE and CHANGE campaign and policies - "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America."

Kanye ("You can't effect change from inside the White House like that ... you gotta have the money.") is wrong on several levels here because he doesn't seem to understand (or willing to accept) that any determined President — especially when having a majority or split Congress — has almost unlimited amount of taxpayers' money at his disposal, and — particularly when having major / pop media and educational institutions in his pocket — immense power to effect a number of social and structural changes with long lasting societal effects.

33 posted on 06/20/2014 9:50:13 PM PDT by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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