Posted on 11/24/2014 2:27:52 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Stay wide awake in the coming weeks. This is a historic moment when all of the divisions, misunderstandings and hatreds of President Obamas time in office have come to a head. We are in a different place than we were. We are also in a place we were bound to get to eventually.
Obamas decision to back away from our governments policy of ripping apart the families of undocumented immigrants has called forth utterly contradictory responses from Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and progressives. It should now be clear that the two sides dont see the facts, the law or history in the same way.
For the six years since Obamas election to the presidency, the Republican right has been on offense, continually blurring those distinctions between the factual and the perceptual. They keep charging that Obama is a dangerous radical even when he pursues middle-of-the-road policies. Their supposedly more temperate colleagues go along because they dont have to pay a price.
Obama has just told them their free ride is over. The stakes in American politics will be much clearer because he did.
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What Obama did was begin the destruction of the US Constitution.
You got that right! Obama is playing the Republicans as if they were a cheap drum.
Okay, E.J. You and Barry come on out of that bathhouse now.
Jesus Christ: You cant impeach Him and He aint gonna resign.
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