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Originally Posted by example1
The details are in the weeds.
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Or, sometimes, in the Constitution.
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"...I actually give Bill Clinton enormous credit for having balanced those budgets during those years. It did take political courage for him to do that."
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I had thought that those budgets were passed by the Republican Congress...was I misled by the Constitution?
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We must do something different and to do that we have to put aside the petty stuff.
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Such as claiming credit for the Democratic President for the work of the Republican Congress?
Example1, I think that Obama is one solid candidate of several in the race. With Bill Richardson gone, he's the only tolerable Democratic candidate IMVHO, and I expect to cast my primary ballot for him given the current state of the races. That said, don't kid yourself that he's putting aside all of the "petty stuff." If elected, he'll run a government to the left of any since LBJ, or perhaps even FDR, unless blocked by a Republican Congress. Obama has made no effort to lead Democrats to follow the lead of President Bush. While I understand his reluctance to do so, he's established a track record that he regards conflict with the Executive as acceptable if he does it--he's got no moral high ground, if elected, criticizing Republicans who block his legislation.
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Originally Posted by Taliesin
Thanks JHB. Our initial contentious less than stellar meetings were more than likely due to my stubborn views on certain things. Passionate Red Sox fan after all. I appreciate the knowledge that you bring. It doesn't mean that I will always agree w/ your analysis. It does seem ultimately that we tend to agree on certain baseball matters if you didn't notice...we just come at it a different way. I apologize for my rudeness at times. We are in fact both Red Sox faithful. We should expend our energy making fun of Yankee fans and not go after each other when all is said and done.
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Thank you, Taliesin. It takes more moral courage to write what you did here than it did for me to agree with you on a single position. I'll try to match your example of civility.