On 11/29/2011 7:00, Warp wrote:
>    I think your president should make a public statement strongly condemning
> police brutality

That would be great. But as long as he keeps locking up people without 
accusing them of crimes, supporting torture, etc, it's not going to have 
much affect what he says.

>    OTOH, I understand that Obama is not very known for standing firmly and
> strongly behind his principles, and instead trying to make compromises and
> try to make everybody happy, making him seem so weak, which is why he has
> lost so much citizen support.

Yep. That's a big part of it. Of course, the fact that half of Congress 
feels it's more important to make him look bad than to make the country work 
well is the other part.

>    I think trying to appease the two parties in the senate with compromises
> is foolish. It's not the senate who elects the president. It's the people.

Technically, it's the senate. ;-) However, yes, it's the people who vote 
that elect both president and congress. The problem is that the president, 
supposedly, can only do what congress says to do, more or less. The 
president can't pass laws, can't fund spending, can't change taxes, etc. 
(Again, all in theory, because if the president doesn't obey the congress 
there isn't a whole lot they can do in any sort of short time-frame. It's 
not like you can arrest the president for torturing someone. And apparently 
you can't even arrest someone who isn't president for torturing someone.)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   People tell me I am the counter-example.

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