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Into the balance cans the way they did, his action without consulting congress was upheld as appropriate under the war powers act. a president would have to cut new ground, do something like barack obama promised as a candidate he would do, which is to say no, i believe in defining presidential authority to wage war in a way that is more explicit, and therefore more constricted. he has not done that. he is acting consistent with the way bill clinton acted and nste wh tayot pridtsct imorn tis. y ...

Whos a birther is a racist, probably a card carrying member of the klan or something. thats not what i mean. what i mean is in america birth right citizenship is always about race. in 1857 in dread scott case, when the u.s. supreme court decided he had no rights, that a white man was bound to respect, it was a decision that though scott was born here in the united states, he was not a citizen under the constitution. in 1866, after the end of the civil war, and just before passage of the 14th ame...

Iraqis, civilians died as a result of the conflict, and weve got to be careful about slipping into these wars, and not even to get into the issue for too long of can we afford it, can we trash our domestic agenda when the pentagon is already taking over 50% of discretionary spending of the united states and we are paying 25% of the bill for nato? a discount is no good in any event, and we are really at a point here in our countrys history where we are buying into a form of mill tarrism that coul...

Strategic interest of the united states and as being in americas national interest. but the things that he described as proving that were potential flood of refugees in the middle east, the democratic impulses on view in the middle east with the various revolutions and uprisings being quenched by this brutal dictator, and un credibility, speaking for the international community and stepping up in cases like this. that is the sort of thing, you could make that case about america having a strong n...

Result of the conflict, and weve got to be careful about slipping into these wars, and not even to get into the issue for too long of can we afford it, can we trash our domestic agenda when the pentagon is already taking over 50% of discretionary spending of the united states and we are paying 25% of the bill for nato? a discount is no good in any event, and we are really at a point here in our countrys history where we are buying int. but once a civil war starts and we get enmeshed like we are ...

Presidency. you look at the way congress tried to stop bill clinton going into the balance cans the way they did, his action without consulting congress was upheld as appropriate under the war powers act. a president would have to cut new ground, do something like barack obama promised as a candidate he would do, which is to say no, i believe in defining presidential authority to wage war in a way that is more explicit, and therefore more constricted. he has not done that. he is acting consisten...

Doesnt get into the top ten? >> a lot of surprises. jackie robinson. in the full 25, there was no al sharpton. so theres a lot of surprises. and, you know, it just goes to show you the depth of individuals that this country has seen from the african-american community that have made huge couldnt abuses that rocky robinson, that al sharpton, that colin powell doesnt make the list. >> i saw two names that were -- that really stood out. homer plessy and dread scott, both famous for losing these con...

>> what do you think he was saying on the print pool? >> thats the right answer. having appointed judges myself, you do not ask them questions about that. i dont believe anything he says. so who knows what he will do when they get in there. >> what do you make of the president saying he is not going to ask a potential nominee whether its appropriate or inappropriate about what they think of the decision? >> you dont have ask, you already know. we have he was evidence of it from mike lee, the sen...

Opportunity. >> this is located in between egypt and tunesia. he was very specific about the problem being the flood of refugees, over those particular borders, which could indicate another situation with another refugee movement that wouldnt be as strategically important as refugees flooding into tunesia or egypt at this fragile point in the aftermath of their revolutions. >> i think the refugees point was sort of -- it led to the more specific point about why libya, and the more specific point...

>> he named this as an important strategic interest of the united states and as being in americas national interest. but the things that he described as proving that were potential flood of refugees in the middle east, the democratic impulses on view in the middle east with the various revolutions and uprisings being quenched by this brutal dictator, and un credibility, speaking for the international community and stepping up in cases like this. that is the sort of thing, you could make that cas...