Wouldn't candidate Obama, who was also a US Senator, have also been privy to most, if not all, of the information that he is privy to as the President?
>From his wiki entry: Obama held assignments on the Senate Committees for Foreign Relations, Environment and Public Works and Veterans' Affairs through December 2006.[85] In January 2007, he left the Environment and Public Works committee and took additional assignments with Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.[86] He also became Chairman of the Senate's subcommittee on European Affairs.[87] As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Obama made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. He met with Mahmoud Abbas before Abbas became President of the Palestinian National Authority, and gave a speech at the University of Nairobi condemning corruption within the Kenyan government.[88] -----Original Message----- From: GMoney [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 3:13 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Limbaugh is voice of GOP majority? On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Obama started the process of looking for options on where to move the > prisoners in the federal judicial system. The hue and cry raised by > members of Congress was so close to universal that they realized that > there is no way in hell that they would be allowed to do it. Bills > were being drafted disallowing it and it would have set up a big fight > on separation of powers between Congress and the Executive that Obama > didn't want to have. So, in the end, he gave in to political > expediency. No knew "secret" information. Just politics. He, > presumably, figured that save his political capital for battles where > he stood a better chance of winning. > > He's probably right on the political side of things, I'm almost > certain he is, but I would have preferred to see him attempt to do the > right thing even if he lost in the process. > Candidate Obama knew all of those political hurdles...so why did he still promise to do it? Did he underestimate it? Or perhaps never really intend on going through with it? I guess i'm giving him a little bit more credit than that...but you could be right. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348895 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
