--- In [email protected], "ShempMcGurk" <shempmcg...@...> wrote: > > About a year or so ago we had a discussion over Obama's > comments during his campaign to become the presidential > nominee of the Democratic Party in which he said that > once he was president that he'd overturn laws he deemed > unconstitutional (a big gaffe because any high school > student can tell you that presidents can't do that; only > the courts can).
We've been through this before, Shemp. You haven't got a leg to stand on with this. Here's what he was quoted as saying: "I would call my attorney general in and review every single executive order issued by George Bush and overturn those laws--or executive decisions that I feel violate the constitution." "Laws" was obviously a slip of the tongue, which he instantly corrected. He was talking about reviewing executive orders, which *can* be reversed by the president. > Anyway, at the time you wrote something like: yeah, he > said the same thing when he was in Fairfield. > > Well, I think I've found on youtube what you were > referring to. No, Rick was tellling us what Obama had said in response to a question *he* asked Obama, not that Dennis Raimondi asked Obama. > Although he doesn't say it as explicity as the gaffe he > made in Denver, It wasn't even a gaffe. > you can sort of interpret it as the same > thing (the discussion starts at about 2:20): No, you can't "sort of interpret it" as saying he himself was going to repeal laws, sorry. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlPzmyX6sOc > > Is this what you were referring to? Here's what Rick said: "That's almost verbatim the answer he gave to me in Fairfield when I asked him about impeaching Bush/ Cheney and repairing the constitutional damage they had done." And here's Rick's original account of what he asked Obama in Fairfield: "When Obama was in FF, I asked him about impeaching Bush and Cheney. He said he felt it would be too disruptive that Congress wouldn't get anything else accomplished but he said that if elected, one of his first moves would be to have his attorney general review everything Bush and Cheney had done to erode the Constitution, and that he would reverse those decisions so as to repair the damage."
