--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk" <shempmcgurk@> 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. >
Not if you're going to rewrite the English language, Judy. > 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. > "Laws" may very well have been a slip of the tongue, Judy, as we discussed a hundred times, but saying right after it "or executive decisions" is NOT I repeat NOT "instantly correcting" it, as you well know. "Instantly correcting" it would have been saying something to the effect "I meant to say 'executive orders' " which he did NOT say. The English language is the English language. Give Obama a little respect for knowing the English language. > > 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. > Huh? Just above you said it was a "slip of the tongue". Is not a slip of the tongue 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." > If that's the case, then Obama would have said -- almost verbatim -- that he would reverse laws or executive decisions. Please don't reinterpret the English language, Judy. > 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." >
