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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Can you please focus on the issue of the potential abuse of executive power.
If you want to start a thread on the relative cost of this inauguration as opposed to earlier inaugurations, feel free to do so.
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I think it is an abuse of power. Do the people have any say in this matter? Who decided what was going to need spent where?
If not the people and the Obama camp made all or most of these spending decisions.... then that is an abuse of power because nowhere in the Constitution does it say the taxpayers must pay horrendously outrageous tax money for the president to be inaugurated.
Sorry but this thread is on abuses of power, WE all fucking allowed Bush to abuse his power much like WE all allowed the GOP Congress to handcuff Clinton.
You can't do much about the past but learn from it and to make sure it doesn't happen again.You can't impeach a president after he is out of office and I seriously doubt you would find enough support to prosecute unless you linked him to 9/11 directly. I thought Obama was going to bring "healing" anyway. To go after Bush and to spend BILLIONS of taxpayers money, we do not have just to say he was a bad president is far more divisive than it could ever be helpful.
In these economic times and times of "bail outs" we have far more important things to worry about.
But if you go after Bush, then hold Obama to the same standards and if he abuses power, takes advantage of the office and so on.... then you best being crying the same "string him up" cry you are calling on Bush or you are hypocrites and truly not worried about the country or the people, you are just wanting your party to have power, for whatever reason.
The GOP was for the most part very silent on Bush's abuses, but tore this nation up and truly divided it by the travesty they put us through going after Clinton.
Every president can be seen at one point or another "abusing" their power. What needs to be truly looked at and understood was the intent of that abuse. Did (insert president's name here) abuse the power for personal gain or did he abuse it for what he truly believed to be the best interest of this country?
I think as wrong as Bush was and as divisive and egotistically incorrect, he did what he truly believed to be for the best interest of the country. It's just the advisers and people he was surrounded by saw a different philosophy than the majority. 20 years from now he maybe considered a great visionary or he maybe called the worst president in history, but it is for HISTORY to decide now, his time is over let it go and rebuild.