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the dunk of the year... for sure! blake griffin does it again O.O simply amazing!! blah blah blah, but blake's dunk is something else.

I'm pretty sure Fox News and many other places would just love to be in these little meetings, but that's not the case. News reporting can only dig so far. As far as these briefings that the President goes through each morning are concerned, the media never come near that room. Wanna know why? Two reasons: 1) The information discussed is top-secret. The President's daily brief (the actual information he's given at the meetings) is considered the most sensitive and most classified document in the US.

[b]And 2) because on-camera, all these men have to project a certain persona, a side that caters to the people that watch them on the tubes. It's when they're off-camera that they get serious and get down to business.

Okay, maybe not. You seem to be stuck on this word, "actions". What exactly do YOU mean when you say actions? Are you talking about the decisions he makes in the briefings that I mentioned, or the things he says when he's got a camera on his face? Because if you're talking about the former, then unless you happen to be the Secretary of Defense or someone else in that room that's actually present when he makes his decisions, you're not really in a position to judge them. If the latter, well, you already know what I have to say about someone on-camera.

There's two things I'm going to mention here:

1) Up until this point, I was working under the assumption that you were simply talking about the President, and not the rest of the Cabinet or their officials. If you're going to change the tune of your song now and say "I'm not just blaming the President, I'm blaming everyone else too", then we have a completely different ball-game. We're no longer simply talking about Obama, but essentially the entirety of the Executive branch (and possibly some of the Legislative as well). In this respect, I completely agree with you. Because that's essentially the point I've been trying to make; it's not just Obama. It's EVERYONE. The blame goes EVERYWHERE, not just to the Oval Office. Which brings me to my second point...

2)No. This is exactly what I didn't want to hear. If you're going to talk about blame and the guilty parties, you better damn well make sure you do a good job of it. Simplifying the order of the system in order to say "no, it's that guy's fault" illustrates one of two things: either A) you're ignorant and don't acknowledge facts, or B) you don't honestly know/care about how things actually work.

The blame is EVERYWHERE. To say otherwise is to admit that you have no place in an American political discussion.

I'm going out on a limb here and assuming that by results, you mean the end product of his actions.

At what point do we equate his actions with the results, then? The only thing that we, the people, ever truly see are the results of his decisions, NOT the decisions themselves. For all we know, he may have actually been trying to keep to his campaign agenda.

The choices he's given are his to make, but the actual implementation of these decisions is usually left in the hands of the various Departments.

Sure, it's wrong to say that he doesn't have some responsibility in the results, but it's just as wrong to completely fault him for them.

And while the President is indeed free from any higher authority, don't let that become synonymous in your mind with being completely free to act independent of others. Sure, he doesn't have to listen to what his advisors tell him. But do you realize how many things the President actually has to deal with and act upon on a daily basis? Every day, the President has to be briefed on what's going on both in and outside of the US, and every day he has to make changes to his policies to accommodate for them, or enact completely new policies altogether to factor them in. Sure, he can sit there and do all the work by himself, but that's like asking the captain of the Titanic to not only steer the ship in the right direction and keep it on a steady course, but also maintain it in working order, from bow to stern, and on top of that also expect him to be on the lookout for any and all icebergs that might threaten the ship and react immediately to them. All by himself.

It's unrealistic, and to actually expect that of him is absurd. That's why he needs people specializing in all the different areas of the ship to tell him what he needs to do. He can't actually be everywhere at once, and that's why he's forced to rely on the options his advisors give him. He has to trust that they're doing their job right and giving him the best choices he can make in each situation. And like I said, if the shit hits the fan, then the blame always falls on him, regardless of how little an effect he had on the actual outcome of his decision.

That's why I'm going to say this to all the Ron Paul fanatics in the thread: I completely agree with your support for Ron Paul. I believe that Paul may actually be the best candidate out there right now. But be forewarned; what Paul stands for and promises, and the things that he can actually do as President are two completely different things.

A political scientist once said, "Where you stand is where you sit." He was referring to the fact that the position or job you hold will affect how you view things.

To a certain degree, this means that it doesn't matter who the President is. Because the person sitting in that chair has a role and a job to do. And this job, the office of the President, is a job that severely limits the amount of personal input they can actually make. Campaign promises and beliefs stay in the waiting room because the men inside the conference chamber have neither the time nor the patience to factor them in. That's simply the way it is.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Who.. wants.. to know?

And what the hell happened to the Knicks? I'll tell you. Two words: Carmelo Anthony. There might be a reason he's only been out of the first round once in his entire career. He can't play with other stars. Wade has shown he can win with another star, Lebron is a pass happy player like Magic so its not a problem for him, Durant can win with Westbrook, Kobe can win with Pau. So why can't Carmelo win with Amare? Its baffling.

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Adblockers are convenient, but to my current knowledge they reduce the revenue from the site distributing them. Therefore it's kinda iffy to use them on websites which you actually like - Fakku - because the ad revenue helps pay for the servers. Image heavy websites use a lot of bandwidth.