I believe that had McCain won, we would be in WURSER shape.,.

that's a bit hard to believe, but not beyond the pale. Real healthcare reform that seperates healthcare from being an employer provided benefit might have started instead of obamacare which in the long run is our only way out of the healthcare mess. But this massive spending spree we're on might still have been the same. Senators don't make very good Presidents. So, i'll give you that as a possibility.

WebsterMark wrote on 10/22/12 at 17:46:16:



Obama may or may not have done more for security if he had the approval from congress. However, sadly we dont know, the cuts were made.

Obama has not borrowed or spent anything in the discretionary non defence arena. People get older, and start collecting retirements - aka - we need to pay them, we agreed to, people get hurt in wars - and we have to treat and pay them, we agreed to as well as sent them to war under false pretenses. We have to. We have to pay food stamps to people we have pulled into the program - Bushies did that, however we are obligated to pay that. Again we agreed to.

So expenses go up. Nothing we can do about that, unless we want to be called liars .. .which I know will not affect Mitt 1 bit, however we do like a president who follows the laws and commitments made by the govt.

So this was a expense that had to be approved by the repugs, and did not, and so didn't get done. So people got killed. Unfortunate, but pay up or shut up Repugs.

Cool.
Srinath.

Yea,, cant send Aid to a Hot Spot w/o Congressional Approval,, Thats a LIE, The Pres can send TRoops anywhere, any time, in response to imminent danger, & THEN get Congressional Approval.

BUT,, we havent even done That in Years.. we dont have an approved war anywhere,,theres no declaration of war for anything weve been in since I can even remember.

You guys are LAME,,

It must just SUCK knowing, deep down, how absolutely, completely & totally WRONG you are,& how absolutely, completely, 100% screwed UP this act was by your Sainted President.,He CHOSE to not respond to a plea for help, multiple times, from a HOT SPOT..

Now, ya gotta ask yerself WHY he chose to allow those people to sit there w/o enough security,

YOu can BET if it was because the Bubs wouldnt hand over the $$$, the MOMENT it went down, he woulda been on the TV, telling us all about How He was wanting to send in security, but the Bubs wouldnt let him,, But thats not what happened, is it?

Noooo,, what happened was, we got Lies,,lies that would cover HIS lame ass,, &, he wouldnt have NEEDED to cover his as with lame lies IF he had the Bubs to blame it on,, SOOO, YOu Lame excuse makers, wake UP,, YOur excuse isnt even LOGICAL,

Bull,, IF the Bubs said NO, No $$$  for this,, The pres would be screamin from every media outlet that our people died because the bubs wouldnt spend the $$.

AND, the Commander in Chief Has th authority to respond to Imminent Threats.

Lameness abounds here.

I guess I missed something, What was the question you wanted me to answer.

I done did it..Mita been in another thread,,

The pres has the power to send troops wherever,, to handle Imminent Threat, REad the Big C.