At what age were you first aware of your pride in the United States of America?
Can you remember? I mean really remember? As I think back over my 47 1/2 years, I think I felt pride when I was in elementary school. Once when we were raising money for the Red Cross to help others. Again, when I so wanted to be in the flag raising group - the group of boys and girls responsible for raising and lowering the flag each morning and afternoon. And once more during the 1972 Olympics - watching our athletes stand on the winners podium, seeing our flag raised, hearing our national anthem played. I'm not sure what to make of a person (for example, Michelle Obama, who'd like to be the First Lady) who does not feel proud of his or her country until she or he is 40 years old or older.
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in 5th grade when i studied the constitution
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from a child
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Ignorance why do you people keeping taking things out of context to support your belief?
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I was most proud when I was sworn into the Navy.
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I was born in `68, Fell in love with America in `76...What was Obama doing ???
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I am old enough (barely) to remember seeing Bobby Kennedy's funeral train - I asked my Dad why anybody would shoot him. That's when I realised there's bad people in the world. As for my pride - I think probably going to Navy Airshows when I was a kid and we lived on the base - that was awesome!
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I'm very proud of being an American but I have been so embarrassed that we have such a stupid doofus for a president. That's why I'm scared of Palin. She's as much of a dimwit as Bush. Why did McCain have to pick her. I'm going for the safe bet this year...Obama/Biden '08!
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When we celebrated the bicentennial of our great nation in 1976. I was seven.
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my dad is retired military, so i have always felt a sense of pride for my country and for all the men and women who fight to make it a safer place.
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Wow - I am your age, and I vividly remember when I was 10, an older cousin who was in Vietnam, and came home in his dress uniform, and talked about the War - I was so proud to be his relative, you know? And 7 years later I put on the uniform, too.
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I became very proud of America from the moment I step foot into the country as an immigrant. Coming from a very conservative and provincial-mind culture at the age of 9, I was shocked that another country where the predominate ethnic majority is different from mine would welcome me into their country and allow me and my family a chance to thrive. When I became naturalized as a citizen at age 15, it was another instance that I felt a swelling of pride. I was allowed to have the full rights as any other citizen of this country that is founded on so much promise and ideals of equality. However, are there times when I am deeply ashamed of my country? Of course, many times. I think that's OK, as long as we are willing to work and help make it better. It was a very poor choice of words from Michelle Obama. She admitted that it was a mistake to put it that way. I bet if you ask her this same question, she would easily be able to point out much earlier when she had been proud of America. She said what she said because she wanted to really emphasize how proud she was of the US at that moment. At that moment, her pride in America was so great that she forgot about all the previous times when she was proud of the US. Haven't you ever said something that you don't fully mean and regret?
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I never diss America, but I think pride of any individual country increases a feeling of separateness and can create a feeling of superiority when we all need to be there for one another. I don't allow my country's politics or any country's politics to cause me to feel any way in particular towards an entire country of people when there is good and bad everywhere. I feel Fortunate to have been born in one of the countries that allows a decent standard of living in general. But I also know I have an obligation to help my brothers and sisters who do not.
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I can remember as a child in elementary also having a great sense of pride while saying the national anthem and singing the star spangled banner. I remember I was once fortunate enough to help raise and lower the flag one day. I was not sure why but it was such a great moment for me. I am still proud of my country and I think that if it takes someone that long to realize they are too, then it is not sincere.
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I can't remember any specific time. Usually, the feeling involves pride in certain Americans, like the founding fathers, Lincoln, and FDR -- rather than pride in the "United States." Frankly, it's hard for me to feel proud when I think of the needless wars we've fought. Also the way we've treated minorities -- starting, right at the beginning, with the native Americans. I guess that blows any chance I had of being president, or even first lady. But it's the truth.
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When John Glenn went Orbited the Earth for the first time I was in grade school - I was so young and it seemed scary but normal for the USA to be in this competition race to the moon against the USSR. I'd have to say that is my first recollection of being proud to be an American followed by many, many more to follow that I can't distinguish where my adult moment would be. For those excuse makers for Michelle, you will have to forgive me if I cannot imagine ANY context where I could say the words that I was "proud of my country for the first time in my adult life". Especially if you were an adult on 9/11 ! (next you'll try to say Obama never knew about Rev Wright's rhetoric -- read this last paragraph http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/us/politics/30obama.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin )
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When I was a young girl and I saw pictures of my grandfathers in their service uniforms. I'd say I was probably 11 before I asked what they did when they served. I am always proud of my country and wouldn't want to be anywhere else. God Bless America land that I love stand beside her and guide her through the night with the light from above!!!
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About 5th or 6th grade.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Is Sarah Palin Qualified to be president of the United States of America?
Is Sarah Palin Qualified to be president of the United States of America?
She had a 16 year old daughter get Pregnant in her House. She was Governor of Alaska For only 20 months when she quit to make big Money, 40 million. She went to 4 colleges in 6 years to get a bachelors degree. She is an ultra conservative. she has no appeal to independents but a small constituency of conservative followers. her daughter is a public disgrace but won't even allow her mother over to her house. If this person and Donal trump are the answer to our countries problems then only God can Help us
Government - 6 Answers
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What is wrong with being ultra conservative? I agree with you about her and Donald Trump... but she is qualified. I am not saying that I want her to be president by any means. Her personal life doesn't matter at all.
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Nice slant you put on it. Unfair and mostly not true, but a nice slant anyway. I don't say she is qualified to be president, but I do say she is more qualified than the fraud now in the white house. All things are relative, your silly hate mongering and lies aside.
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Obama went to a racist church for twenty years and donated 20,000 dollars. His father was not born in this country and he is named after an enemy of the State. Obviously, the qualifications for leader of our nation have dropped considerably. With that being said, Sarah Palin would never et my vote. You sy that only God can help us, yet it appears that you would vote for Obama. Obama followed a warped version of 'Christianity' for nearly twenty years. If you're looking for God, than you won't find it in Obama.
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yes, she can see Russia threw her trees wink wink so that makes her a good republican.
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No. Don't even get me started on Sarah Palin. Gahhh.
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None of what you mentioned disqualifies her. She is FAR from qualified though. She doesn't understand economics. She has a terrible view of foreign policy. She doesn't have any objectivity or ability to 'build consensus' (i.e. craft legislation that can actually pass in the US Congress.) Forget about Palin running. I'm sad about it though. I wanted Tina Fey to come back to SNL.
She had a 16 year old daughter get Pregnant in her House. She was Governor of Alaska For only 20 months when she quit to make big Money, 40 million. She went to 4 colleges in 6 years to get a bachelors degree. She is an ultra conservative. she has no appeal to independents but a small constituency of conservative followers. her daughter is a public disgrace but won't even allow her mother over to her house. If this person and Donal trump are the answer to our countries problems then only God can Help us
Government - 6 Answers
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What is wrong with being ultra conservative? I agree with you about her and Donald Trump... but she is qualified. I am not saying that I want her to be president by any means. Her personal life doesn't matter at all.
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Nice slant you put on it. Unfair and mostly not true, but a nice slant anyway. I don't say she is qualified to be president, but I do say she is more qualified than the fraud now in the white house. All things are relative, your silly hate mongering and lies aside.
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Obama went to a racist church for twenty years and donated 20,000 dollars. His father was not born in this country and he is named after an enemy of the State. Obviously, the qualifications for leader of our nation have dropped considerably. With that being said, Sarah Palin would never et my vote. You sy that only God can help us, yet it appears that you would vote for Obama. Obama followed a warped version of 'Christianity' for nearly twenty years. If you're looking for God, than you won't find it in Obama.
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yes, she can see Russia threw her trees wink wink so that makes her a good republican.
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No. Don't even get me started on Sarah Palin. Gahhh.
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None of what you mentioned disqualifies her. She is FAR from qualified though. She doesn't understand economics. She has a terrible view of foreign policy. She doesn't have any objectivity or ability to 'build consensus' (i.e. craft legislation that can actually pass in the US Congress.) Forget about Palin running. I'm sad about it though. I wanted Tina Fey to come back to SNL.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Do you like paying UNFAIR TAXES in the United States of America?
Do you like paying UNFAIR TAXES in the United States of America?
Common sense.... help the hard working people with a little bit of extra money in their pockets with a some non-taxable money in circulation..... IT IS TIME THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE PROTEST DAY AND NIGHT AGAINST A GOVERNMENT WHO SPENDS OUR MONEY SO FRIVILOUSLY, BAILS-OUT ALL THEIR BUDDIES, PROVIDES KICK-BACKS, EARMARKED PET PORK BARRELL SPENDING SPREES.... it is all about absolue total CONTROL over all of us!!!!!!!!!!! While the smokesreen silly party Dems. and Reps. people are arguing and bickering amongst themselves, our dirty scumbag politicians are laughing all the way to the bank with our money!!!!!!!!!! Almost a trillion dollars while the American people sit back and take it up the @$$.... read some of the overnight urgently needed passed STIMULUS bill with such a NICE name part of the economic revovery package.... we've been had fools!!!! Read some of it and LQQK where OUR money is actually being spent... it will make you angry what they did, this is a scam people... don't you see it?????? www.readthestimulus.org WE PAY TO LIVE HERE!!!!!!!!! All these taxes makes you wonder why NOBODY said anything way way back when.... it was the totalitaian tip toe.... give em' and inch and they take a mile. Now we are just slaves..... Accounts Receivable Tax Building Permit Tax CDL License Tax Cigarette Tax Corporate Income Tax Dog License Tax Federal Income Tax Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) Fishing License Tax Food License Tax Fuel Permit Tax Gasoline Tax Hunting License Tax Inheritance Tax Inventory Tax IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax) IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax) Liquor Tax Luxury Tax Marriage License Tax Medicare Tax Property Tax Real Estate Tax Service charge taxes Social Security Tax Right to work tax Road Usage Tax (Truckers) Sales Taxes Recreational Vehicle Tax School Tax State Income Tax State Unemployment Tax (SUTA) Telephone Federal Excise Tax Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax Telephone State and Local Tax Telephone Usage Charge Tax Utility Tax Vehicle License Registration Tax Vehicle Sales Tax Watercraft Registration Tax Well Permit Tax Workers Compensation Tax Don't forget the proposed soda, fat food, tanning, and health care taxes that will be imposed on us!!! NICE isn't it??? A bunch of dirty polticans... for decades and decades!!!
Government - 5 Answers
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It's an American tradition. In colonial Virginia you had to pay a tax if your dog's tail wasn't docked.
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I didn't read through your rampage But I don't like taxes
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you also forgot the death tax.....gotta love the Gov.
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I like it!
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The worse fact of a lot of our taxes is they go to foreign aid for things like building a bridge over a dry creek bed in Jordan so the Bedouin's camel's won't have to trudge so far or for condoms for people who have no clue how to use them. Then we allow illegals to live here without paying taxes, while we do. That is the unfairness of our taxes.
Common sense.... help the hard working people with a little bit of extra money in their pockets with a some non-taxable money in circulation..... IT IS TIME THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE PROTEST DAY AND NIGHT AGAINST A GOVERNMENT WHO SPENDS OUR MONEY SO FRIVILOUSLY, BAILS-OUT ALL THEIR BUDDIES, PROVIDES KICK-BACKS, EARMARKED PET PORK BARRELL SPENDING SPREES.... it is all about absolue total CONTROL over all of us!!!!!!!!!!! While the smokesreen silly party Dems. and Reps. people are arguing and bickering amongst themselves, our dirty scumbag politicians are laughing all the way to the bank with our money!!!!!!!!!! Almost a trillion dollars while the American people sit back and take it up the @$$.... read some of the overnight urgently needed passed STIMULUS bill with such a NICE name part of the economic revovery package.... we've been had fools!!!! Read some of it and LQQK where OUR money is actually being spent... it will make you angry what they did, this is a scam people... don't you see it?????? www.readthestimulus.org WE PAY TO LIVE HERE!!!!!!!!! All these taxes makes you wonder why NOBODY said anything way way back when.... it was the totalitaian tip toe.... give em' and inch and they take a mile. Now we are just slaves..... Accounts Receivable Tax Building Permit Tax CDL License Tax Cigarette Tax Corporate Income Tax Dog License Tax Federal Income Tax Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) Fishing License Tax Food License Tax Fuel Permit Tax Gasoline Tax Hunting License Tax Inheritance Tax Inventory Tax IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax) IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax) Liquor Tax Luxury Tax Marriage License Tax Medicare Tax Property Tax Real Estate Tax Service charge taxes Social Security Tax Right to work tax Road Usage Tax (Truckers) Sales Taxes Recreational Vehicle Tax School Tax State Income Tax State Unemployment Tax (SUTA) Telephone Federal Excise Tax Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax Telephone State and Local Tax Telephone Usage Charge Tax Utility Tax Vehicle License Registration Tax Vehicle Sales Tax Watercraft Registration Tax Well Permit Tax Workers Compensation Tax Don't forget the proposed soda, fat food, tanning, and health care taxes that will be imposed on us!!! NICE isn't it??? A bunch of dirty polticans... for decades and decades!!!
Government - 5 Answers
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It's an American tradition. In colonial Virginia you had to pay a tax if your dog's tail wasn't docked.
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I didn't read through your rampage But I don't like taxes
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you also forgot the death tax.....gotta love the Gov.
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I like it!
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The worse fact of a lot of our taxes is they go to foreign aid for things like building a bridge over a dry creek bed in Jordan so the Bedouin's camel's won't have to trudge so far or for condoms for people who have no clue how to use them. Then we allow illegals to live here without paying taxes, while we do. That is the unfairness of our taxes.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Where in the United States of America's Constitution does it say United Nations?
Where in the United States of America's Constitution does it say United Nations?
ARTICLE 1, SECTION 8 The Congress shall have Power: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.... ARTICLE 1, SECTION 9 The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. ARTICLE II, SECTION 2 The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States.... He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur.... The use of Military forces in hostilities is by definition WAR. I looked through the US Constitution and there is no such thing as "Police Action". Police action is a term used by Liberal Presidents that got us (the USA) in Korea and Vietnam and now Libya.
Politics - 15 Answers
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It does not of course.
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Wow, conservatism truly is a mental handicap.
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it doesn't..but when has that stopped us in the past
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It doesn't say I can buy a car either, but that was an agreement I made with the dealer.
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Nowhere - and the US government is only given the powers in the Constitution. International law does NOT supersede the Constitution. If Obama signs a treaty that contradicts the Constitution, then that treaty would be invalid - because the people of the US would not have given the government the power to sign it.
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The UN is a treaty between many countries. The Senate approved that treaty in 1945.
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Libyan intervention isn't a war,it's a police action.
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Are you a troll? Seriously? The United States relationship with the UN is by treaty, which the President signs and Senate affirms. Please tell me you're joking.
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When Ronald Regan attacked Qaddafiby bombing it wasnt war now Obama is doing the same thing put aside your racism and treat him the same as a republican president
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Yeah!!! And I want all that money back from that unconstitutional NASA thingy.
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Call and write your congressman/woman and your 2 senators and demand this War be minus the US. Let those two renown warriors France and Italy carry the day, they've no stomach, France iwill use French Foreign Legion and Italy will fold in a NY Minute. This is a planned debacle to only lower the image in the rest of the world's eyes.
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Nowhere. Our founding fathers are turning in their graves just knowing that we're part of an organization like that.
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no where
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Perhaps you're thinking there was a Russian on the committee, (edit: that created the USA Constitution). edit: Actually, the USA agreed to the standards when they helped create them.
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sigh. You answered your own question. Article II, Section 2: "He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur...." The United Nations treaty was ratified by the US Senate on December 4th, 1945. Here a bit of the Constitution you left out: Article VI: "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land;" That make the UN treaty on-par with the rest of the Constitution. But onto the power of Congress to declare war. We haven't declared war on anyone since June 5th, 1942. Yet we've managed to fight several wars since. Simply put, Congress doesn't have the power to stop the President from sending troops into battle except through cutting off spending, and it's hard to do that when there are soldiers on the ground. So Congress passed (over Nixon's veto) The War Powers Resolution of 1973 (50 U.S.C. 1541รข€“1548). This requires the President to notify Congress of any military action within 48 hours after its commencement. The President then has 60 days plus a 30 day withdrawal period to either get Congressional approval or to remove the forces prior to the deadline. Obama can have the Navy pound Libya for 59 days then order the fleet out, and never have to mention it to Congress. Perfectly legal.
ARTICLE 1, SECTION 8 The Congress shall have Power: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.... ARTICLE 1, SECTION 9 The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. ARTICLE II, SECTION 2 The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States.... He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur.... The use of Military forces in hostilities is by definition WAR. I looked through the US Constitution and there is no such thing as "Police Action". Police action is a term used by Liberal Presidents that got us (the USA) in Korea and Vietnam and now Libya.
Politics - 15 Answers
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It does not of course.
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Wow, conservatism truly is a mental handicap.
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it doesn't..but when has that stopped us in the past
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It doesn't say I can buy a car either, but that was an agreement I made with the dealer.
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Nowhere - and the US government is only given the powers in the Constitution. International law does NOT supersede the Constitution. If Obama signs a treaty that contradicts the Constitution, then that treaty would be invalid - because the people of the US would not have given the government the power to sign it.
6 :
The UN is a treaty between many countries. The Senate approved that treaty in 1945.
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Libyan intervention isn't a war,it's a police action.
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Are you a troll? Seriously? The United States relationship with the UN is by treaty, which the President signs and Senate affirms. Please tell me you're joking.
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When Ronald Regan attacked Qaddafiby bombing it wasnt war now Obama is doing the same thing put aside your racism and treat him the same as a republican president
10 :
Yeah!!! And I want all that money back from that unconstitutional NASA thingy.
11 :
Call and write your congressman/woman and your 2 senators and demand this War be minus the US. Let those two renown warriors France and Italy carry the day, they've no stomach, France iwill use French Foreign Legion and Italy will fold in a NY Minute. This is a planned debacle to only lower the image in the rest of the world's eyes.
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Nowhere. Our founding fathers are turning in their graves just knowing that we're part of an organization like that.
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no where
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Perhaps you're thinking there was a Russian on the committee, (edit: that created the USA Constitution). edit: Actually, the USA agreed to the standards when they helped create them.
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sigh. You answered your own question. Article II, Section 2: "He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur...." The United Nations treaty was ratified by the US Senate on December 4th, 1945. Here a bit of the Constitution you left out: Article VI: "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land;" That make the UN treaty on-par with the rest of the Constitution. But onto the power of Congress to declare war. We haven't declared war on anyone since June 5th, 1942. Yet we've managed to fight several wars since. Simply put, Congress doesn't have the power to stop the President from sending troops into battle except through cutting off spending, and it's hard to do that when there are soldiers on the ground. So Congress passed (over Nixon's veto) The War Powers Resolution of 1973 (50 U.S.C. 1541รข€“1548). This requires the President to notify Congress of any military action within 48 hours after its commencement. The President then has 60 days plus a 30 day withdrawal period to either get Congressional approval or to remove the forces prior to the deadline. Obama can have the Navy pound Libya for 59 days then order the fleet out, and never have to mention it to Congress. Perfectly legal.
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