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http://www.boston.com/news/world/2013/09/07/syria-most-intense-campaign-obama-presidency/WugiMFS9LUUkIJnU16zhVJ/story.htmlSyria the most intense campaign of Obamas presidency
By Mark Landler and Jonathan Weisman
WASHINGTON Each morning for the past week, at 7:45, more than a dozen White House aides have mustered in the corner office of President Barack Obamas chief of staff, Denis R. McDonough, to get their marching orders for what has become the most intense, uphill lobbying campaign of the Obama presidency.
The White Houses goal is to persuade Congress to authorize a limited military strike against Syria to punish it for a deadly chemical weapons attack. But after a frenetic week of wall-to-wall intelligence briefings, dozens of phone calls and hours of hearings with senior members of Obamas war council, more and more lawmakers, Republican and Democrat, are lining up to vote against the president.
Officials are guardedly optimistic about the Senate, but the blows keep coming. On Saturday, Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., perhaps the most endangered incumbent up for re-election, came out against the authorization to use force.
In the House, the number of rank-and-file members who have declared that they will oppose or are leaning against military action is approaching 218, the point of no return for the White House. Getting them to reverse their positions will be extremely difficult.
leftstreet
(36,109 posts)This is just sickening
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)This is infuriating.
leftstreet
(36,109 posts)kath
(10,565 posts)he sickens me. utterly disgusting.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)He never allowed it to even be part of the discussion of this country's future health care policy.
Too bad Obama didn't lobby for it the way he is in overdrive lobbying for this dumb war.
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Harmony Blue
(3,978 posts)haikugal
(6,476 posts)sometimes the truth hurts.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)he chooses something that IF he does get it - which is looking less than likely - it will at best make no difference If we are extremely fortunate it will serve no purpose - But is more likely to facilitate a catastrophe in the middle of an ethno/religious civil war
moondust
(19,993 posts)the scores of indiscriminately murdered kids, especially, that he feels he can do something about.
eridani
(51,907 posts)Fire is so much less painful than poison gas, donchaknow.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)Or do you not count that as murder?
Do these murdered children get the same level of sympathy from the CiC in your opinion?
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/drones-killed-4-700-u-senator-says-141143752--politics.html
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/22/leaked_report_shows_high_civilian_death_toll_from_cia_drone_strikes/
The internal document shows Pakistani officials too found that CIA drone strikes were killing a significant number of civilians and have been aware of those deaths for many years.
Of 746 people listed as killed in the drone strikes outlined in the document, at least 147 of the dead are clearly stated to be civilian victims, 94 of those are said to be children.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/24/world/la-fg-drone-study-20120925
Scores of indiscriminately murdered kids...
Sand Wind
(1,573 posts)HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)There are times when pom poms are just not cute.
warrant46
(2,205 posts)Cheering for death