Barack Obama Quotes
This was a pretty shameful day for Washington.
Most of the Republicans in the Senate, using the filibuster, blocked legislation making schools and streets safer by expanding the requirement for gun checking to keep mentally ill people and violent criminals from purchasing a gun. The legislation had been crafted by Republican and Democratic Senators and was supported by 90 percent of Americans including 80 percent of Republicans and the majority of hunters and gun owners. This was one of the rare instances where public opinion did not matter at all to the Congress, and while a majority of the Senators supported the legislation a significant minority was more in fear of the NRA and the Gun lobby than they were of the voters. To the Republican minority, the possibility of a mentally deranged, violent, convicted felon, should be allowed to buy a military style assault rifle or any other weapon at a gun show without anyone bothering to check his background was less desirable than requiring gun sellers to spend 3-5 minutes to check out the potential buyer.
Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (Democrat, IL), United States Senator (Democrat, IL), National TV Statement, April 17, 2013
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The President had negotiated the League of Nations as a part of the treaty negotiations ending World War I. However, he could not sell the idea to the Republican controlled Senate and the treaty was never ratified. This was the death of the League of Nations, a predecessor organization to the United Nations. America had gone into a period of extreme isolationism which in many way enabled WWII to get started. After WWII, the nation did not make the same mistake and the establishment of the United Nations was ratified handily. President Truman, however, was a much better salesman than President Wilson had been, and perhaps more important, the Republicans and Congress had never been involved in the League of Nations negotiations, whereas Truman had involved them heavily in a bipartisan effort.
Amazingly the newspaper castigated Cunningham for making obscene gestures and saying “Fuck You” to constituents who would tell the Congressman that there was too much Defense spending. The reason this was amazing is that the San Diego Union supported Cunningham every single time he ran for election and never wrote a word about his illegally swinging contracts to firms. He had been taking bribes all along and when the Federal judge sentenced him to jail called him the ‘most corrupt congressman in American History.’
Nixon’s remark {583773} had been suppressed by the Nixon family and McGovern and the world first heard it 40 years after the fact.
They are reputed to have had an affair during the war.
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
