DU this Freeper poll: Can the President do any damn thing he wants?

[Thom Little]

Somebody needs to screw their heads on straight. Scroll about halfway down the page and look for the poll in the column on the right.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse

[napi21]

1. Unbelievable results!

It still says 79% Pres can do what he wants!!!!

I'd love to be able to post a question there, "If the President was Clinton, would you still feel the same way?"

[bertha katzenengel]

2. there is only one correct answer; this can't be an opinion question

the only correct answer is that Congress limits the powers of the president. Freepers need to go back to freshman government and learn about checks & balances. They scream so much about what the founders intended -- C&B was certainly intended by the founders.

Morons, I swear to christ. They are a bunch of blind morons.

[Erika]

5. Yep, it's frustrating, isn't it.

They actually vote(for a protector who they think will be their dada and keep them safe) They don't stand on their own two feet.

[Erika]

3. The Freeper Bushbots would anoint W King

and lick his toes at the same time. They love having a master to avoid thinking and self-responsibility. Having a King lightens their lives.

[neoblues]

7. Simply "Red""Dickless"

Yup, Ridiculous...

These people like to think of themselves as independent, courageous, self-sufficient etc... yet they're perfectly willing to give up all their freedoms and rights and hand them over to their president.

First, that's an insult to all the courageous military men through history who've fought and/or died for those liberties. It's hardly courageous to let your government do anything it wants--just to "protect" you. Rather a poor trade--freedom for security; even if that (security) were what the government was offering in exchange for your freedom (they aren't interested in ensuring your security--rather your obedience).

Second, it's insanely stupid to trust this particular Presidential criminal with such power over you and your families. They just can't see through him--they see whatever it is they want to see (and I can't imagine what it is they want to see--maybe it's a "caring", "supportive", "father-like" personal Presidential protector?).

Alas, we (all of us, and even worse, our posterity) will come to regret their short-sighted, misplaced trust (at least our posterity won't 'miss' the freedoms they will never have known).

[BuyingThyme]

4. Amazing. These animals openly admit to standing against

everything this country was built on. They openly admit to being enemies of the United States. What a sad place.

[MnFats]

6. you'd think these dolts would catch on sooner or later...

...."their" president doesn't give a flying fuck about them; Bush is fucking THEIR rights over, too.
....Imagine for just a moment if Clinton had pulled HALF the shit this president has pulled.

[donheld]

8. done

If the president can do what ever he wants we should have left Saddam in power cuz he can do what ever he wants.

[Crunchy Frog]

9. Jesus Christ!

These idiots really believe that being elected (or selected) president confers dictatorial powers on one.

At least with DU, I know that even if we finally get a Dem into the White House, we won't just give him or her a pass on everything. No Dem president, no matter how popular at DU, would ever get the kind of response to that question that W is getting over there. That's the real difference between us and them. The blind partisanship and and willingness to give him a pass on absolutely everything is really sad and pathetic.

[librechik]

20. to be fair, it's only during wartime

and Our Dear Leader wouldn't start a war just to get dictatorial powers, so stop saying that!!!!

[JohnnyRingo]

10. I think most of them misread the poll....

They thought it said THIS president.
I imagine they think they can "undo" the power if dems take over the WH.

Morans

[0rganism]

15. They might see the conundrum differently:

If THIS president can do what HE wants, there will never be another non-Republican president of the United States again.

And for once, I think they'd have a point.

[Vidar]

11. done. so what.

[Crunchy Frog]

12. I wonder if that poll was actually posted by an undercover DUer

in order to trick them into revealing just how stupid and fascist they really are. I swear to God is wasn't me.;)

[B Calm]

13. Done...

[NMMNG]

14. These people are positively stupid

They have no clue as to the basic structure of government (checks and balances), and obviously aren't thinking ahead to what might happen if a Democrat takes office in '08. I'm sure they wouldn't want that person to have unbridled dictatorial powers.

[Virginian]

16. Would they have voted the same during the Clinton Administration?

A measure of "Is it right" is to put your most liked and least liked president in the scenerio and see if it works either way.

[theHandpuppet]

17. In 1776...

... they would have been called Tories, supporting another King George.

[aka-chmeee]

19. Another Time

In the sixties and seventies, they would have had to hate themselves for "Better Red than Dead" pinkos.

[Oceansaway]

18. Done...n/t