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Gregorian

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2. I believe this removed the power of those who oppose it. It's in the open now.
Wed May 9, 2012, 06:57 PM
May 2012

There isn't going to be a (forgive the Sarah Palin paraphrase) gotcha moment. He effectively kicked one of the legs out from their table. Any questions at this point will be rhetorical.

Furthermore, anyone who opposes civil rights is essentially anti-American. And civil rights is the context.

I believe, and have predicted all along, that Obama had a timing issue. He simply could not do what we wanted until reaching a point where there was a critical amount of support and understanding of the principals involved.

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