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Originally Posted by DrPhil
The POTUS is not THE White House representative and we do have a system of checks and balances that should never be blurred.
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Huh? The POTUS = the White House (at least in the sense that "White House" is a metonymy). Anybody else at the White House is answerable to him, represents him and speaks for him. And I fail to see how speeches from the president, even if there are too many of them, blur the system of checks and balances.
For that matter, I'm curious -- is the current president really using the bully pulpit that much more than any of his predecessors?
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
The problem is that people, in general, are so categorical that they feel they have to be 100% for or against.
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Sadly true, even if they don't know what the debate is about.
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