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Originally Posted by MysticCat
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.
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As a metonymy. So, we agree.
It never begins and ends with the POTUS.
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Originally Posted by MysticCat
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.
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I didn't say the speeches did that.
One criticism of an overly visible President is with the message that it may send. Every POTUS works for us and is never too fantabulous to be, at the end of the day, "treated" like our employee.
People may not want to admit it, but there are plenty of people who forget the above when it comes to a president who they like or a president who is very visible. It happens with every well liked and visible president and Obama has taken it to another level.
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