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WarDog
03-13-2009, 02:07 AM
http://undergroundbrooklyn.com/usnews-story-006.html

silverhawks
03-13-2009, 11:22 AM
Got to say something here for the sake of clarity, even though I'm not a fan of Obama. (At this point, I think that the entire world would quite frankly be a better place without our current crop of hideously corrupt politicians and bankers.)

From the article:

"President Obama did, however, release a "signing statement", citing constitutional concerns within certain elements of the bill. But in a show of hypocracy this week, Obama criticized President Bush for frequently releasing such statements upon signing such bills into law."

The big difference here is that Obama used the signing statement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signing_statements) as it was meant to be used - for a President to add personal comments to the bill, in this case, to publicly record criticisms of unconstitutional elements of the bill, and to cite that because of this, they would be recorded as "suggestions" only.

From what I understand, Bush used presidential signing statements as a way to entirely circumvent laws, citing his office gave him the authority to ignore laws, up to and including the Constitution itself.