17-05-2013, 06:36 AM
Let me ask each of you. What would you have done if there was a disruption, or 'leak', or a perceived (or a real) attempt to spy on the media to expose their sources of information? That is, if you were President? How would you handle these types of situatiions?
The President cannot know everything that is going on in the country, or even in his own administration. He has asked that Charles Schumer re-introduce legislation which did not pass in the Senate in 2009 to protect media workers and their sources. Remember that the Republicans, on the night of his inauguration in January of 2009, pledged to make Obama a one-term president.
I would think that you might want to reassure the American people in whatever way you could. Since you could not change the past, you could certainly change the future so that these errors, if that's what they were, would not happen again.. It's rather difficult when the President is under fire by the opposing party, eager to destroy his presidency. and the chances of a presidential nominee in 2016.
Think of what FDR had to do while fighting off the powerful fascists who still wanted to cast him out, even after their 1933-34 plot failed. Yet he was re-electred four times!
Adele
The President cannot know everything that is going on in the country, or even in his own administration. He has asked that Charles Schumer re-introduce legislation which did not pass in the Senate in 2009 to protect media workers and their sources. Remember that the Republicans, on the night of his inauguration in January of 2009, pledged to make Obama a one-term president.
I would think that you might want to reassure the American people in whatever way you could. Since you could not change the past, you could certainly change the future so that these errors, if that's what they were, would not happen again.. It's rather difficult when the President is under fire by the opposing party, eager to destroy his presidency. and the chances of a presidential nominee in 2016.
Think of what FDR had to do while fighting off the powerful fascists who still wanted to cast him out, even after their 1933-34 plot failed. Yet he was re-electred four times!
Adele