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Barack Obama

grantcart

(53,061 posts)

8. It was ironic that this happened on a day that DU was up to its neck in outrage threads

Reply to DevonRex (Reply #7)

Wed May 1, 2013, 04:32 PM

May 2013

because the President signed a relatively minor issue of approving a band aid on FAA sequestering and virtually no attention to this much greater issue.

Many people were shouting so insistently about using the "bully pulpit" that they didn't hear the President doing just that.