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another_liberal

(8,821 posts)
Tue Sep 10, 2013, 12:22 PM Sep 2013

These are the words our President needs to stand by.

Last evening President Obama told NBC Nightly News:

“I am taking this vote in Congress and what the American people are saying very seriously. I recognize how important that debate is. It’s my belief that for me, the President, to act without consensus in a situation where there is no direct imminent threat to the homeland or our interests around the world – that’s not a kind of precedent that I want to set."


Stand by that statement, Mr. President, and our country will stand by you.

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