Rich or powerful?
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Rich and unknown. The power I have here on CP is already a considerable responsibility.
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Obama does NOT have the power to make anything illegal. That is exclusively the power of the Judicial branch. He has some influence on that realm via nominating individuals for the Supreme and District courts, but those all have to be approved by the Senate, and the President has no direct influence on any judicial decisions made. There are checks and balances in every branch, and at all levels of the governments specifically to prevent any one individual from having too much power, including the President.
jRaskell1 wrote:
Obama does NOT have the power to make anything illegal. That is exclusively the power of the Judicial branch.
Not directly, no (and it's actually the legislative branch; judicial only enforces laws (or overturns them if found unconstitutional.)) However the president has an enormous amount of "pull" with congress, and assuming the bill he wants passed isn't terribly insane (like say, legally mandating sex with chickens,) then it's going to be put up to vote. Contrast this with an ordinary citizen's ability to get one of those old shrivs to put a bill up for vote, and I'd say the president has at least 100 times greater chance of getting a bill voted into law. That sounds pretty powerful to me.
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I was just looking at the richest people in the world, Bill Gates at #1. But then I noticed Bill Gates rates "only" 6th on the most powerful people in the world. The numbers 1 to 5 on that list are Poetin, Merkel, Obama, the pope, and Xi Jinping. None of them really very rich people. So where would you rather be, #1 on the list of richest people or #1 on the list of most powerful people? Notice that "none" is not an option :) Stress comes with both money and power, but I'm not world changer, so I'd take the money. The only reason I'd like to be on the powerful list is so I can do my evil laugh and people would actually be afraid :D
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