In the video below, former President Bill Clinton explains, the President’s job is “to make the calls when no one else can do it”—and President Obama chose the “harder and more honorable” path to bring Osama bin Laden to justice.
What would Mitt Romney have done facing this same decision? Romney once said that it was “not worth moving heaven and earth” to try and “catch one person.” He has since flip-flopped on that statement too.
Watch the video below.
After months of Republican opposition to the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, it finally passed the Senate yesterday on a 68-31 vote. All 31 votes against the re-authorization of the bill came from Senate Republicans. For the other Republicans who joined with the Democrats to pass the bill, maybe it was this emotional plea from Sen Al Franken that did it.
The bill now goes to the Republican controlled House of Representatives where it will face a much harder time.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – The attorney for the Florida man charged with murder in the shooting of an unarmed black teen said Friday he didn’t know his client had raised $200,000 before a bond hearing last week in which his client was granted $150,000 bond.
George Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder in the Feb. 26 shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin after weeks without an arrest led to protests nationwide over racial profiling and controversial self-defense laws in Florida and other states. Martin was black; Zimmerman’s father is white and his mother is from Peru.
Zimmerman has gone into hiding since his release this week after paying 10 percent of his bail, though he has to wear a GPS ankle bracelet that authorities can use to track his location.
Zimmerman’s lawyer, Mark O’Mara told a judge Friday that Zimmerman’s family hadn’t told him about the money raised before his client was granted $150,000 bond.
Source: USA Today
