No, I do not know what produced the objections. But the objections appear to have been overridden. The note has been removed, and the petition now has 4800 signers.
If I had to guess, I would guess that it was a knee-jerk response by some people to what they perceived as a partisan attack on President Obama. There is an unfortunate dynamic that when there is a Democratic President and a Republican House, some Democrats perceive the defense of Congressional war powers as a Republican, anti-Democratic concern. Of course, if one is a person who is concerned with defending Congressional war powers as a means of preventing war, this is a horrible dynamic, and this is why I am determined to fight it. On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Marv Gandall <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2013-08-26, at 2:50 PM, Robert Naiman wrote: > > > Check this out: > > > > "MoveOn volunteers reviewed this petition and determined that it may not > reflect MoveOn members' progressive values. MoveOn will not promote the > petition beyond hosting it on our site. Click here if you think MoveOn > should support this petition." > > > > President Obama: Don't Strike Syria Without Congressional Approval > > > http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/president-obama-dont-18?source=c.url&r_by=1135580 > > > > So, if you think MoveOn should support this petition, why not tell them. > using the link above? > > Is the MoveOn objection to a miiitary strike, with or without > congressional approval, or to your condition that Obama first obtain > congressional approval for same? Have you learned in what way they don't > think the petition reflects "progressive values"? > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected]
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