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   From: cmoeller@cnn.com   
      
   ‘IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO SLEEPS IN THE WHITE HOUSE’: Rep. Emanuel   
   Cleaver, a Missouri Democrat who has been deeply skeptical of a   
   military strike against Syria, said he would listen to his   
   constituents before making a decision. And at a town meeting   
   Thursday night in Kansas City, he got an earful, ABC’s JEFF   
   ZELENY reports. For two hours Cleaver stood at the front of a   
   crowded room and listened to one person after another urge him   
   to oppose military action. He heard from the liberal left and   
   the Tea Party right — all with the same message, which one man   
   summed up succinctly: “My short answer to this is not no, but   
   hell no.” So what will Cleaver do? As of now, he’s one of many   
   House Democrats poised to vote no. Has anything in the   
   administration’s argument been persuasive? “No,” he told ABC   
   News after the meeting. “I listened to an official from the   
   administration yesterday and while he was certainly powerful in   
   his statements about why we should go alone, in terms of   
   striking targets in Syria, I don’t think he said anything   
   compelling.” When it comes to Syria, Cleaver ultimately said he   
   has to treat President Obama like he would President Bush: “It   
   doesn’t matter who sleeps in the White House,” he said.   
      
   Emanuel Cleaver is blacker than the ace of spades.   
      
         
      
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