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The U.S. Constitution and law. Whooptie-do. I mean, they are just scraps of paper. They shouldn’t restrict the world’s leader as he sends the American military around the globe to do good. Only a small-minded politician would point out that he is violating his oath of office.
So much for the president who as a candidate promised that HE, unlike his predecessor, wouldn’t violate the law.
Arguing that American support for the NATO mission is protecting civilians from forces loyal to Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi, Mr. Obama chided critics for focusing on procedural issues and said the welfare of the Libyan people is his paramount concern.
“We have engaged in a limited operation to help a lot of people against one of the worst tyrants in the world, somebody who nobody should want to defend,” Mr. Obama told reporters in a wide-ranging news conference in the White House’s East Room. “And this suddenly becomes the cause celebre for some folks in Congress? Come on.”
“A lot of this fuss is politics,” he added.
Of course. It’s just politics.
It’s an extraordinary, but not unexpected, spectacle. A president believes that he is ordained by God to do whatever he sees fit, free from the pesky limits of the Constitution and later laws passed by Congress. And if anyone criticizes him, it is because they are defending one of the worst tyrants in the world.
A tyrant which the administration had no problem dealing with in its first two years and which it considered supporting with military assistance.
Congress needs to make clear to President Obama that he is not God, a monarch, or the American equivalent of North Korea’s Great Leader. He is the elected chief executive in a constitutional republic, and he is bound by the law, just like the rest of us.
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Timothy L. Pennell| 6.30.11 @ 7:52AM
Who cares about the TRUTH, when you've got a sycophantic Media, that worships the ground you walk on?
David W| 6.30.11 @ 8:35AM
Perhaps someone should ask him during his upcoming plethora of campaign stops (God knows he won't be doing any real work over the next year or so) the following questions:
1) do you believe that the Constitution is the law of the land?
2) do you believe that you, as president, are to uphold the law regardless of your personal feelings?
3) do you believe that anyone in your admin who violates the law (whether they are convicted in a court of law or not) should resign
4) do you believe that the president is above the law?
5) do you believe that the Legislative and Judicial branches of the government (Congress and Supreme Court in case he doesn't know) provide proper checks and balances against his "desires"?
We'll probably see him um and ah and stammer as he tries to answer these questions (which his predecessor would have little trouble answering).
JP| 6.30.11 @ 9:10AM
We're engaged in a limited operation which involves billions of dollars in aircraft and ships, predator drone missles, cruise missles, and who knows how many special operations personnel and CIA operators. Remove the drones, and re-arranges some assetts and this sounds very much like Somalia circa 1993. And we know how that turned out.
squalis| 6.30.11 @ 9:22AM
Critics of The One also open themselves up to the absurd charge of being a racist. Don't forget that oldie.
Stan Redmond| 6.30.11 @ 10:11AM
Obama has declared his disdain for the constitution many times. There's no surprise
Oldefarte| 6.30.11 @ 12:38PM
There are things called IMPEACHMENT within the powers of congress also, but there are also what's known as DEMOCRATS that too exist, so maybe POLITICAL CORRECTNESS toward THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT is warranted in some circles, no???????????
Controse| 6.30.11 @ 2:11PM
BO is not the only one who is in violation of the Constitution. Every member of Congress is in violation every time the sun goes down without them initiating impeachment. They are sworn to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic. If he isn't an enemy of the Constitution there is no such thing as an enemy of the Constitution.