Retire Obama or Retire the Constitution

New post on Doctor Bulldog & Ronin Retire Obama or Retire the Constitution by doctorbulldog An interesting editorial that I thought you all might enjoy: Will We Retire Obama—- or the Constitution? Arnold Ahlert - Friday, January 6, 2012 - Canada Free Press "When Congress refuses to act and as a result hurts our economy and puts people at risk, I have an obligation as president to do what I can without them." — President Barack Obama While I always identify the speaker of a quote, it is especially necessary this time. Why? Because if you remove the president's name from the statement, it becomes really easy to imagine any number of other people making it. For example, plug in Chinese president Hu Jintao, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, or Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Is there any doubt that any of these men would we more than willing to act, if they saw an "obligation" to do so, without the messy necessity of dealing with their respective legislative bodies? Remember when, right after the 2010 election, a lot of the media were wondering if Barack Obama was going to "move to the center" or practice the politics of "triangulation" that got Bill Clinton re-elected? Such musings are a testament to the self-inflicted blindness that affects far too many people who get paid to see through such nonsense. When this man was running in 2008, I implored Americans to understand that this country was divided by many issues, but first and foremost among those issues was a simple reality: there are those Americans who add up the plusses and minuses of the American experience and come to the conclusion that this country, warts and all, is still the best nation of earth — and the last, best hope of mankind. Then there are those Americans who engage in the same calculations and conclude that we are at best, just another country, and at worst, the nexus of all that is wrong in the world. Bewitched by the monumental load known as hope and change, Americans put the latter group in charge of running the nation. Read more of this post doctorbulldog | 6 January, 2012 at 12:14 pm | Categories: Abuse of Power, Editorial, Obama Sucks, politics | URL: http://wp.me/p1NPg-7vX Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/retire-obama-or-retire-the-constitution/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com

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