In a press conference on Monday, President Obama said, “I’d just remind conservative commentators that for years, what we’ve heard is the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or the lack of judicial restraint, that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. And I’m pretty confident that this court will recognize that and not take that step.” Obama went on to say that the court would take an “unprecedented, extraordinary step” if it overturns the law because it was passed by “a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.”
Set aside the fact that the House, despite a huge Democratic majority, passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by a margin of 219-212, hardly a “strong majority.” In fact, it barely qualifies as a plurality. Let’s turn instead to the substance of what the president said.
Obama, a former community organizer who is perhaps unaware of the finer points of the law, might want to acquaint himself with an obscure 19th century case, Marbury v. Madison, which established the doctrine of judicial review and grants federal courts the power to void acts of Congress that are in conflict with the Constitution. What Obama describes as “unprecedented” has, in fact, been done countless times since 1803.
Then there’s Obama’s confusion about judicial activism. It is not, as he insists, simply the act of overturning an existing law; it is when judges allow their personal views about public policy, and not the Constitution, to guide their decisions and often invent new rights out of thin air. For Justices to invalidate a law they deem to be unconstitutional is precisely what the Supreme Court is supposed to do. (“No legislative act … contrary to the Constitution, can be valid,” is how Alexander Hamilton put it in Federalist #78.) If one takes Obama’s words literally, he believes an unjust and unconstitutional law, if passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress, cannot be overturned.
What the president said, then, was so ill-informed, so ignorant, that people assumed he must know better. There’s no way we can know. But whatever the case, this has been quite a bad stretch for the president. His comments about the Supreme Court, when combined with his astonishingly dishonest attack on the House GOP budget (see here for more), portray a president who is living in a fantasy world — a place where facts and history are inverted, lies become truth, where everything is subordinated to ambition and you simply make things up as you go along. Nietzsche referred to this mindset as the “will to power.” In American politics it’s known as The Chicago Way.
I don’t know what the political effect of all this will be. But intellectually, this is the week where Barack Obama jumped the shark. In a deep, fundamental way, he is no longer a serious man. Nor an honest one. His public words are now purposefully bleached of truth. And that is a painful thing to have to say about an American president.
That happened a while ago. It's just that more people are beginning to notice.
"No longer a serious man"? Was he ever? The rhetoric of his 2008 campaign pretty much answers that question. Let’s compare. Churchill: “We shall fight on the beaches.” Reagan: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Obama: “We are the ones we've been waiting for.” n nSurely he can’t be serious.
And waiting, and waiting, and waiting for… n nThunder
No. He intellectually jumped the shark the moment he started his campaign for president in 2007 (or was it 2006)? He and his party intellectually jumped the shark years ago. Obama has been fundamentally dishonest, and his words "bleached of truth (nice phrase, by the way), for a long, long time. Peter Wehner just is noticing it in April of 2012.
"Nietzsche refferred to this mindset as the “will to power.” In American politics it’s known as The Chicago Way."__The real takeaway from BHO is this. He is not, nor has he ever been anything but an old school Chicago Democrat Hack. He cant run on his own record. The Repiblicans cant wait to run on HIS record. He has to runaway from hie record. This is ganna be the ugliest campaign in American History.
There’s no way we can know whether he knows better? If he did not know better, President Obama should demand a refund of his law school tuition, and should return the salary he was paid as a law school adjunct teaching constitutional law.
He had his fingers crossed.
… bleached of truth.____Insight of observers of Obama's narrative , provenance, dismissed as "birthers". Relevant information Obama successfully hid and continues to hide from the citizens he is in principle and law required to answer ____He appears unaware of Constitutional safeguards for citizens' rights in the Separation of Powers. Federal/State – 9th and 10th Amendments and Federal Government as three CO-EQUAL branches'. To assure none of the offices overstepping constitutional LIMITS to their lawful powers ____An end run by Congress, Judiciary or Executive is not good faith adherence to the oath to uphold and defend that Constitution. ____As Congress and Judiciary have looked the other way or rubberstamped Obama's abrogations of the Constitution,.he might believe few to rise up to counter his designs. His dishonest and threatening manipulation of the laws in his blitzkrieg through the Constitution._Can we now hope the USA remains a Constitutional Republic defended by those enjoined to uphold and defend that Constitution? Against all enemies foreign or domestic?
This can't be the same man who promised this : "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." n n
He had his fingers crossed then too.
"If one takes Obama’s words literally, he believes an unjust and unconstitutional law, if passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress, cannot be overturned." n nThe best part of this Supreme Court discussion is watching the education process unfold. As a practicing attorney, it has always been my understanding of liberal interpretation of the Constitution is intended to eliminate Constitutional restrictions on liberal policy perspectives. If you listen to Justice Breyer, you hear this analysis. If a majority passes a regulation under the commerce clause, it should not be overturned by the Court. The concept of the "living constitution" was developed in order to create the jurisprudence that would result in a reinterpretation of the Constitution in a manner that would not restrict liberal policy preferences. In other words, the Constitution, as a living document, is not meant to restrict Congress at all, unless the Bill of Rights is offended (other than the Second and the Tenth Amendments, of course). n nIn other words, the President is letting the mask slip here. Liberals just do not believe that Congress has limited powers, so in order to circumvent the clear reading of the text and the Constitution, they created an interpretation that allows them to read out the limited powers restrictions as needed in order to approve liberal policies that would otherwise be unconstitutional. The President has, in essence, let us all see that finally for what it is. n nThe problem is that liberals just do not believe in a federal government that does not have police powers, and so make constitutional arguments that lead to that result. They just do not believe in the Constitution as a limited grant from the people.
Agreed. Anyone that truly reads the Constitution sees that it was a mechanism put in place to keep Federal power in check. To keep it from getting so powerful that it can involve itself in our everyday lives. To regulate what we can read, watch, worship, write, eat, wear, drive, buy; you name it. Which is why liberals like Obama are about the only ones that will say that the Constitution is a 'flawed' document. To them, the only thing better than big government is bigger government.. nRonald Reagan perhaps said it best when he said that the nine words Americans should fear the most is "I'm from the government and I'm here to help".
Agreed, Posting101.r nr nOne thing must be corrected. You said: “Liberals just do not believe that Congress has limited powers.”r nr nWhat is true is this: Liberals just do not believe that when *they control Congress* that they should have limited powers.r nr nLiberals believe that they should have unlimited power any and all the time, and that any other party should “shut up and get in the back of the car.” To quote BO.
Well,we've always known that Barokeydoke wanted to "fundamentally transform" America….he wants to "fundamentally transform" SCOTUS into an adjunct arm of the Democrat party….so at least he's being intellectually consistent
and you forgot that his wife wanted to rewrite history.
Something to think about: n nPeter Wehner: …."a president who is living in a fantasy world — a place where facts and history are inverted, lies become truth, where everything is subordinated to ambition and you simply make things up as you go along."… n n n
I've always thought he was more a malignant narcissist, but I can accept psychopath.
I would suggest that it is possible he's even a very high functioning Asberger's patient. He has a statistical grasp of facts, he can deliver canned speeches, but on almost every interview he has a series of gaffes that seem to demonstrate a lack of emotional connection to the words he says. I've seen people like this. They can often be successful in fields where personal relationships aren't valued as much such as engineering and research. But for someone to be so insulated from the consequences of his speech shows that there are rich and powerful people willing to pull strings and shape reality just to have him where he is right now. That worries me.
I spend time around a number of children and adults with aspergers. I have seen no signs of aspergers in obama. I do see plenty of signs of narcissim.
BHO is a sociopath, not a psychopath. Sociopaths have absolutely no problem lying to anyone about anything.
We must rid ourselves of this dictatorial fraud in November
I love our pResident Chauncey Gardner and support him in all his endeavors. Pass the arugula please.
What took you so long? This was obvious way back during the 2008 campaign, but millions of people, including some on the right, tried as hard as they could to avoid what was in plain sight and make up something soothing, however delusional. How so many were fooled by such an obvious big government left winger, liar,and manipulator is what is stunning to me. And more than half the American population still doesn't see it. What's more, a new poll showed that about two-thirds of American Jews will vote for him…again. Does liberalism damage the brain? Or is it the soul? We are likely on our way to four more years of this, but it will be Obama unchained. As he wanted Putin to know, no more elections to worry about.
I agree totally. I said to myself three years ago that BHO had "jumped the shark" already. This is nothing new.
I don't know what is more horrifying. A second term for Obama, or the fact that we must depend on Mr. Mittens to beat him.
What the president said, then, was so ill-informed, so ignorant, that people assumed he must know better. n nWhat the president said, then, was so ill-informed, so ignorant, that people assumed he must know better. n nOf COURSE he knows better. Of COURSE he knows Marbury. But when your primary objective is to expand the power of the federal gubmint, the TRVTH and history and other niggling details take a back seat. n nStop giving him the rhetorical benefit of the doubt by assuming ignorance. He knows damn well what he's doing. It's about time everyone realized it.
"In a deep, fundamental way, he is no longer a serious man. Nor an honest one. His public words are now purposefully bleached of truth. And that is a painful thing to have to say about an American president."
Don't be so reticent. Tell us what you really think. Let it all hang out!
"In a deep, fundamental way, he is no longer a serious man. Nor an honest one. His public words are now purposefully bleached of truth. And that is a painful thing to have to say about an American president." n nIt's especially painful to see this "truth bleaching" lead us into two unfunded words and the establishment of an illegal torture regime. We are talking about Bush, right?
nice try … unfunded words, really ? … By the way which court declared our enhanced interrogation methods illegal ? I'll take unfunded wars over unfunded social programs everyday …
Easy folks, Mr. Wehner has been pounding away at the President for quite a long time. I think by invoking the phrase "jumped the shark" he is pointing out that Obama's credibility, always dubious at the very least to a minority of critical thinkers, has finally been completely lost to the masses in a spectacular way. Let's face it, we all kind of knew inside that Fonzie had lost his cool for many seasons of Happy Days but it took the spectacle of him leaping the shark tank in hot pants and a leather jacket to make us admit it publicly and proudly. Many "up your nose with a rubber hose" t-shirts went into the rag bag that day just as many Obama/Biden '08 bumper stickers are quietly peeling off of cars. Like the creators of the Fonz, Obama and his creators know no limits and have finally been driven to the point of gratuitous vulgarity like we saw on display this past week. And, by the way, does the President think that repeatedly insulting the Supreme Court is going to make them more likely to cooperate with him? He has tried this with Congress (Dems and Repubs) for years with no success. It is official, this man cannot get along with anyone. What a failure.
"Up your nose with a rubber hose" was Vinnie Barbarino. Know your sources, Jimmy Boy! Will up your cred. n nJohnny b n
Don't misunderestimate the damage a deranged man can do. While Ø has proven himself a dishonest man, he is still one with powerful friends and an unfinished agenda to destroy this nation, as we know it. His rant: "the GOP is fundamentally changing this nation", is code for the GOP righting the wrongs Ø has made.
"Then there’s Obama’s confusion about judicial activism. It is not, as he insists, simply the act of overturning an existing law; it is when judges allow their personal views about public policy, and not the Constitution, to guide their decisions and often invent new rights out of thin air. For Justices to invalidate a law they deem to be unconstitutional is precisely what the Supreme Court is supposed to do. " n nThis is a point that consistently eludes Michael Kinsley also.
NOW he isn’t “serious”? A bit late to the party, aren’t you Mr. Wehner?
The real point is that the Left as a whole has long jumped the shark. While you’d have been late to that party too (since 1918), it would have been a much more impressive position to take.
If that's "jumping the shark", it's not the first time. He made an almost as ridiculous (because of his timing) remark when he was announcing he was running for the Democratic nomination back in 2007. Just a few weeks after the Petrious hearings*, he declared America has never successfully intervened in a civil war. Has he ever heard of the "shores of Tripoli"? __*During the Petraious hearings, Petraious's career was extensively looked into. Any Senator (which Obama was at the time) who was serious about his job would have paid attention. Petraious was known for modernizing "The Small Wars Manuel" into a joint Army/Marine doctrine on Counter Insurgency. The Small Wars Manuel was based on lessons learned during successful counter insurgency campaigns in Central America known as the "Banana Wars," Obama should have known about these anyway but just a few weeks after the Petraius hearings was preposterous._
Someone who had a supermajority in Congress and couldn't pass a budget, who has had every political barrier removed for his benefit and who has effectively hidden his personal history from the public in opposition to historical offerings from every predecessor, has no right to be bitter. Just the fact that he claims to be a constitutional scholar and had no clue as to the content of "Marbury v. Madison" which is taught in HIGH SCHOOL CIVICS CLASSES demonstrates that he is either a phony or a liar. Either option is unacceptable as the POTUS.
I think you are painting too rosy a picture for this evil, chi-style thug politician. n nAnd what is really worth while, is the number of people responding to his nonsense is increasint as more people become active and stop accepting the media distortions. n nLiberals seem to think that in any dialogue/comments that they make they can use deception/ deflection and projection to miminalize those that they oppose and ignore facts. n nKeep up the good work
While I have always disagreed strongly with Barack Obama about the proper extent of government involvement in American society, I had always liked him personally. He seemed to be a decent guy to me. n nUnfortunately, I no longer feel that way, I now think that he is a self-righteous, self-absorbed liar. For the sake of our country, I pray that we have the good sense to remove him from office.
unfortunately, like the fonze, this moron could last another four years after the episode said shark was jumped. that's because socialists don't cared if you disagree, hate, or try to ignore the issues. they will continue to push them down your throat. no, he has to go into the tank and given over the the teeth. period. nsuibne
He wasn't chosen editor of Law Review. He was President of Law Review. That is a popularity contest only.
Hugh Hewitt once had a Harvard Law Review contemporary of Obama on. She indicated that everyone at the time knew there were affirmative members of Harvard Law Review at the time, but were not informed who they were. She added that entry was based on a combination of 70% grade and 30% writing / speaking or vice versa
you people are ridiculous with the censoring. n
you can't allow obama to stay on the air, like the fonze did, for years after jumping the shark. he has to go in the tank. teeth and all. nsuibne
yeah, well, you still made me delete half the post. n
So how did we elect a man without any substantive accomplishment to his name, who was effectively running for Prom King of America?
Bush Derangement Syndrome.
As a few posters have pointed out here, Obama was never a serious man. Indeed mentally, intellectually he was a sophomoric college student still living in his college dorm room back in the '80s, desperately trying to undo the last 30 years of American prosperity and prominence. nIt's just that it took all too many people this long to realize that fact.
My only response to the last paragraph of the post is "ignorance must be bliss." Those of us who have been paying attention since Rush Limbaugh said "I hope he fails" have been in ever colder sweats about what Mr. "Fundamentally Change" Obama, or whoever he is, would do to our country. Thank God he turned out to be as lazy as the day is long; give me a preening despot over a driven despot when my future is at stake. Welcome to the land of the terrified Mr. Wehner.
The guy is inherently dishonest , a snake oil salesman. Why in the world would anyone vote for this fraud? Please, America, wake up and get this guy out of office before he inflicts permanent damage to the country. Who the hell in their right mind votes for this socialist anyway!
This is a fight about the utopian vision of the Left and the Direction of History. People who buy into the Left's vision will vote for Obama. They number nearly half the population.
I did not think it was possible to have bigger, more pathological liars than the Clintons & Al Gore, but once again the Democrat party delivers a new high-water mark for most lies in size of the lies, in volume, and in frequency. n nTotalitarian socialism is founded on lies. Sharpton, Ayers, Farrakahn, Kerry, Pelosi, the whole lot of them. There is no truth, no facts, no logic, no argument in liberal fascism. It's all lies, all the time . For the most part Democrats can count on an uninformed and misinformed electorate because the corporate media propaganda machine spread liberal lies 24-7. But cracks are appearing in the liberal fascist monolith . The lies the fraud and the corruption are too heavy . Socialism is collapsing worldwide.
That's right on the money._ nObamacare is the high water mark of limousine libreralism, and will be struck down by the Supreme Court. It is the end of The Triumph of Therapy, as noted in 63 by Philip Reiff, or the dictatorial powerlust inherent in socialism, as pointed out by Solzhenitsyn and others. Obama's recent temper tantrum about the Supreme Court shows his childish frustration at the way the American people are waking up and sweeping "intellectuals" like him from power. He is an example of the danger of a halfway educated man that Harvard and Columbia should be ashamed to produce.
The law is constitutional, thereby negating all of this blather. It's like all of you folks just heard the term "jumping the shark" and thought you were really smart for recognizing what it means. In actuality, it's apparent that none of you know what it means. Now, if Obama is down by 20 points on November 4th, and he comes out with a half-baked idea to revamp social security…that would be jumping the shark.
And yet Intrade have him at around 61% chance of re-election. Romney is trailing him in just about all the battleground states. Really Wehner is going to have to move beyond this standard ODS stuff. Sure it appeals to the Republican base but in the real world. Please.
This article is ridiculous. You take one comment without any explaining context and just assume that Obama is an idiot because the comment you chose doesn't have the specifics to back up what he's saying. n nObama is saying it would be judicial activism because it would be stuck down by the court because of political reasons. The five justices appointed by republicans would vote against it and the 4 appointed by democrats would vote for it. Sounds like politics not law. n nThe reason it would be "unprecedented" to strike down this law is because for the last hundred years the courts have given congress broad powers to regulate interstate commerce under the commerce clause. Health Care is about as interstate as commerce gets.
Your comment is ridiculous. That's not what Obama said at all. And if he had, it would have been even more ignorant than what he did say. n nLeaving aside your silly assertion that health care "is about as interstate as commerce gets," the issue is not health care. The issue is the mandate and whether Congress can make a law to create commerce where none previously existed by requiring people to purchase a particular product/service from the private sector even when they don't want it. In any event, health care issues are within the Constitutional purview of the states as is insurance regulation.
You're right of course, but alas you're chum in the water in this feeding frenzy of Obama hatred.
Why can't more people see Obama for what he really is — The Grinning Evil?
Only comments that agree with the right-wing crazies are posted on this site. That's interesting.
I find it curious that posts like yours, liberal responses that is, are not about the facts, but mean spirited personal attacks. That is not good debate policy. If you'd like to disagree in a rational manner, please debate some of the above issues, such as the power of the Supreme Cort to declare laws unconstitutional, etc.
BHO policies/actions are as limited as his intelligence (limited and unknown but most likely a 3.2 gpa). He single threads priorities and actions. His knowledge of the Constitution is not even at elementary Grade level. It is all about him and the rest of us be dammed (and we will be). Yes, since 1900 we have become more socialistic each day and less a free economy this ObamaCare is truly a turning point and he will make that turn regardless of the law of the land or its people for he is the u201cChosen Oneu201d as he has been told since his special birth in a land far away. All we can now do is u201chopeu201d we can u201cchangeu201d this preordained future.
In a second term, B.O. will have more "flexibility" to disband the court system and become America's first banana republic King. n nAfter all what is the point of having a third branch of government, if the Court must always just rubber stamp the actions of the other two? n nAccording to B.O., the brilliant Constitutional scholar, if the court doesn't agree with him, then it represents "judicial activism". What a clueless, arrogant tool.
If Obama is "…a president who is living in a fantasy world — a place where facts and history are inverted, lies become truth, where everything is subordinated to ambition and you simply make things up as you go along." Then that reviled place is the "DbYaGOPesphere".
It's common knowledge that the not-overwhelming vote was due to the real desire for serious health care reform, instead of the gift-to-insurance companies that we got. nBut Republican obstructionism being what it is, that's all we get… for now.
No, the Democrats had no desire for serious health care reform. They did have a serious desire to take control of health care, but this remarkable piece of crap legislation was as close as they were able to get. The honest among them admit the goal is a single-payer, government-run health care system and their hope is ObamaCare will create such chaos in the private insurance market that public options and eventually Medicare For All will follow.
Hi,
Would you please do an article on Obama’s promises to the American voter before his election & compare it to what he has done or not done in the past 4 years?
I wonder why Presidents do their utmost to nominate Justices they believe will uphold laws they get through Congress. n nObama may have missed Marbury v Madison, but he did cite Lochner "a case from the 30s" – really Lochner v New York, which was a state, not Federal case, and from 1905. n nWhen he mentioned Lochner, the audience was supposed to gasp in admiration for his awesome grasp of Constitutional Law. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with the health-care law.
*smiling*
pretty good week, I thought …… 
This is campaign time and campaign rhetoric. If the SCOTUS does whack Obamacare, he is planning to make a really big deal with his liberal base about how he needs to be reelected to ensure no more "conservative activist" judges on the bench. For starters, Bader Ginsburg won't last another term, and Kennedy, Scalia, and Breyer will be pushing it. n nEvery liberal sees what's at stake when you look at decisions like Bush v. Gore and Citizens United; an overturning of Obamacare will just stoke the fear. This parsing of a stump speech like it was a legal argument is ridiculous. Obama may not be a Learned Hand, but he's a damn fine politician and political opponents underestimate him at their peril.
A "damn fine politician" just united the Republican party against him. Republicans were in a circular firing squad that Obama has now interrupted. Anyone But Obama is going to be the rallying cry. n nI don't underestimate the left's desire to win at any cost or their friends in the media. Without the msm Obama would be a ward captain in Hyde Park. n n
Granny, see things for what they are. The Republican Party, particularly the hardline conservative Evangelical base, never stopped loathing Obama. They were just temporarily distracted during the primaries by their inability to coalesce around a single extremist. So now the party has Romney, or Obama lite. n n"Anyone But Obama" has been the Republican Party's rallying cry for almost 4 years now, and it didn't do much good last time. It's always a swell idea to piss off women, Latinos, blacks, and practically everyone else who's not "conservative" just before a general election. Smart politics is not the GOP's hallmark these days.
I was kidding about the part about Obama never being more than a ward captain. It's unfortunate that you aren't kidding because then I could think up some excuse for why you sound like a bigot. n nListen to any conservative talk show. Go to Free Republic. Two days ago it was anti-Romney 24/7. Not anymore. Thanks, Obama, " a damn fine politician" according to you, for bringing the focus back to you. n nSmall minds can't always see the big picture.
Okay, we'll see. n nBTW, I don't get the "bigot" thing, but don't bother explaining.
he wasnt' editor – he was president of harvard law review – which is more of a ceremonial position than functional of an editor. those on the review at the time said he almost never showed up for meetings.
Nice post.
A fine defined column but….will any of this affect the masses that still get all their news from the MSM? It seems that the Dems just use their old playbooks and the media eats it up and polls show that in some battleground states. It is interesting that today, RAS. has Obama a -17 approval. or dis-approval depending on you bias. Yet, the media is crowing how Obama is moving toward re-election.
It would be great if the masses got their news from the MSM. Unfortunately, they get their political insight and opinions from 30-second spots between segments of reality shows.
Well, I hate to break it to you, but he never was an honest man. Certainly not in the entire time I've followed his career in Illinois. I will grant that at one time he was more honest; when he was open about his marxist beliefs before seeking high office.
What, a "jumped the shark" article and nothing about Obama's claim to have a fantasy "hoodie" son? In the same week he let loose his ignorance of the Constitution and his contempt for honest budget debate, he also dredged up his racial grievances last played out on the national stage in Gates' arrest in 2009, another case where he threw lighter fluid on the fire without bothering to get the facts first. n nAnd people called Bush a cowboy for going off half-cocked.
Obama is not a Constitutional scholar, he is a Critical Legal Studies scholar. He shares the marxist critique of the Constitution as a white, male, property-owning patriarchal artifact of the 18th Century ruling class. He does not respect the document, nor his oath to uphold it.
Marbury v Madison may be an 18th century case but it is not obscure. Every first year law school student takes Constitutional Law and spends days learning about this case.
I can't wait to vote in November.
When the most liberal Senator in the US Senate ran as a moderate in 2008, it did not occur to you that he might be lying to get elected? n nWhen Obama promised us "if we liked our health plans we could keep them no matter what" and he passed Obamacare that incents corporations to dump their health plans, it did not occur to you he was lying? n nWhen Obama blames everyone else for anything that goes wrong, does it not occur to you that he is either lying, delusional or both?
This is a rediculous demand. Educational records are confidential. How many politicians publish their grades. The man graduated with honors from Harvard Law and was adjunct faculty at the U of Chicago. That does not happen unless you are a pretty damn good lawyer. I am a conservative republican but even I am beginning to get queasy at some of the blatant racism that people like you are spouting. It is am embarrassment to the party of Lincoln to have people like you claiming to be supporters. Go back to voting democrat and wearing your KKK robes. Obama should be attacked for his views and his actions and policies. It does not help things to have people going around to attacking his character, religion, honesty or intelligence. Such ad-homonym attacks are the kind of thing that democrats do and which any republican should be ashamed of. They have led american politics into the gutter but we don't have to jump in after them.
Talk about "rediculous ad-homonym."
"It does not help things to have people going around to attacking his character, religion, honesty or intelligence." n nThe above quote could have come right out of John McCain 2008 campaign playbook. Thinking such as this has led the Republican party to glorious yet principled defeat on many occasions. Thanks for that. It is, by the way, an embarrassment to offer such puffed up indignation peppered with spelling and grammatical errors. n nThere is nothing ridiculous about demanding that the leader of our country be vetted…publicly. And yes, that includes his educational records. If the man is going to continue to use his rather thin resume as justification for the supposed wisdom of his policies then he needs to substantiate it. n nFurther, it is not possible to separate his character, religion, honesty or intelligence from his views, actions and policies. They are hopelessly intertwined and must be considered in toto in order to have a complete understanding of the man. Try not to be so ridiculously naive. n nTry also to use paragraphs.
George Bush, Al Gore, and John Kerry all made their grades public, just to name a few._I seriously doubt you're a conservative Republican at all. Your post is filled with the code-speak catch phrases of the tyrannical left. Nice try, comrade.
it seems to me that I remember Bush's grades, or at least some of them, being published and the MSM insisting that they be made known. Look it up. Since it is Obama, of course, the MSM made no such demands. Knowing what a narcissist Obama is, I would think he couldn't wait to show off his grades if they were good since he thinks he is the greatest person to walk the face of the earth. Since he hasn't been waving them in our faces, I can't help but to think they must not be all that great.
There are an amazing amount of armchair psychiatrists on this forum, is thing something people on the right are interested in?. All of whom are more than confident they have the President pegged down as one of the following: n- Narcissist (malignant or non-malignant?) n- Pscyopath n- Sociopath n- Just plain evil n- Arrogant n nI'm impressed actually, given none of these people have met him, yet claim to understand the man so well.
Scary to think this guy actually "taught" Constitutional Law…
I don't care what psychobabble pigeon hole anyone describes BHO with. He just needs to be out of office on January 20 of next year.
Actually, the current version didn’t pass the House. It was “deemed passed” because Queen Nancy knew it wouldn’t pass.
Vote this turkey out in November!