Obama and that Pesky Constitution

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volinbham

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How many times has he made this type comment - he's being held back by the system.

Obama On Being President: "You Get Better As Time Goes On" | RealClearPolitics

What's frustrated people is that I have not been able to force Congress to implement every aspect of what I said in 2008.

Well, it turns out our Founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change that I would like sometimes. But what I have been able to do is move in the right direction. And what I'm going to keep on doing is plot away, very persistent. You know what? One of the things about being President is you get better as time goes on.
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Seems to be a constant message with him. Interesting how he's claiming that's what frustrates people - not his policies.
 
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volinbham said:
Seems to be a constant message with him. Interesting how he's claiming that's what frustrates people - not his policies.
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he's obviously hellbent on making congress the bogeyman he's running against in 2012. It amazes me how he can get away with glossing over the fact that the first two years of his term were spent with the most favorable congress imaginable for a sitting President.
 
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I dislike the smiley, but it is how I feel when I read **** like this

:banghead2:
 
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It's like he doesn't realize that the Republicans were elected for the very specific purpose of blocking his agenda.
 
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There are any number of things wrong with this statement including his failure to try to work with Congress - even Dems complain about it, his further expansion of E-power, his 2 years of D control, etc. etc.

But as GA says - it's his election ploy to blame his failures on Congress just as he's blamed everything on just about anything.

Deep down though, I believe he does feel that things would be better if he could do as he pleases without Constitutional restraint. That's the part that worries me.
 
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volinbham said:
How many times has he made this type comment - he's being held back by the system.

Obama On Being President: "You Get Better As Time Goes On" | RealClearPolitics



Seems to be a constant message with him. Interesting how he's claiming that's what frustrates people - not his policies.
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I think you are blowing this way out of proportion. He's not saying he's against those checks and balances, more of a folksy observation. In fact quite tongue in cheek.

Thread fails miserably.
 
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lawgator1 said:
I think you are blowing this way out of proportion. He's not saying he's against those checks and balances, more of a folksy observation. In fact quite tongue in cheek.

Thread fails miserably.
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It may be tongue in cheek, but you can't deny that he's deflecting like crazy.

I still go back to what I posted earlier. He's been in office for 3 years. How can he play this card when 2 of those years he had a Democratic House and a supermajority in the Senate?
 
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lawgator1 said:
I think you are blowing this way out of proportion. He's not saying he's against those checks and balances, more of a folksy observation. In fact quite tongue in cheek.

Thread fails miserably.
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What fails miserably are fools that skirt the issue by pretending he is being jovial.
 
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GAVol said:
It may be tongue in cheek, but you can't deny that he's deflecting like crazy.

I still go back to what I posted earlier. He's been in office for 3 years. How can he play this card when 2 of those years he had a Democratic House and a supermajority in the Senate?
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Denial of a meglomaniac
 
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volinbham said:
There are any number of things wrong with this statement including his failure to try to work with Congress - even Dems complain about it, his further expansion of E-power, his 2 years of D control, etc. etc.

But as GA says - it's his election ploy to blame his failures on Congress just as he's blamed everything on just about anything.

Deep down though, I believe he does feel that things would be better if he could do as he pleases without Constitutional restraint. That's the part that worries me.
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+1
 
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OrangeEmpire said:
Splain
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Issa yoke based on este dicho:

At the convention, which scrapped rather than amended the Articles of Confederation, as had been promised, Hamilton laid out his grand plan: A permanent president who would appoint the governors of each state, and who would, through his state-level puppets, have veto power over all state legislation. A national government with the president given essentially the powers of a king is what he advocated. It was all rejected, of course, when the convention spurned Hamilton's nationalism and adopted a federal system of government instead, with only a few powers delegated to the central government by the sovereign states, mostly for foreign affairs. Hamilton subsequently denounced the new constitution as "a frail and worthless fabric."
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The Founding Father of Constitutional Subversion by Thomas DiLorenzo
 
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Get used to it... will likely be repeated much more often as we approach election time.
 
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CNN Transcript - Newsday: Transition of Power: President-Elect Bush Meets With Congressional Leaders on Capitol Hill - December 18, 2000

The meetings were described as cordial, but Mr. Bush made it very clear both publicly and privately that he believes that he was elected president because of the things he campaigned on. That's an analysis the Democrats disagree with. They say this election was a tie -- Frank.
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If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.
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...nothing to see here. Obama is no different.
 
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I think anyone who watches that and thinks he is actually saying that the Constitution should not apply to him or his proposals is simply being a partisan retard.
 
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