In a press conference today Obama basically stated that his taking actions as a dictator is democratic:
President Obama threatened to write his own laws through executive orders while claiming “that’s how democracy works.”Responding to the Republican takeover of Congress yesterday, Obama said he will use executive orders if Congress doesn’t pass bills he wants to sign into law.
“I’m pretty sure I’ll take some actions that some in Congress will not like,” he said. “That’s natural.”
“That’s how our democracy works.”
Obama singled out amnesty for illegals in particular, stating that if Congress passes an immigration bill which allows millions of illegal aliens to stay in the U.S., his executive actions will disappear.
“You send me a bill that I can sign, and those executive actions go away,” he said.
Obama is equating dictatorship with democracy.
“The president’s taste for unilateral action to circumvent Congress should concern every citizen, regardless of party or ideology,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) wrote in an op/ed in January. “The great 18th-century political philosopher Montesquieu observed: ‘There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates.’”
“America’s Founding Fathers took this warning to heart, and we should too.”
The father of the Constitution, James Madison, spoke about the dangers of an executive holding legislative power in the Federalist Papers No. 47.
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny,” he wrote.
Even if Obama wasn’t equating a dictatorship with democracy, he still believes that the U.S. was founded as a democracy, which is false; it was founded as a republic.
“Democracy is the ‘direct’ rule of the people and has been repeatedly tried without success,” states a U.S. Army training manual from 1928. “Our Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a representative republican form of government.”
“They made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had founded a republic.”
In other words, the Founding Fathers feared a democracy in which the birth rights of the minority could be voted away by the majority, so they founded a republic meant to protect the rights of all.
But Obama has surpassed their greatest fears by turning the presidency into an autocracy which can whittle away the republic – and the birth rights of all – through executive orders.
Seems some people never said the pledge of allegiance , or never paid attention to the words. Shame.
This guy is so clueless. He will destroy the Democratic Party.
One day his world will come crashing down. I think he is nearly insane.
Time to impeach the dictator wannabe.
Bea Lee from what I’ve research the plan to infiltrate the USA was planned decades ago. They say his DNA is Muslim & White very little black 6% from what I’ve learned you must be 12% to be considered black. So I believe he used his skin pigment to manipulate the world, as the first Black Potus. And he’s illegal. Used several aliases 5 over the years. Moved over 40x in less then 10 yrs. Used a few SS#. The Qu’ran states” The Muslims Will Rule the World “. Theyre in Europe, many countries causing same thing like USA. That’s the Change. I just don’t see him( them) walking away now. He could call for Martial law & sit indefinitely in DC. He must be stopped!! They will NOT take OUR COUNTRY. 238 YEARS BLOOD, SWEAT,DEATH TEARS, & SACRIFICE.!!! IT’S ONLY TOOK HIM 6 TO ALMOST DESTROY US
( SIGH) GOD BE WITH US !! BLESSINGS!
Congress needs to strip the president of his executive powers now!
if we do not learn from our history then we are damned to repeat it.
Bless his heart. Poor man had lost his little pea picking mind.
Not hardly
Barry, I can’t wait to see you arrested, prosecuted, convicted and executed!