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February 14, 2012 @ 10:34 am
Obama hates the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. He has said he finds them too confining. Duh! That is so the people can be protected from tyrants like Obama. He wants absolute power.
IMPEACH OBAMA NOW! ! ! ! ! !
February 22, 2012 @ 5:17 pm
What alternate plane of reality are you from?
February 22, 2012 @ 5:43 pm
honestlypeople, You are the one in the alternate reality. Obama said He finds the Constitution too confining. He thinks that he is King of America. Take off those rose colored glasses and see the truth.
IMPEACH OBAMA NOW! ! ! !
February 22, 2012 @ 9:08 pm
OK, so it’s obvious you have an intrinsic dislike for the President, but when and where did he ever describe the constitution as “too confining,” and in what context?
Why do you believe he thinks he is King of America? Because he believes in equal rights and freedom of religion, and is willing to exercise the authority he has to ensure Americans are not denied these rights?
I just took off my rose colored glasses and, well, what do you know, my investment portfolio is still up 12% this year, I still have a good job, and, for the most part, I don’t have the government mucking around in my personal affairs. Seems pretty rosey to me.
February 23, 2012 @ 10:16 am
homestyle Obama said it in an interview before he became President. he also told the Russian president the Constitution is dead. I can’t send you too the article as it has now got a Trojan horse imbedded in it. I have sent an email too someone who can help find it. I do remember him saying it in an interview before he became president.
Until then you should read about Obama’s idea to rewrite the constitution. If he doesn’t find the constitution too confining. Why would he want it rewritten?
IMPEACH OBAMA NOW! ! ! ! !
February 23, 2012 @ 12:16 pm
What are your sources for these claims? An alleged Kremlin report and an inflammatory ultra conservative fundraising website with no accountability? Seriously, you need to research these things before you build your belief system around them. I’m ready to listen, but you’ve got to cite reputable sources.
February 23, 2012 @ 3:20 pm
honestlypeople What the he77 are you talking about. “An alleged Kremlin report and an inflammatory ultra conservative fundraising website with no accountability?” Where did you get this out of what I have written? I can tell you I either saw it on NBC or ABC the only news I watch.
Your last comment is bigotry statement. I’m still looking for that article. I will find it but until then here is one for you to read: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2008/11/03/barack-obamas-poor-understanding-of-the-constitution
IMPEACH OBAMA NOW! ! ! ! ! !
February 23, 2012 @ 3:34 pm
I forgot to mention I also watch NPR news. Also the actual interview was done at wbez 91.5 in 2001 and the original interview has been removed from both YouTube and public radio station wbez 91.5. I will find the entire interview.
Don’t you think removing an interview of a future president would still be available? funny it hidden like the rest of Obama’s records?
First President to refuse to show a valid birth certificate.
First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student then denies he was a foreigner.
First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
First President to preside over a cut to the credit rating of the United States.
First President to violate the War Powers Act.
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .
First President to defy a Federal Judges court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
First President to spend a trillion dollars on shovel-ready jobs and later admit there was no such thing as shovel-ready jobs.
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with criminal convictions.
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
First President to terminate Americas ability to put a man in space.
First President to encourage racial discrimination and intimidation at polling places.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly speak-out on the reasons for their rate increases.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state they are allowed to locate a factory.
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN)
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 Czars to replace elected officials in his office.
First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office.
First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
First President to coddle American enemies while alienating America’s allies.
First President to publicly bow to Americas enemies while refusing to salute the U.S. Flag.
First President to go on multiple global apology tours.
First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends, paid for by the taxpayer.
First President to refuse to wear the U.S. Flag lapel pin.
First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000.00 a year at taxpayer expense.
First President to repeat the Holy Qur’an. Openly admit the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
1. The individual mandate
No list of President Obama’s constitutional violations would be complete without including the requirement that every American purchase health insurance, on penalty of civil fine. The individual mandate is unprecedented and exceeds Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce. If it is allowed to stand, Congress will be able to impose any kind of economic mandate as part of any kind of national regulatory scheme. Fortunately, the Supreme Court has a chance to strike this down during its current term.
2. Medicaid coercion
The Court will also be taking up Obamacare’s massive intrusion on federal-state relations in the form of a coercive Medicaid expansion. The law compels states to drastically increase their Medicaid expenditures and reorganize their health care bureaucracies, on penalty of losing all (not just additional) Medicaid funds. No state contemplated such a program when it signed onto Medicaid — Arizona was the last to join, in 1982 — and now no state can afford to withdraw. Indeed, even if some withdrawal mechanism existed, withdrawn states’ taxpayers would still be funding complying states’ Medicaid programs. As the Supreme Court held in South Dakota v. Dole, there comes a point when “the financial inducement offered by Congress might be so coercive as to pass the point at which pressure turns into compulsion.”
3. The Independent Payment Advisory Board (a.k.a. “The Death Panel”)
IPAB is the group of 15 presidential appointees who, beginning in 2014, are tasked with reducing Medicare spending. Any decisions IPAB makes automatically become law that can only be overridden by a three-fifths majority vote in the Senate. Unlike other federal agencies, IPAB is subject to no external review — no public notification in advance of proposed rules or opportunity for comment, no administrative guidelines and no judicial review. Medicare comprises about 13 percent of the federal budget, so that’s an awesome amount of power for Congress to delegate to unelected executive-branch bureaucrats. Indeed, it’s so basic a violation of traditional separation of powers that there’s no historical analog. The Goldwater Institute has filed a strong lawsuit challenging this (yet another) unprecedented aspect of Obamacare, which will continue wending its way through the lower courts regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on the individual mandate and Medicaid-coercion issues.
4. The Chrysler bailout
Building on the Bush administration’s illegal use of TARP funds to bail out the auto industry, the Obama administration bullied Chrysler’s secured creditors — who were entitled to “absolute priority” — into accepting 30 cents on the dollar, while junior creditors such as labor unions received much more. This subversion of creditor rights violates not just bankruptcy law but also the Constitution’s Takings and Due Process Clauses. This blatant crony capitalism — government-directed industrial policy to help political insiders — discourages investors and generally undermines confidence in American rule of law.
5. Dodd-Frank
Intended to remedy weaknesses in the U.S. financial system — ensuring transparency and accountability — the Dodd-Frank financial “reform” empowered unlimited, unreviewable and often secret bureaucratic discretion. The administrative bodies the legislation created face no constraints on the exercise of arbitrary authority. For example, the Treasury Department now has broad and essentially unchecked power to seize banks and other financial entities that it determines are unsound but “too big to fail.” The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Financial Stability Oversight Council, meanwhile, craft, execute and interpret their own law. Due process and separation of powers issues abound.
6. The deep-water drilling ban
Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Interior Department issued a blanket six-month moratorium on new oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. A federal judge struck down that moratorium as arbitrary and capricious, but the government issued a new order to replace the one that was struck down. That order was subsequently withdrawn, but the judge was so shocked by the administration’s conduct that he found the government in civil contempt of court.
7. Political-speech disclosure for federal contractors
In April of this year, President Obama released a draft executive order (still pending) that would require businesses with federal contracts to disclose independent expenditures on federal elections (political speech independent of candidates and parties). This order is intended to undermine the Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision — allowing independent expenditures by corporations, unions and other associations — by discouraging federal contractors and their executives from engaging in political speech. Citizens United held that such expenditures do not enable the kind of quid pro quo corruption that campaign finance laws are allowed to regulate, so this draft executive order shows contempt for the First Amendment by chilling protected speech.
8. Taxing political contributions
Earlier this year, the IRS tried to muzzle political speech by asserting that donations to certain nonprofit advocacy groups (so-called 501(c)(4) organizations) would be subject to the gift tax. Historically, the IRS has not applied the gift tax in this way — donations to advocacy groups are not likely to be used to circumvent the estate tax — and when the IRS previously tried to tax political donations, it was rebuffed by the courts on the grounds that such transfers are not gifts (i.e., the donor is getting something in return). The IRS has since backed down, but the suspicion remains that it was trying to chill the political speech of those opposed to President Obama’s policies, in violation of the First Amendment.
9. Graphic tobacco warnings
Late last year, the FDA issued regulations requiring cigarette manufacturers to display graphic warnings on all packs of cigarettes that must cover at least 50% of the packaging and graphically portray tobacco-related illnesses. These warnings violate the First Amendment because the government is compelling the cigarette manufacturers to discourage their customers from buying their lawful products. Last month, a federal judge blocked the new regulation, which was due to go into effect in January, but the administration is appealing.
10. Health care waivers
The Department of Health and Human Services has granted nearly 2,000 waivers to employers seeking relief from Obamacare’s onerous regulations. Nearly 20 percent of these waivers went to gourmet restaurants and other businesses in Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco district. Nevada, home to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, got a blanket waiver, while Republican-controlled states like Indiana and Louisiana were denied. Even beyond the unseemly political favoritism, such arbitrary dispensations violate a host of constitutional and administrative law provisions ranging from equal protection to the “intelligible principle” required for congressional delegation of authority to cabinet agencies. Unlike 17th-century English monarchs, American presidents were not granted dispensing powers: As we’ve seen, the power to suspend a legal requirement can and will be used to arbitrarily favor the politically connected. Moreover, most of these waivers were never authorized by Congress in the first place!
February 23, 2012 @ 8:22 pm
The usnews article you cite is an opinion piece. I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you understand what that means. Also, to suggest that you not build your belief system around unverified and unverifiable information is not bigotry. I also believe that most of the points in your lengthy post above are not correct.
February 23, 2012 @ 8:48 pm
Also, I hope that everyone reading this is aware that the lengthy post above was copied and pasted from another opinion piece that has been replicated a number of times in other, similar, conservative echo chambers.
Will someone please engage me in a meaninful debate?
February 24, 2012 @ 8:42 am
honestlypeople The above are facts not an opinion piece as you seem to think. Obama has done all the items listed above. Those are facts not opinion. You are clueless and a bigot. Look the word up because I’m tired of providing the definition to people like you.
As for you trying to sway other people who read this. They are not fooled by your liberal propaganda.
IMPEACH OBAMA NOW! ! ! !
February 24, 2012 @ 10:04 am
Your post was plagiarized from an editorial (opinion piece) written by Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. Read it again and tell me if you think it is objective. Again, suggesting that you rigorously evaluate the sources of the information upon which you form your own opinion does not make me a bigot. (I am well aware of what that word means, and based on what little I know about you from this exchange, you seem to fit the definition to a tee)
I think everyone needs to develop their critical thinking skills. Read more, listen more. Question your own assumptions. Be aware of the habits of mind so you can avoid their pitfalls. Expose yourself to a broader experience.
You may be surprises to learn that I’m not a liberal, so you probably don’t know who you are talking about when you say “people like you.”
February 24, 2012 @ 10:13 am
honestlypeople, you don’t have a clue to the meaning of objectivity means and you need to follow your own advice.
IMPEACH OBAMA NOW! ! ! ! ! ! !
February 24, 2012 @ 10:33 am
I’m afraid I have a keen understanding of the meaning of objectivity in a number of senses. In this case, it is objectivity that differentiates journalism from opinion.
I follow my own advice every day. I also maintain an open mind to the advice of others.
February 24, 2012 @ 11:18 am
honestlypeople, the only thing you have is a biased liberal view point. There is no objectivity in your comments. It also appears that other who are reading you comments disagree with you also.
Prove the “First” I posted above are not true. You can’. Go ahead and try to your little minds content. He has done all those things and more.
IMPEACH OBAMA NOW! ! ! ! ! !
February 24, 2012 @ 12:31 pm
Challenge accepted.
The “firsts” part of your posting apparently came from a chain e-mail of unknown origin titled “Obama’s 32-month report card.” Politifact did a spot check of it and gave it their coveted “pants on fire” rating, basically meaning that it is patently false.
You can read a detailed breakdown of each point at http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/obama-report-card.htm
In case you are too busy, I’ll summarize their findings:
69% of the claims were deemed either fiction, too vague to investigate, unproven, or disputed. 20% are under investigation. And 11% were deemed true, but among these were ones like “first president to have a law signed by auto-pen without being present. The law being signed was the extension of the patriot act.
I have no biased liberal viewpoint, and I’m doing my best not to attack you personally. I just want everyone to make sure they are not making important decisions based on faulty or distorted information. Don’t rely on chain emails, editprials, and talk radio to give you a clear picture of your world. Don’t be a puppet; learn and explore. Be curious and open-minded.
February 24, 2012 @ 1:01 pm
honestlypeople, First the link you provided is a liberal web site. Second Obama’s records of all types are sealed. Therefore you can not disprove any sealed unless Obama has them unsealed. What does Obama have to hide if he is telling the truth? people don’t hide the truth unless they are lying.
In your very first comment you attracted me. You you make assumptions as to where my information comes from. With a comment of a report from the Kremlin which no longer excite as part of the Russian government and has since 1991. the Kremlin is a common reference to the communist USSR. Now in present day it is nothing more than a historical land mark.
Your view point is absolutely liberally biased. I could show anything I say written in stone and you would still refuse that any of this is even remotely possible That by definition makes you a bigot. Again look up the definition up.
it fits.
IMPEACH OBAMA NOW! ! ! !
February 24, 2012 @ 1:50 pm
First, Obama’s personal records are no more sealed than your personal records. Second, why would he choose to release any of his personal records if it serves no meaningful purpose.
Second, the Internet rant that sparked the rumor that Obama had said, “the constitution is dead,” referred to a “Kremlin report.” I referred to it as an “alleged Kremlin report” because I couldn’t verify its existence, and quite frankly, find it hard to believe than any politician running for US president would say something like that, even if they did believe it.
Third, if you think I am a bigot, then give me the opportunity to prove you wrong by showing me something written in stone, or at least supported by verifiable facts. I assure you, I will be persuaded.
February 14, 2012 @ 1:22 pm
I believe Obama wants to ban the Bill of Rights, Constitution, and Congress. The dealing with Catholic Church was completely wrong, you will provide for things which Catholic faith forbids per Obama’s rules. His mandates for the Jews, Wall Street, Average Joe, States, and other groups has place his chance of re-election below 50%. Any of Republican will beat Ovomit. The two timing skunk(Obummer) who is half white and half black plus anything it does stinks.
February 23, 2012 @ 9:09 pm
I’m sorry, but I believe that what you believe is unbelievable. I think you need to change the channel and expose yourself to some more varied news content.
I understand that you have certain beliefs about the morality of birth control, and you are entitled to your own beliefs. But if an employer is going to receive a 100% tax deduction on the health insurance premiums that they pay for their employees, then that coverage needs to be complete and non-discriminatory.
Your overtly racist comment is revealing of your level of intellectual evolution.
February 14, 2012 @ 1:45 pm
King Barry Barrack Hussein the First (and last) knows what’s best for all of us! At least HE thinks he does.
ABO! Anyone but Obama! Obama must go!
February 15, 2012 @ 11:53 am
Obama is ineligible for the office he holds. He is also too inexperienced to perfrom in that office. Additionally, he is too stupid to learn how to do the job, and his mistaken belief is that he gets to make the rules to suit himself.
There is no reason for him to be in office, and it is criminal to allow him to remain.
February 15, 2012 @ 11:55 am
Amen to that!
February 21, 2012 @ 2:24 pm
Why should OBMA be in the office to start with , he lied to everyone about growing up in the USA , he came over here and got a grant to go to school and then turned right around and said he sent his own mother back to kenya which was a lie , she is still right here in the usa , he should be hung out to dry . And he talks about all these tax cuts , well he should start with his and all of the members of congress, that is where it should all start , but no he wants to give to other nations and dont do a dang thing to help the USA , he has no right to change our Constition , Bill of Rights , that was put here by our founding Fathers way before his and our time , He has never fought in any war nor will he , His wife takes all these vactions and takes the kids too, all on the expense of us The Tax payers , and when he leaves the office he will remain on his salary for the rest of his life , and pay NO TAXES , just like all the rest of our GOVERMENT , which is wrong , WE really need to think about this as he does not own this country , God does ! And has anyone ever took notice as to where he places his hand when the national athem is played , noone wants prayer in schools or in court rooms any more , We really Need to bring GOD back into the USA and Get OBMA out of the office before he completely destorys this entire nation , God Bless the Good Old USA , Please lets all work together and get him out of the OFFICE , we can do it if we all stand together as ONE ! One for all and All for one , Send Him Packing FOR GOOD !