President Obama likes to claim he’s been forced into rogue executive actions, laying the blame on an intransigent Congress. In fact, his lawlessness is coldly calculated, dating back to his days as a Chicago community organizer. Consider what he wrote on page 276 of his 1995 memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” reflecting on his decision to study law: “I had things to learn in law school, things that would help me bring about real change. I would learn power’s currency in all its intricacy and detail, knowledge that I could now bring back to where it was needed…bring it back like Promethean fire.” Obama fancies himself a modern-day Prometheus stealing laws from the oppressive Founding Fathers for the benefit of the oppressed. “I just took an action to change the law!” he reminded Hispanic activists in Chicago last week, referring to his executive amnesty. Learning to run around American law was his main purpose in attending Harvard Law School, where he quickly sidled up to Professor Derrick Bell, who bashed the Constitution as a form of “original sin.” There was no reverence in studying the founding documents and the system they created, no desire to work within America’s legal framework and enforce existing law. No, Obama didn’t study federal statutes to defend them. He studied them to game them, sabotage them. To abdicate them.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 03:14:57 +0000
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