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The president's power grab - Obama is not a dictator, but there is a danger in his aggregation of...
LA Times ^ | March 9, 2014 | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 03/09/2014 1:15:46 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: neverdem

Strike the “not” and “but” from that sentence.


21 posted on 03/09/2014 2:21:47 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: PetroniusMaximus; neverdem

Where is the brave editorial cartoonist who will portray BO doing a “knockout game” on Uncle Sam and/or SCOTUS + the Congress?


22 posted on 03/09/2014 2:24:31 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: maggief
Truly shocked by the comments. Nearly all condemning Obama.......in the LATimes, no less! Pigs are flying and Obama is playing golf.......while America is desperately trying to regain it's footing on the path to prosperity. Obama has been the most destructive, divisive pResident EVER! Let's work to resurrect the America that we know is still in the hearts of true Patriots!
23 posted on 03/09/2014 2:59:33 PM PDT by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: neverdem

Obama is not a dictator but he plays one in the White House.


24 posted on 03/09/2014 3:05:47 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished)
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To: neverdem

AKA: “If you want your Constitution, you can have your Constitution”


25 posted on 03/09/2014 3:21:01 PM PDT by The Duke ("Forgiveness is between them and God, it's my job to arrange the meeting.")
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To: neverdem
Obama is not a dictator

Actually, he is a dictator wannabe and if the Republicans or someone won't stop him, he'll succeed in being dictator. He's perilously close.

26 posted on 03/09/2014 3:32:52 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: neverdem

Needs to be in the memo: “People have been hearing you for years. They haven’t been listening for just as long.”


27 posted on 03/09/2014 3:39:19 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: DanielRedfoot

I read that that too - “George W Bush. . .” Blah, blah, blah - stopped right there.


28 posted on 03/09/2014 3:41:44 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (The question of our age is whether a majority of Americans can and will vote us all into slavery.)
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To: neverdem

Who is Turley? A dissident liberal, or one of the usual suspects?

Sorry, don’t know anything about him. Could you provide a little background?


29 posted on 03/09/2014 3:46:01 PM PDT by livius
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To: mojito

Don’t criminal psychologists document that pathological behavior is displayed in increments?
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Yes, deception is the common trait of all dictators. After they achieve control, they no longer care what the common people think. At this point, the government is so universally corrupt they can rig all future outcomes in their favor. This is where we find ourselves under Zero’s reign. Does he really care now whether the masses have finally figured out that he is a dictator? What can they do about it now?


30 posted on 03/09/2014 3:47:41 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: iontheball
What can they do about it now?

Et tu, Brute?

31 posted on 03/09/2014 3:52:11 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: neverdem

Obama is only waiting for the opportunity.


32 posted on 03/09/2014 4:41:49 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: All

             

  .. at every opportunity
33 posted on 03/09/2014 4:49:20 PM PDT by tomkat (3%+1)
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To: SkyDancer

I’m from Mississippi, so I’ve been called racist just because of that, and although I’m not a racist, I will gladly wear that mantle if it is required to oppose the kenyan bastard.


34 posted on 03/09/2014 4:59:28 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Who but a TYRANT shoves down another man's throat what he has exempted himself from?)
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To: neverdem
Obama is not a dictator

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Give him time.

35 posted on 03/09/2014 5:02:40 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: neverdem
The trend has existed for decades, and President George W. Bush showed equal contempt for the separation of powers.

George had flaws aplenty, but this wasn't one of them. I guess this is just another variation of the "Bush's Fault" knee-jerk thing by the media, in this case it is "Bush's Fault, Too...", specifically.

36 posted on 03/09/2014 5:28:08 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Charles Martel; hoosiermama

The author put that bash on Bush in, to throw a sop to the ultraliberal readers.

But note that it came in at the end, AFTER the main points were made.

But to have that op ed in the LAT is telling...

Even the people on the Left coast know that this Pres__ent has overstepped the constitutional limits on powers.

Its the editorial equivalent of a magnitude 6.0


37 posted on 03/09/2014 5:48:38 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: neverdem

On what basis can one say he’s not a dictator accelerating his power grabbing daily?


38 posted on 03/09/2014 6:40:21 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: neverdem

What would he have to do to BECOME a dictator?

What would he have to support to BECOME a Marxist?


39 posted on 03/09/2014 7:43:59 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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