Posted on 07/28/2014 8:10:41 PM PDT by Nachum
During a town hall meeting at a summit with the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, President Obama explained to a young African student that to succeed, a burgeoning country required a system of laws.
He explained:
Regardless of the resources a country possesses, regardless of how talented the people are, if you do not have a basic system of rule of law, of respect for civil rights and human rights, if you do not give people a credible, legitimate way to work through the political process to express their aspirations, if you don't respect basic freedom of speech and freedom of assembly it is very rare for a country to succeed.
Obama made his remarks as critics have denounced his lawlessness, particularly through his 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) order, his decision to trade five Taliban detainees at Guantanamo Bay for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, and his controversial Obamacare law.
The Supreme Court recently ruled 9-0 against Obama after his illegal appointments to the National Labor Relations Board.
I will go further than that: that country will not succeed over the long term, Obama elaborated. It may succeed over the short term because it may have natural resources that it can extract, and it can generate enough money to then distribute and create patronage networks. But over time, that country will decline.
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I’d love to name Rep. Trey Gowdy as U.S. Attorney General. His prime directive: ferret out ALL illegal activities by all the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. This includes all agencies and departments.
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I fully agree! Gowdy would be a great AG, based on all I’ve seen and read about him.
I hate being mocked. He knows what he is doing.
It may succeed over the short term because it may have natural resources that it can extract, and it can generate enough money to then distribute and create patronage networks. But over time, that country will decline. -Obama
This is exactly what we are complaining about. The Crony Capitalism of Command and Control Economies that reward supporters and punish enemies. The capability of picking winners and losers through taxation and regulation divides with mistrust and lack of confidence that laws will be equally applied. Thus the end of the world as we know it. If you look close, it’s already here.
When the ragheads take over, how will Mooochelle get herself exempted from sharia?
Yes, since he doesn’t want America to “succeed”, the best way to do it is to promote lawlessness.
You could almost say he’s the “man of lawlessness” or perhaps even “the son of perdition”...
Take your pick. People will lose patience and find a reason just as they did with Nixon.
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