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Laws are for the little people, not President Obama
American Thinker Blog ^ | July 2, 2011 | Jeannie DeAngelis

Posted on 07/02/2011 10:03:45 AM PDT by jazusamo

An ad to raise campaign funds has now made it official: Whatever rule applies to 300 million Americans does not and will never apply to the once-in-a-millennia exception to any rule that applies to all living entities: Barack Obama.

Based on his behavior, it's apparent the president views himself as a man so lofty in vision and skill that he's exempt from the decrees imposed on the little people. Could it be that Obama perceives legalistic edicts as necessary tools to herd lowlifes? If that were not the case, why would he be mentalizing which pair of golf shoes and what cologne to include in his ditty bag for a weekend at Camp David while chiding Congress for daring to take a break in the midst of a budget crisis?

As witnessed in all he does, Obama's attitude of exempting some while imposing on others doesn't only apply to healthcare reform waivers or Fourth of July weekend getaways. When it comes to excusing himself, Barack Obama doesn't let little things like silly legalities affect his decisions to do whatever he damned well pleases. Following the example of America's "Let's Move" creator/healthy-eating first lady who "tucked" into fried fat cakes in Botswana, Obama is relaxed when it comes to personal restrictions.

Recently, the lackadaisical Obama proved that exact point when he flouted a federal law as if it didn't exist. The following description of Title 18, subsection 607 U.S.C. is so straightforward even a layperson could understand.

It shall be unlawful for an individual who is an officer or employee of the Federal Government, including the President, Vice President, and Members of Congress, to solicit or receive a donation of money or other thing of value in connection with a Federal, State, or local election, while in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties.

In other words, the law says Barack Obama should not solicit reelection money or donations while in any room or building where official duties are carried out - such as hawking a wheel of raffle tickets on White House premises as if it were a church dance sweepstakes for a cheap door prize.

Lest we forget, the guy so anxious to now have dinner guests left Bibi Netanyahu sitting alone in the White House meeting room while he went and had a private dinner with Michelle.

According to election law experts, in flagrant disregard for federal law President Obama filmed a fundraising video offering dinner with himself and Vice President Biden as the grand prize for having a $5 raffle ticket plucked out of a giant spinning drum.

What's next, a car wash on the South Lawn? How about $100 for 10-minute spin on Marine One? And why stop there? A White House yard sale featuring Michelle's old clothes could raise enough gas money to fill up the "Hope and Change 2012" campaign bus for its entire tour.

Just as French fries are regularly enjoyed by a lady insistently force-feeding the nation rhetoric about organic kale, Obama released himself from the rules pertaining to the solicitation of money on federal property, which in his mind probably apply exclusively to the lesser 43 men who led prior to his using the Resolute Desk as a footstool.

As for the Dinner Date with Joe and Barry ad, "The White House contends that the video is legal." A White House spokesperson noted that the "Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued a memo in 1979 explaining that the president can solicit funds in the White House, so long as he does it in the residential portion of the of the mansion, not in a room used for official business." The White House must have been pretty darn desperate if it went back to the time when a barrel of oil was $24 to dig up that memo.

Regardless of how the White House parses and spins, according to legal election law experts, "If the video was filmed in the Map Room, as it appears to be, then there is no question it violates the law."

Nevertheless, similar to the way the administration defended bypassing congressional authorization under the War Powers Act before taking action in Libya, the White House is now justifying campaign ads being filmed in the Map Room. To pacify critics, sleight-of-hand could be used to switch out the placard hanging on the door that says, "For Official Activities Only" for one that reads "Home Sweet Home."

Experts contend that by soliciting funds in the White House to finance a bid for reelection, the President is definitely bending if not outright breaking the federal law. Cleta Mitchell, member of the American Bar Association's election law committee, spoke more plainly when addressing the fact that Barack Obama filmed his $5 "Come On-A My House" ad in the White House -- she said his doing so is a blatant "criminal offense."

What Ms. Mitchell doesn't seem to grasp is that whatever criterion causes Obama's actions to be defined as "criminal" is not a problem for the present occupant of the White House. The President is well aware that people may gripe, but he will never be called into account for the unlawful act of selling "Reelect Me" raffle tickets from the same room where an official visit was held with the Dalai Lama, who after being welcomed into what is now being considered the President's 'private residence,' was escorted out past a pile of garbage.

It could be that President Obama has convinced himself that but once in a nation's history comes a leader so superior to all others that placing legal boundaries upon such an individual constitutes an injustice that could result in global ramifications. Moreover, Obama could also feel that the urgent need to finish the vital work he started is so pressing that excusing himself from rules surrounding the solicitation of campaign funds on the premises of the White House is supported by that old adage: "By any means necessary."

In other words, the "ends" of raising money to keep Obama in office justify the "means" of raising the funds illegally. Thus, if it's necessary for Barack Obama, a man greater than the rules, to acquire reelection money by making an illegal "really big announcement" in order to "get everything done" over the next 5½ years, then so be it.

Author's content: www.jeannie-ology.com


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 2012; liarinchief; obama
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DeAngelis rips Obama and rightfully so, Zer0 believes he's above the law

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1 posted on 07/02/2011 10:03:49 AM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Where’s the GOP?


2 posted on 07/02/2011 10:05:39 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (Socialism...Easier said than done.)
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To: jazusamo

impeach impeach impeach


3 posted on 07/02/2011 10:11:45 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Yep, long overdue.


4 posted on 07/02/2011 10:13:57 AM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

Please bump the Freepathon or click above and donate or become a monthly donor!

5 posted on 07/02/2011 10:14:17 AM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

Shades of Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

The main charactor believed he was one of those special entliied people who were above others to the point he could commit crimes and not be punished


6 posted on 07/02/2011 10:21:36 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: jazusamo
Mark my words upon the refutation of Obamanism, the vindictiveness of BO, but more importantly his backers, will be so egregious even the naive women of the United States will begin to see.

We are talking about inherently ugly people. The Left.

Johnny Suntrade

7 posted on 07/02/2011 10:22:47 AM PDT by jnsun (The Left: the need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer.)
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To: jazusamo

Laws are for White Americans,Not Democommies.


8 posted on 07/02/2011 10:34:39 AM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“impeach impeach impeach”
Much as I agree, I can not imagine the circumstances where the sufficient required number of Democrats would vote for it. If (I’ll call it the side of right, assuming some Democrats will be on it too) manage to bring the case to trial, conviction lies in the Senate, where there are too many Anti-American Democrats and guilt-ridden white RINO’s to convict.

Then, let us suppose Obama is convicted. Do we get President Biden, a man who is demonstrably incapable? No, I’m afraid we paid your money and we’re on this rollercoaster to the end of the ride. Let us hope it at least remains on the track.


9 posted on 07/02/2011 10:41:10 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Gen.Blather

Better a stupid Biden than an evil Obama. NOT at least attempting to answer heinous acts despite a question whether resources exist to do so also creates more callousness.


10 posted on 07/02/2011 10:53:53 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: jazusamo
Once a country convinces itself or is convinced that its leader is above the law, it has been transformed by the cult of personality into a dictatorship, much like Venezuelan chavisimo.
11 posted on 07/02/2011 10:54:35 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: jazusamo

Bump


12 posted on 07/02/2011 11:09:43 AM PDT by arkady_renko
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To: jazusamo

I made this statement here on FR at the time of his coronation:

“Welcome to New Kenya (Africa U.S.A.)”

“Where the law of the jungle has replaced the Law of the Land!”


13 posted on 07/02/2011 11:11:57 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: jazusamo

Get a good look. This is how fascism works.


14 posted on 07/02/2011 11:15:16 AM PDT by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: jazusamo
Think of all the vacations, weekend getaways, and jaunts the Pres_ent has taken. There was never any footage that could have been used from them, never any opportunity to film some?

IMHO, the decision to illegally film this spot wasn't just careless, it was intentional.

Obama is throwing his superiority and disrespect for the law in our faces, and daring us all to do something about it. If no one does...

15 posted on 07/02/2011 11:29:00 AM PDT by ZOOKER ( Exploring the fine line between cynicism and outright depression)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“NOT at least attempting to answer heinous acts despite a question whether resources exist to do so also creates more callousness.”

I would argue that Clinton’s impeachment did more damage to conservatives and the conservative cause than it did to Clinton. I believe he emerged from the impeachment process politically stronger. Not only would an Obama impeachment face the impossible headwinds of the MSM, but it cannot succeed as the Democrats are too many in the Senate. Principled Republicans voted to impeach Nixon. Who ever heard of a principled Democrat? To use another analogy, simply shooting at the target when you have no chance of hitting it is a waste of ammunition better spent on targets you could hit. (Dear Secret Service. It’s an analogy, I’m not advocating violence.)


16 posted on 07/02/2011 11:34:09 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: ZOOKER
Obama is throwing his superiority and disrespect for the law in our faces, and daring us all to do something about it.

Excellent point and I agree. He's done the identical thing on other issues, the latest being the Libyan standoff with Congress. He's like a teenager defying parental authority but he's slowly destroying the rule of law in our nation. The GOP has to wake up and slap him down.

17 posted on 07/02/2011 11:42:16 AM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

Obama is above the law. No one does anything to stop him.


18 posted on 07/02/2011 11:45:18 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: jazusamo
Very early on in the Obama administration, I made the point on FR that if Obama felt he could get away with it, he'd do away with the 2012 or 2016 election. Some tried to take me to task saying that we said the same thing about Clinton in 2000 and the left said the same thing about Bush. The weight of my assertion was not the part about doing away with the election, but rather the, "If he felt he could get away with it," part.

I don't think most people have any idea how much he is emboldened by every unethical and illegal act he and his people get away with.

19 posted on 07/02/2011 11:57:08 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Another excellent point.

I agree that he’ll only try it if he believes he can get away with it.

With his track record so far he may just believe he can.


20 posted on 07/02/2011 12:18:57 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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