Here's a hint to those would-be eggheads:
ANYTHING a foreign born usurper does is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
Precedent trumps the supreme law. Just ask Scotus.
Thanks for posting this.
I mentioned this a few days ago.
Yes, the situation in Iraq is serious.
But the United States military does NOT belong to Obama.
He did this in Libya, and now in Iraq. He is not being challenged.
He already violated the War Powers act before this, and nothing happened. So, why should he care when he knows there are no consequences?
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said that or words to that effect during questioning about the Constitutionality of OBAMACare before it was passed. That sums up the Democrat Party and Obama's disdain for our Constitution.
The real problem here is the languorous pursuit of inconclusive conflicts that are never resolved by outright victory.
These professors always rediscover the Constitution when the nation is at war, then forgets it at home at every chance. I think the Congress should declare war against ISIS and Islamic extremism. The Islamists know we’re at war, what good does pretending we’re not do?
All I can say in this case is that Obama did the right thing. And, Congress should approve!
You forget that Barry is a constitutional scholar and he knows what he is doing /sarc
Has anyone asked the ISIS constitutional law scholars what THEY think? Shouldn’t we be worried that ISIS might sue us for war crimes in the Hague? Have we heard from their lawyers?
This is impossible because 0bama is a Constitutional Scholar and Lecturer.
No need to comment. That’s why the tag line says what it says.
Obama is worried about doing something that’s against the constitution? That’s funny.
I haven’t heard one republican demanding he get congress’ approval.
First of all, the War Power of the United States is OUR power, delegated or granted to a Congress for a specific reason. It has NOTHING to do with the President, in fact, his designation as Commander-in Chief of the Army and the Navy only makes sense as the executor of powers located elsewhere.
Look at this: " the President is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial Government of Japan…"
Authorized and directed. As it should be.
I’d go with Bob Turner’s statement. He’s a longtime friend of mine, a two-career Vietnam veteran (soldier and diplomatic staff), one of the US’s top scholars on law and war, and perhaps the top scholar on Thomas Jefferson and the wrongful reporting that TJ fathered a child with a slave named Sally Hemmings (it was his brother, re DNA tests).
Our Vietnam Veterans for Factual History (VVFH.org) just held a press conference in DC last week in which we discussed some of these issues re the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the circumstances around it re going to war against No. Vietnam.
There is, as Bob says, a major difference between going to war against an established state as opposed to taking counter-terrorism actions against a genocidal bunch of maniacs who have also threatened to attack our country.
I would add the following: Continue to kill all the Islamic Jihadist bastards and let the buzzards and lawyers sort them out in the sand graveyards of Iraq.
I’d go with Bob Turner’s statement. He’s a longtime friend of mine, a two-career Vietnam veteran (soldier and diplomatic staff), one of the US’s top scholars on law and war, and perhaps the top scholar on Thomas Jefferson and the wrongful reporting that TJ fathered a child with a slave named Sally Hemmings (it was his brother, re DNA tests).
Our Vietnam Veterans for Factual History (VVFH.org) just held a press conference in DC last week in which we discussed some of these issues re the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the circumstances around it re going to war against No. Vietnam.
There is, as Bob says, a major difference between going to war against an established state as opposed to taking counter-terrorism actions against a genocidal bunch of maniacs who have also threatened to attack our country.
I would add the following: Continue to kill all the Islamic Jihadist bastards and let the buzzards and lawyers sort them out in the sand graveyards of Iraq.
I’m pretty sure that if he promises “days, not weeks” he has an eight month window for unlimited airstrikes.
