Obama doesn't think he is above the law, he thinks he is the law.
You beat me to it, oldbrowser. As history will clearly demonstrate in due time, he wasn't the law, but a very small man with a very large ego who's memorable for the horrors he inflicted upon his nation.
I believe that the more valuable lesson to be learned, and long remembered, is the apparent impotence of better men to stop the incompetent ignorant footnote in history.
When I first heard Obama speak after he had announced for president, I thought he is my concept of the sorcerer's apprentice.
He looks at the presidency with his limited knowledge of what is involved and having never managed anything in his life decides that he can do a better job than the current occupant.