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Walter Williams: Obama vs. Us
Creators Syndicate ^ | November 19, 2014 | Walter E. Williams

Posted on 11/17/2014 9:40:56 AM PST by jazusamo

Suppose you saw a person driving his car on the wrong side of a highway, against the traffic. Would you call him a stupid and/or incompetent driver? You say, "Williams, what kind of question is that? Of course he's one or the other!" I'd say, "Hold your horses. What are his intentions?" If the driver's intentions are to cause highway calamity, one can hardly call his actions stupid or incompetent. Given his intentions, he is wisely acting in a manner to achieve his objectives.

This observation lies at the heart of my colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell's column last week, in which he says, "Pundits who depict Obama as a weak, lame duck president may be greatly misjudging him, as they have so often in the past." After suffering an elective trouncing at the polls, President Barack Obama issued Congress an ultimatum, saying that if it doesn't enact the kind of immigration law that he would like, he will unilaterally issue an executive order to change the nation's immigration laws. This threat, along with other abuses of his office, is not a sign of presidential stupidity or incompetence.

Obama is doing precisely what he promised during his 2008 presidential campaign, to cheering and mesmerized crowds: "We are going to fundamentally change America" and "We will change America. We will change the world." Obama is living up to those pledges by subverting our Constitution and adopting the political style of a banana republic dictator. He showed his willingness to ignore the Constitution when he eliminated the work requirement in welfare reform laws enacted during the Clinton administration. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, was enacted by Congress and hence is the law of the land. Obama has used executive orders to change the law on several occasions...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: 0bama; demonrats; obama; republicans; tyranny; walterwilliams; williams
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To: DaveyB

21 posted on 11/17/2014 11:42:10 AM PST by Defiant (GOP needs to be the party of no to socialism, yes to freedom.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Voters voted Obama a two-year time out! Will Republicans put on their big boy pants to deliver what the voters voted in?


22 posted on 11/17/2014 11:45:02 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: DaveyB

Not only true, but very well said.


23 posted on 11/17/2014 12:36:05 PM PST by Nea Wood
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