My Obama?!?!? I defend Obama?!?!? Hard to take you seriously after that. Obama is just a culmination of the past hundred years. The constitution has been enabling government growth for 150 years. You say “if they would have followed it” well of course, but it made it all to easy for it not to be followed. I repeat: a scrap of paper will not restrain aspiring tyrants. And Obama aspires like no other. Until the next administration.
Saying that the constitution is effective if nobody violates it is like a man saying the locks on his house would have been good if criminals hadn’t tried to break in. If the constitution is so easy to violate, without even one shot fired, then it is worthless.