Thread: Barack Obama: Above the Law or Just Lawless?

Barack Obama: Above the Law or Just Lawless?

8/30/2011
AWR Hawkins

To date, Barack Obama’s presidency has been characterized by many things, not the least of which has been a display of arrogance usually reserved for full-blown dictators like Hugo Chavez or crazies like Al Gore. And his personal haughtiness has been more than matched by members of his administration who have followed their fearless leader lockstep down a path of government expansion and economic implosion.

It’s been a slide from the exceptional to the mediocre, throughout which Obama appears to have deemed himself above the law. Thus, when he comes across a law with which he does not agree, he simply ignores it.

Case in point – the Defense of Marriage Act, which the Obama administration abruptly announced they would no longer enforce earlier this year even though it was passed by Congress in 1996 and has been the law of the land ever since. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/2 ... 27134.html

Or consider another recent circumvention of Congress, whereby the Obama administration unilaterally decided they would no longer deport illegal immigrants en mass, but would review every case on a case by case basis, under the guise of freeing up resources to deport the most violent and dangerous illegal immigrants faster.

But this deportation talk is all a façade, because part of the announcement also contained news that the Obama administration wouldn’t deport illegal immigrants http://redcounty.com/content/congress-w ... -it-anyway who are “attending school, [have] family in the military or [have] primary [responsibility] for other family members’ care.â€

Duplicate article, already posted here: http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-248693.html
Leaving this open because the links have been added.