Tuesday, July 15, 2014

For Obama, it's all about "me"

7/15/2014



CNSNews.com reports:
Not counting instances when he quoted a letter from a citizen or cited dialogue from a movie, President Barack Obama used the first person singular--including the pronouns "I" and "me" and the adjective "my"--199 times in a speech he delivered Thursday vowing to use unilateral executive action to achieve his policy goals that Congress would not enact through the normal, constitutional legislative process.

"It is lonely, me just doing stuff," Obama said at the speech in Austin, Texas, according to the official transcript and video posted on the White House website.

"I'm just telling the truth now," Obama told the crowd. "I don't have to run for office again, so I can just let her rip. And I want to assure you, I'm really not that partisan of a guy."
Click here to go to the original source to read the rest of the story and watch the video of Obama's speech.

Commentary

Readers should overlay this story with one that made the rounds last week in which Obama blamed Congress for its failure to act on the immigration crisis. But the difference there was that he was moaning about the fact they he could not do what he thinks needs to be done without Congress. One wonders if he hasn't lost it.

But the really serious issue here is that the speech in the video at the link above is a fragrant and blatant assault on the Constitution by this President. Our system of government is based on checks and balances, carefully crafted and time-tested. Yet what we have here is a man that would trash all of that and replace it with what he thinks best. This speech, and this speech alone, should be grounds for the House to impeach him, notwithstanding whether the Senate would convict him.

So the real blame here should be placed on John Boehner and the others in the House leadership. They are not doing their job, but not as Obama complains, but rather in not holding this man accountable to the Constitution.

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