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What part of this statement do you not understand?
“We’re not going to wait for Congress. So my instruction to… all the advisers who are sitting around the table is, scour this report, identify all those areas in which we can act administratively without additional congressional authorization, and just get it done,” the president said at a meeting of his Jobs and Competitiveness Council in Pittsburgh.
As for any misquotes of the constitution by President Obama i'd be interested if you'd refresh my mind on the particular incident as i dont remember it.
I have done enough research to know that Obama is utterly clueless with regard to the US Constitution. I seriously doubt he has even read the document. Every question the Boston Globe asked him, and all the other candidates in 2008, about the US Constitution he got wrong, except one.
As to his inane blunder during the 2010 State of the Union Speech, Obama stated:
We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal….
He cited the wrong document. That "notion" is enshringed in the Declaration of Independence, not the US Constitution.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Not only did Obama, the truly amazing "constitutional scholar," get it 100% wrong, but so did everyone on his staff that reviewed his speech. When it concerns the US Constitution Obama is a complete moron. I feel sorry for anyone attending the idiot "guest lecturer's" seminars.
Executive Orders, as the name clearly states, applies only to the Executive Branch. A President cannot dictate public law, for example, or in any way effect the Judicial Branch via Executive Order.
Please don't expect lefties to understand the Constitution.
I bet money 80% of Progressives have never read the US Constitution, except what parts have been posted on-line.
I'd bet 99.9% of the "pro constitution!" tea baggers couldn't even tell you what the constitution is, and would likely respond when asked with "All I know is it's good and we're suppose to follow it like Sarah Palin's tea party express!"
I would be willing to bet that 90% of the American voting public has never read the US Constitution.
I would bet money that even among the people that have read it 90% don't fully remember it/understand it. Aside from basic stuff that goes against the plain language of the Constitution that I have heard from "constitutionalists" (e.g. "people should have to pay income taxes to vote", and my personal favorite "the supreme court did not have jurisdiction to hear [the 14th amendment issues in] Roe v. Wade") there are a number of very basic concepts people seem to miss.
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