The President Who Would Be King

The President Who Would Be King

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

Obama’s past is so vague and so little is known about the man before he won a seat in the Senate that it is extremely difficult to refer to times and places in his past.  But I do seem to recall that he was said to have been a constitutional expert and even TAUGHT the US Constitution at some college or other.  If so, it is more than a little interesting.

See. Here’s the thing:  IF Obama taught the US Constitution then he knows that America opted for a bicameral constitutional, representative, government with a president as the chief executive.  Nowhere in the US Constitution is a King of the United States proved for.  NOWHERE.

Apparently someone else taught Obama’s class they day they covered presidents vs kings in America.  Obviously, he was absent. Else he would have known that America has no king. 

After hearing King Oba … uh … President Obama making proclamations on the campaign trail as to what he intends to do without the approval of the people’s legislature, methinks the King, er, the President is in dire need of psychiatric help.   He gives every indication that he is delusional. 

We are, of course, referring to Mr. Obama’s abuse of the Presidential Executive Order authority.   Even now, Mr. Obama is preparing to issue a host of presidential executive orders.  He is making no secret that he intends to rule by executive order and regulations issued by HIS czars and the heads of the various government agencies under his command.  In fact, he openly boasts about it before crowds, which have been especially screened by the Democratic Party, and the DNC, before they are allowed to bask in Mr. Obama’s dimly lit glory.

In the event that Mr. Obama DID, in fact, miss the class on presidents vs kings, then we shall endeavor to enlighten him and all others stricken with the same malady – lack of constitutional knowledge.

Article I, Section 1 of the United States Constitution is concise in its language, "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives."

 

Got it?  No king mentioned there, right?

 

The last thing the founders of the United States wanted was the establishment of a strong central government and a strong political leader at the center of that government. They had just fought a long grueling war to gain their freedom from a King and they no longer wanted kings, potentates, or czars.  What they DID want was a loose association of States in which the power emanated from the States and not from the central government.  (Bet THAT wasn’t taught in Professor Obama’s class!)

It is important to remember that before the constitution there were the Articles of Confederation.  “The President” was the President of the United States in Congress Assembled.  The powers of the office were extremely limited and the President served for only one year.  The Constitution, in contrast to the Articles of Confederation, established a strong four-year Presidency, but still only provided extremely limited powers to the office.