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Ineverlie&I'malwaysri
Joined: 09 Aug 2011
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:06 am Post subject: Ron Paul: Obama is a dictator |
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Once again, RP tells it like it is.
Ron Paul says Obama is practically a dictator
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul says that these times are frustrating ones for the commander-in-chief, but that doesn�t give Barack Obama an excuse to deviate from the Constitution.
According to Paul, President Obama�s role in office is approaching that of a dictatorship.
In an open letter issued by Texas Congressman Ron Paul dated November 7, the GOP hopeful calls out the current US president for time and time again misusing his ability to implement executive orders to bypass the system of checks and balances that America�s forefathers inscribed to keep the country in order.
Given Obama�s familiarity with the US Constitution � he lectured in it at the University of Chicago Law School for 12 years � Rep. Paul says that the president should know a thing or two about what the document says.
�Getting something done is proving to be a monumental task,� writes Paul. �This may be news to the supposed constitutional scholar who is now our president, but if the political process seems inconvenient to the implementation of his agenda, that is not a flaw in the system. It was designed that way. The drafters of the Constitution intended the default action of government to be inaction. Hopefully, this means actions taken by the government are necessary and proper. If federal laws or executive actions can't be agreed upon constitutionally- which is to say legally- such laws or actions should be rejected...� |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:22 am Post subject: |
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Hyperbole is a debased way to stay in the headlines. |
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Beeyee

Joined: 29 May 2007
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:50 am Post subject: Re: Ron Paul: Obama is a dictator |
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Ineverlie&I'malwaysri wrote: |
If federal laws or executive actions can't be agreed upon constitutionally- which is to say legally- such laws or actions should be rejected...� |
Quoted for truth. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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Unposter
Joined: 04 Jun 2006
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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Comments like that sound like Paul is about to "jump the shark." That smacks of desperation.
Obama is too much of a wimp to be a dictator.
If anything Obama tries too hard to compromise.
To be honest, I expect more from Ron Paul, a non-politician politician, than that kind of divisive dribble. It sounds too much like what a former maverick like McCain might say. |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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This sort of thing just makes it more easy for people to call Ron Paul a whack job fringe candidate and ignore him. If Obama was a dictator than he wouldn't have such a hard job doing anything. Many of his foreign policy choices could be painted in that light, and I disagree with some, but for Paul that would be a losing choice because thoose things are the most popular things that he has done. |
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Ineverlie&I'malwaysri
Joined: 09 Aug 2011
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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Unposter wrote: |
If anything Obama tries too hard to compromise.
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According to Dr. Justin Frank, a psychoanalyst practicing in Washington DC and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University Medical Center and author of Bush on the Couch and Obama on the Couch, Obama suffers from Obsessive Bipartisan Disorder. Read the book or go to the show of 11/7/11 and begin listening at minute 46. |
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Location: Coquitlam, BC
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:10 am Post subject: |
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Hi think Ron Paul would make a decent president. At least he sees the importance of following the Constitution. |
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Ineverlie&I'malwaysri
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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�The current administration has unabashedly stated that Congress�s unwillingness to pass the president�s jobs bill means that the president will act unilaterally to enact provisions of it piecemeal through Executive Order. Obama explicitly threatens to bypass Congress, thus aggregating the power to make and enforce laws in the executive. This clearly erodes the principles of separation of powers and checks and balances. It brings the modern presidency dangerously close to an elective dictatorship.� |
What is he going on about? The feeble things that he has been able to do? Like what, that timid bit about the student loans change. He's setting the bar really low here. What about all the people on the stage with him, and maybe him too, I can't remember, that said they'd issue executive orders to repeal obama care? Or an executive order to bring all the troops home on the first day. Whether or not you agree with thoose things, it is the same tactic. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 5:46 am Post subject: |
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At the best of times, Ron Paul borders on imbecility. This is not one of his good times.
If RP were honest (I know that is asking a lot), he would be horrified at the treasonous irresponsibility of the right wing-created debt ceiling fiasco of July/August. The definition of 'dictatorship' is rule by a minority (yes, 'minority' because NO dictator rules alone). He was complicit in the near destruction of the US economy just a couple of months ago by a small minority of 'legislators'.
The man should be strung up by his gonads and used as a pinata. If he survives, he should be given a trial under whatever law protects the ignorant public from fraud by political charlatans. |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011 Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:06 am Post subject: |
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I read this article and I suddenly thought about this piece of humor. :S
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I'm trying to sum up President Obama's first eleven months in office. He gave billions to Wall Street, cracked down on illegal immigrants getting health care, and he's sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. You know something? He may go down in history as our greatest Republican president ever. - Jay Leno (December 3, 2009) |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:19 am Post subject: |
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NohopeSeriously wrote: |
I read this article and I suddenly thought about this piece of humor. :S
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I'm trying to sum up President Obama's first eleven months in office. He gave billions to Wall Street, cracked down on illegal immigrants getting health care, and he's sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. You know something? He may go down in history as our greatest Republican president ever. - Jay Leno (December 3, 2009) |
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That was somehow memorable?
a) It was Bush who gave the money to Wall Street because pretty much everyone and his dog thought it was a good idea...after they voted against it the first time around.
b) How is controlling borders a partisan idea? Yes, it matters that conservatives like Reagan wanted open borders so he could destroy unions and reduce middle class wages, and most of the rest want brown peons to pick their veggies to keep them cheap, but still. Most countries in the world try to control their borders and regulate who and how many come in.
I'll go out on a limb here and ask when Jay Leno became a font of political wisdom? |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011 Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:51 am Post subject: |
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Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
I'll go out on a limb here and ask when Jay Leno became a font of political wisdom? |
Because I now figure out that humor is only way to understand American politics properly. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:59 am Post subject: |
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Because I now figure out that humor is only way to understand American politics properly. |
That might well be true, but it has never ever--even in his wildest dreams-- been true of Jay Leno**.
You might try Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
**Remember in high school when a new fad came through and a year and a half later some geek from the aggressively uncool crowd took up the fad? That was Jay Leno. |
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