Posted on World Net Daily: January 26, 2009
1:00 am Eastern
by Craig R. Smith © 2009
Anyone with a sixth grade civics education
understands the wisdom of the Founding Fathers in their design of
three specific branches of government and the accountability each
enforces.
Apparently President Obama skipped the sixth
grade.
Within the first three days of taking office, Obama
has signed five specific executive orders without any advice or the
consent of the legislative or judicial branches - the same branches
the founders believed were essential for effective and accountable
government. This is an unprecedented number given past presidents
like Kennedy, Carter and Clinton only signed one in the first few
days of taking office and Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bush
signed zero in the same time frame.
Maybe Obama has abandoned the whole concept of a
constitutional republic and is embracing early on what many of us
feared: a Socialist dictatorship with our supreme, beloved leader
Caesar Obama. Castro's Cuba, Stalin's Russia, Mao's
China may soon see the list include Obama's America unless some
of the Republicans in Congress grow a set of ... well, nerves.
An executive order becomes law unless it is
challenged by Congress or the courts. With a two-thirds majority of
Congress an order, referred to as a decree in other countries, can
and has been overridden - especially if it deviates from the
original, congressional intent of any law or statue it eliminates
or adds.
One of the notable examples of an executive order
being struck down was that of Harry Truman after World War II. In
an attempt to settle labor disputes within the steel industry,
Truman seized steel mills across the nation by executive order. The
Supreme Court handed him a stern rebuke when it determined his
order exceeded his presidential authority. The court found no
statue or constitutional authority that allowed the seizure of a
private business.
I know, I know. All you brainwashed Obamaniacs are
saying we need to give him a chance. He was just sworn in, and we
need to let him prove he can lead. I fully intended to give him a
chance until I saw that his first moves as the president were
purely political and jeopardized the safety of millions of
Americans.
Make no mistake about it. Obama with his Harvard education and his
Marxist, book-learned theory is going to attempt to prove he is a
"new" type of leader - a more benevolent, kind and decent
leader. Benevolence may quickly turn to malevolence when dealing
with terrorists who couldn't care less about rule of law or the
Geneva Convention.
If this is the style of leadership Obama is going
to offer America, we need to "just say no" and say it
rather quickly. Obama was not elected dictator; he was elected
president - a president who works with Congress in developing
general agreement before making such serious changes.
The level of unbridled trust put in Obama without
any serious investigation into his abilities or talents is
downright frightening. A brief review of Obama's cabinet
selections should cause concern for his lack of discernment.
Hillary Clinton as secretary of
state
We are to believe Hillary Clinton is the best
choice for the head of foreign affairs given the conflicts of
interest that exist with the countries and leaders who have given
millions to her husband? Or was her role as the highest ranking
member of the cabinet simply what was "negotiated" to
appease the Clintons?
Timothy Geithner as Treasury
secretary
Is a man who clearly cheated on his taxes the right
guy to run the Treasury? If you or I had fudged our taxes, as in
the case of Timothy Geithner, we would have gone to jail. But in
Obamaworld such an act is a job-securing resume item.
Eric Holder as attorney
general
Should a man who crafted pardons for FALN
terrorists and an at-large fugitive like Marc Rich be the top cop
of the nation? You and I both know the answer.
Leon Panetta as director of the
CIA
How about the Clinton chief of staff who arranged
for taxpayer-funded "trade trips"? The foreign businesses
and nations who benefitted from these meetings coincidently made
hefty contributions to the Clinton/Gore re-election campaign. Funny
how when allegations were made, Panetta managed to withhold the
documentation of the trips until just after the 1996 election. His
stellar past of deceptive practices now qualifies him for the top
post at the CIA.
These selections alone demonstrate Obama is ill
equipped to lead the greatest nation on Earth, and it concerns me
deeply. This may prove to be the most corrupt cabinet in the
history of the presidency. Just imagine if George W. Bush had
selected such characters.
The infomercial hucksters who masquerade as the
mainstream media are going to have a lot of explaining to do when
the package they sold America does not perform. When an infomercial
product arrives, the anticipation and hope are great. But two weeks
later when your abs aren't flattened or you haven't lost
that 30 pounds of unwanted fecal matter trapped like spackle in
your colon walls, you feel ripped off. By then the folks who made
the pitch are in the Bahamas laughing while counting their cash. I
have a sense a year or two from now most Americans will feel the
same about Obama. And they will have the media to thank for selling
them a fantasy.
America has made a choice - one I believe was a
mistake. But the greater mistake will be to allow Obama and his
accomplices in the press to take this nation down a road that drops
off a cliff into larger government control of every area of our
lives. He must be held accountable.
It is time to call upon our congressional leaders
to do what is right and constitutional for the nation, not what
some guy from Chicago with a messianic complex will do by a simple
stroke of the pen.
Call me an alarmist, but if Obama's first week
on the job is any indication of the next four years, we need to be
involved now more than ever before. Writing letters, sending fax
and e-mails, making phone calls and having all 300 million of our
voices heard may be our only hope.
Sitting back and hoping in hope is no longer an
option.
