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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (123247)	6/25/2010 12:42:09 PM
From: Thomas M.	4 Recommendations Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 132070

Here's my question: Within the confines of our political system, what could Obama have done to be a worse President? I'm drawing a blank. <<< ... Obama himself back then joined in those orgies of condemnation, as reflected by this December, 2008, answer he gave to Charlie Savage, then of The Boston Globe, regarding his views of executive power: 5. Does the Constitution permit a president to detain US citizens without charges as unlawful enemy combatants? [Obama]: "No. I reject the Bush Administration's claim that the President has plenary authority under the Constitution to detain U.S. citizens without charges as unlawful enemy combatants." So back then, Obama said the President lacks the power merely to detain U.S. citizens without charges; indeed, when asked if "the Constitution permit[s]" that, he responded: "no." Yet now, as President, he claims the power to assassinate them without charges. Could even his hardest-core loyalists try to reconcile that with a straight face? >>> salon.com Tom