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To: one_less who wrote (790916)	6/20/2014 12:59:29 PM
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I don't think any politician I can remember has been as far outside the law as Obama. Nixon? Not even close. GWB? FDR? No, I don't think so. They were, after all, pretty much related to the war and historically we do give presidents more power during wartime and it makes good sense. Grant? The violations of the law by this president have been nothing short of outrageous. More importantly, they pose a real threat to the country going forward because they are going to set a precedent for presidents to be able to violate the law at will. Possibly Grant -- while I don't know the history of all his scandals and corruption (unfortunately, his autobiography conveniently skipped any commentary on his presidency), I think a lot of those were relatively petty by comparison with the stuff we're seeing now. When you talk about Obama, there are tens of violations of the ACA, there is Holder, there is this IRS thing which thus far hasn't been shown to have involved the president but there is something wrong with all these visits of IRS employees to the WH. There are lies and corruption. All of it taken together is just something I don't believe we've seen before. Overall, the willingness to just ignore laws he doesn't want to enforce seems like the biggest problem. Lying, well, that's nothing new and I guess may not be against the law. But some of these power grabs are directly in violation of the Constitution, and he either knows that or as a "constitutional law professor" (joke) he ought to know it.