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Lets start with Woody Allen, yes, the Actor/Director.
“I am pleased with Obama. I think he’s brilliant. The Republican Party should get out of his way and stop trying to hurt him.”
"it would be good…if he could be a dictator for a few years because he could do a lot of good things quickly."
Or how about Rosey O'Donnell?
“Seize their assets today. Take over the country, I don’t care. Issue and executive order. Say BP guess what…call it socialism, call it communism, call it anything you want. Lets watch Rush Limbaugh explode…on TV when he talks….SEIZE THE ASSETS, take over BP.”
Hmmm. If we have "normal people" talking about making Obama into a dictator, what are some of the Media Pundits saying?
How about Ed Schultz at MSNBC?
“Mr. President, I want to see the boot on the neck of BP tonight. I want to see some finger-pointing whether it's in your personality or not and it's OK tonight to act kind of like a dictator and call the shots saying this is the way it's going to be. BP has lied to the citizens of this country long enough. It's been one misstep after another. One lie, one half-truth after another. It's time for the President of the United States to lay it out there in full force for the citizens of the United States and make it very clear that BP is going to make us whole, whole again and whole for a long time.”
“Don't you think this is a moment where President Obama has to make sure that he lets everybody know that he's calling the shots, and almost in words of maybe a dictator, that this is the way we're going to do it? And when I hear reported today by Chuck Todd here on MSNBC that the Obama administration is negotiating with BP over a third independent party as to whether they're going to oversee the claims process, it just makes me think that BP is calling the shots and not the American people.”
Ouch. Are there any in the Political arena that support or think of Obama as a Dictator?
Lets ask Representative Sam Johnson (R-Tex.), a member of the Ways and Means Committee, who broke up the House decorum by speaking the truth. He denounced President Obama as a "fascist dictator," something that, previously, only Lyndon LaRouche had the balls to say in public. It is all becoming that obvious! Johnson's remarks were delivered during a tumultuous mark-up and were heard by an LPAC representative who was in the hearing.
Maybe I should describe to you what constitutes a "Dictator", the following is from Wikipedia
"A dictator is a ruler (e.g. absolutist or autocratic) who assumes sole and absolute power (sometimes but not always with military control) but without hereditary ascension such as an absolute monarch. When other states call the head of state of a particular state a dictator, that state is called a dictatorship. The word originated as the title of a magistrate in ancient Rome appointed by the Senate to rule the republic in times of emergency (see Roman dictator and justitium)."We have a process in this country for making laws and setting policies. This process is specifically designed to prevent a Dictatorship or Tyranny. It is supported by our "separation of powers" which means that one man, the President, or any one group, the House, Senate or SCOTUS, cannot "dictate" law.
"The term 'dictator' is comparable to, but not synonymous with, the ancient concept of a tyrant; initially 'tyrant', like 'dictator', did not carry negative connotations. A wide variety of leaders coming to power in a number of different kinds of regimes, such as military juntas, single-party states and civilian governments under personal rule, have been described as dictators. For example, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Kim Jong-il."
Yet, Obama is circumventing this process with things like "executive orders" and flat out "abuses of power", see the following examples:
1) EO 13524 ammends EO 12425, Dec 16, 2009, whereby an international police ‘Force’ is authorized to act within the U.S. that is no longer subject to 4th Amendment Search and Seizure (expanding the ‘Force’ and disarming Americans).
2) "The use of executive power came to a head this week when Mr. Obama confronted Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, about nominations held up in the Senate. In a meeting with Congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday, Mr. Obama turned to Mr. McConnell and vowed to use his power to appoint officials during Senate recesses if his nominations were not cleared."
3) "Several Senators have learned of a possible plan by the Obama Administration that would provide a mass Amnesty for the nation's 11-18 million illegal aliens. Led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), eight Senators addressed a letter to the President asking for answers to questions about a plan that would allow DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano to provide an amnesty if they can't secure enough votes for a bill in the Senate."
For Obama to take upon himself the sole responsibility of making these changes makes him a Dictator. Even if he does not accomplish anything by it, he would be a Dictator in word and desire, if not in actuality.
Not only that, but he has lied about several things related to the abuse of power:
"Already, Mr. Obama has had to reconcile his campaign-trail criticism of Mr. Bush for excessive use of so-called signing statements to bypass parts of legislation with his own use of such tactics. After a bipartisan furor in Congress last year, Mr. Obama stopped issuing such signing statements, but aides said last month that he still reserves the right to ignore sections of bills he considers unconstitutional if objections have been lodged previously by the executive branch."
If you remember, he said he wouldn't do it, it was an abuse of power...but now...the student has become the master.
Similar in severity is Obama's promise to not have any lobbyists in his White House...and recently, in the state of the union address he said:
"[W]e’ve excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs or seats on federal boards and commissions."Well, the truth is much scarier. One of the hallmarks of a corrupt government is to put "your people" into positions of power. Look at the (and growing) list of Policy Makers that have been lobbyists within the CURRENT White House:
•Eric Holder, attorney general nominee, was registered to lobby until 2004 on behalf of clients including Global Crossing, a bankrupt telecommunications firm [now confirmed].
•Tom Vilsack, secretary of agriculture nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year on behalf of the National Education Association.
•William Lynn, deputy defense secretary nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for defense contractor Raytheon, where he was a top executive.
•William Corr, deputy health and human services secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until last year for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a non-profit that pushes to limit tobacco use.
•David Hayes, deputy interior secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until 2006 for clients, including the regional utility San Diego Gas & Electric.
•Mark Patterson, chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for financial giant Goldman Sachs.
•Ron Klain, chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, was registered to lobby until 2005 for clients, including the Coalition for Asbestos Resolution, U.S. Airways, Airborne Express and drug-maker ImClone.
•Mona Sutphen, deputy White House chief of staff, was registered to lobby for clients, including Angliss International in 2003.
•Melody Barnes, domestic policy council director, lobbied in 2003 and 2004 for liberal advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the American Constitution Society and the Center for Reproductive Rights.
•Cecilia Munoz, White House director of intergovernmental affairs, was a lobbyist as recently as last year for the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group.
•Patrick Gaspard, White House political affairs director, was a lobbyist for the Service Employees International Union.
•Michael Strautmanis, chief of staff to the president's assistant for intergovernmental relations, lobbied for the American Association of Justice from 2001 until 2005.
•Jocelyn Frye, who used to lobby on employment and gender discrimination, became director of policy and projects for Michelle Obama
He is now being called out by several people on "the hill" for what he is, a liar:
When he makes the statement in the State of the Union Address;
"With all due deference to separation of powers, last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections. I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests or, worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people. And I urge Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps correct some of these problems."Judge Alito says, "Not True".
And we all remember the "You Lie" shout out during a speech by Obama in which he said the new Health Care bill would not subsidize illegal immigrants. Here are some concerns at the time Sen. Wilson made his remark:
"Critics say there is no way to enforce the ban on subsidies for undocumented workers, since the Democratic majority in the House turned back a Republican effort to explicitly stiffen citizenship checks."The fact of the matter is, if an illegal immigrant steps into an emergency room at any hospital and receives care that they then do not pay for, YOU AND I GET STUCK WITH THE BILL. Hospitals CANNOT turn away anyone needing care.
"Some Republicans argue that the measure has left a loophole for undocumented relatives of legal residents to be covered. But Treadwell disputes that, telling CNN that based on her reading of the bills, "There is no loophole currently."
Read the references below, but understand that Sen. Wilson was responding truthfully at the time; right after the Dems killed the amendments that would have prevented illegals from sucking the system. It was later corrected, but at the time, he was correct, the President had lied:
http://www.factcheck.org/2010/01/obamas-state-of-the-union-address/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/27/alito-not-true_n_439672.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/10/obama.heckled.speech/index.html
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/27/cnn-truth-squad-will-health-bill-pay-for-illegal-immigrants-an-update/?fbid=UbVmYZ9KoK5
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obamacare-wont-cover-illegal-immigrants--55021087.html
Now, back to one of my original assertions about a Dictator;
another individual, Rep. Barney Frank, clearly states that there is no such thing as "too much regulation". What do you think, America? Can we have too much regulation? How does "no such thing as too much regulation" fit within a FREE society?
Then there is the power he continues to ascribe to himself, via Congress. He can now decide, all by himself, to shut down access to the internet. Shouldn't that be left up to the workings of Congress? Why would we give one man such powers?
The same thing is happening with Cap&Trade, Offshore Drilling Ban, and other bits of legislation. If he continues down this road, the next president could continue the practice, and so on, till we have no use of a Congress, the president will simply have all the power, i.e. he will be a dictator.
And don't forget, more circumvention of the system, with secret appointments of people...
Obama Bypasses Senate to Install Controversial “Rationing Czar” at Medicare Center
Hmmm... didn't the conservatives say that Rationing would happen? They called them "death panels", but they did say there wouldn't be enough money, so someone would have to choose who gets service and who does not.
Score one for the good guys...but because there is NOTHING to stop the Bad Guys (with that super majority and all) it doesn't mean much now...
These are scary times, and we should be vigilant in our watch of the Government. With so many people wanting to regulate us and control us and circumvent the process...it is only a matter of time before we fall under that list of infamous Dictators...
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