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Obama, a One-Man Revolution
National Review ^ | 12/25/2014 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 12/25/2014 9:23:09 AM PST by Servant of the Cross

In his “fourth quarter,” he feels free to ignore popular opinion, the rule of law, and Congress.

Until now there were two types of peaceful American change. One was a president, like Franklin D. Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan, working with Congress to alter American life from the top down by passing a new agenda. The other was popular-reform pressure, as happened in the 1890s or 1960s, to change public opinion and force government to make new laws or change existing ones.

Barack Obama has introduced a quite different, third sort of revolution. He seeks to enact change that both the majority of Americans and their representatives oppose. And he tries to do it by bypassing Congress through executive orders and presidential memoranda of dubious legality.

Take so-called climate change. Even when Obama enjoyed a Democrat-controlled Congress, he could not ram through unpopular cap-and-trade legislation. Now he promises to reduce carbon emissions through executive orders. He just signed a climate-change “accord” with China, bypassing the U.S. Senate, which by law must approve treaties with foreign powers.

Polls show that a majority of Americans oppose amnesties and want immigration laws enforced. The 2014 midterm elections were a reminder of those realities.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: executiveamnesty; executiveorders; illegal; obama; obamadictator; revolution; vdh
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To: nascarnation

its a scene from SoOny’s Forthcoming Movie release..”The Other Interview”

http://i.imgur.com/IOEDrCg.jpg


21 posted on 12/25/2014 9:54:39 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: indthkr

He’s got the goods on all of them.


22 posted on 12/25/2014 9:58:19 AM PST by FES0844
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To: nascarnation
> Federal bailouts of blue-State public sector pensions (Calif./Ill.) via debt monetization

> card check unionization

- don't forget those.

23 posted on 12/25/2014 10:01:35 AM PST by 4Liberty (Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
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To: Servant of the Cross

“He seeks to enact change that both the majority of Americans and their representatives oppose. “

You wouldn’t think that this could possibly be true...but it is. Some “representatives”.


24 posted on 12/25/2014 10:02:04 AM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

I read somewhere that the Kool-Aid is the sperm of George Soros.


25 posted on 12/25/2014 10:02:59 AM PST by 9thLife
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To: Servant of the Cross
OK, OK...it's crude of me to send this out today. But no cruder than the millions of "citizens" who, ignoring the content of this jerk's character (it's empty), voted for him strictly on his skin pigmentation, allowing him to do great damage to this nation and foment the impending race war that may ultimately bring it all the way down. Pray that he is soon gone and we never make such a mistake again. We won't survive another like this one.

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26 posted on 12/25/2014 10:04:19 AM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Servant of the Cross

He is just the front man for the cabal of America hating leftists who snuck him into the White House


27 posted on 12/25/2014 10:04:49 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Obama always ignored popular opinion. Since he is a lame duck now he’s just more brazen about it now.


28 posted on 12/25/2014 10:05:29 AM PST by Republican1795.
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To: Servant of the Cross

Obama always ignored popular opinion. Since he is a lame duck now he’s just more brazen about it now.


29 posted on 12/25/2014 10:05:38 AM PST by Republican1795.
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To: Servant of the Cross

Obama always ignored popular opinion. Since he is a lame duck now he’s just more brazen about it now.


30 posted on 12/25/2014 10:05:48 AM PST by Republican1795.
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To: nascarnation

I warned everyone here in 2012, watch out for the community organizer from south side of Chicago in his last 2 years when he has no more worries about elections. Buraq is a communist sympathizer, a wealth redistributionist, Muslim brotherhood sympathizer, hates USA, is lazy and worst of all had never run anything successfully in his entire life before lying his way into the White House.


31 posted on 12/25/2014 10:13:21 AM PST by entropy12 (Dumb and Dumber to borrow money from China to protect oil flow to China from middle-east.)
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To: Servant of the Cross
Obama can't do it alone.



32 posted on 12/25/2014 10:22:28 AM PST by Ray76 (Who gave the stand down order in Ferguson? Who gave the stand down order in Benghazi?)
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To: Servant of the Cross
"the feckless Boehner and McConnell"

They both need to go ASAP.

33 posted on 12/25/2014 10:22:39 AM PST by I am Richard Brandon
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To: Servant of the Cross

“Yet the feckless Boehner and McConnell do nothing to stop the unlawful ‘revolutionary’.”

There are also two former presidents from the Bush family who sit comfortably in silence while tyranny encroaches on the republic. Patriots they are not at a time when the nation needs them to speak out.

As Edmund Burke said: “The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.”


34 posted on 12/25/2014 10:24:42 AM PST by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

We live in a dictatorship. From what I’ve read most of the Germans were perfectly happy with Hitler. In the least, they certainly didn’t oppose him. I see the same here in America.


35 posted on 12/25/2014 10:44:49 AM PST by VerySadAmerican (My love affair with an abuser is over. Support a third party.)
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To: Servant of the Cross
You guys haven't seen anything yet. This guy hates America, especially white America. The lack of resistance concerning his unlawful actions is going to embolden him to truly push the limits.

This is a seriously dangerous precedent and the fact that republicans aren't storming the Bastille is telling.

36 posted on 12/25/2014 11:02:30 AM PST by LouAvul (If government is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Only cowardice on the Right allows this.


37 posted on 12/25/2014 11:02:54 AM PST by j.argese (Not anymore!)
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To: Servant of the Cross

He is covered by his cloak of black privilege, surrounded by an army of PC American sissies.

To be base him would cause riots in the streets.

Wait! We already have that.

Damn the race gaiters...full steam ahead.


38 posted on 12/25/2014 11:23:52 AM PST by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: WyCoKsRepublican
One man wrecking ball.

One with even less moral and intellectual substance than Miley Cyrus, which is quite an accomplishment.

39 posted on 12/25/2014 12:25:22 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Obama, a One-Man Revolution


IF you believe that then you’re delusional..
Obama is figurehead for several cabals of Traitors..

One Worlders, progressives, socialists and all manner of other Marxists..
All in UNITY against the United States..

Organized extremely aggressive and ruthless for sedition and treason..
THE ENEMY IS IN THE CAMP... I call for all to rise up.. in opposition..

America in Crisis
https://www.dropbox.com/s/iu92zs5gg2bwuy3/FIRE.avi?dl=0


40 posted on 12/25/2014 1:01:04 PM PST by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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