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Obama Has Given America A Government Of Unchecked Power While Taking Away Liberty
Forbes ^ | October 28, 2016 | George Leef

Posted on 10/29/2016 2:14:25 PM PDT by reaganaut1

Barack Obama said he wanted to transform America and in many ways he has succeeded.

The problem is that his transformation has done enormous and perhaps irreparable damage to the nation by demolishing the people’s confidence that our laws will be impartially enforced. Instead of, as the Constitution requires of the president, taking care that the laws be faithfully executed, Obama and his minions have operated under a completely different concept – that the laws will be enforced (or not) with the objective of maintaining the incumbent party in power.

If you doubt that, I recommend reading Liberty’s Nemesis, published earlier this year by Encounter Books.

Editors Dean Reuter and John Yoo have collected there twenty-six excellent essays to make the big point that the Constitution’s carefully wrought system of divided power and checks and balances meant to protect against the dangerous concentration of governmental power has been so weakened that it now barely functions.

We face, as the book’s subtitle puts it, the unchecked expansion of the state. That unchecked power did not begin with Obama, but his administration has pushed us far into uncharted waters of uncontrolled executive power. As a result, the people’s liberty has taken a beating and the old concept of the rule of law has become a bad joke.

Readers will probably be at least somewhat familiar with most of the topics covered, including the legerdemain of Obamacare, the administration’s efforts to prevent people from acquiring guns and ammunition, the unprecedented aggression of the National Labor Relations Board in pushing unionism, Operation Choke Point’s illegal strangling of lawful businesses through abusive banking regulation, interference in state voting laws where it helps Democrats, the IRS’s targeting of groups that oppose Obama’s agenda, the funneling of settlement money into left-wing activist organizations, and much more.

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; fascism; freedom; leftism; liberty; obama; progressives; progressivism; statism

1 posted on 10/29/2016 2:14:25 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

There isn’t a faithful bone in OBAMA’s body!


2 posted on 10/29/2016 2:21:52 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: reaganaut1

Obama has effectively suspended the Constitutional ‘rule of law’ provisions, and replaced it with Saul Alinski’s ‘rules for radicals’


3 posted on 10/29/2016 2:21:56 PM PDT by 11th_VA (#boycottNFL)
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To: reaganaut1

There’s nothing “liberal” about today’s so-called “liberals” because they are not classical liberals who derived their political beliefs from the concept of LIBERTY.

LEFT-Wingers like Obama do not stand for LIBERTY and are not liberal in the true sense of the word. They are SOCIOECONOMIC FASCISTS.

They want to CONTROL our society and our economy.


4 posted on 10/29/2016 2:26:12 PM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: reaganaut1

Yep.

Obama and his minions are taking over.

And you voted for it America.

So thank you. :)


5 posted on 10/29/2016 2:28:40 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: reaganaut1


6 posted on 10/29/2016 2:31:23 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: reaganaut1

Where the government fears the people, you have liberty.
Where the people fear government, you have tyranny.

This is our last chance to take back our country.
Peacefully.


7 posted on 10/29/2016 2:35:57 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: reaganaut1

Yes, That’s what Marxists do.


8 posted on 10/29/2016 2:38:46 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: 11th_VA

Americans should have been suspicious of Obama back in 2008 when he attended that hate-filled church, but no, they voted for him TWICE, anyway. America always gets what it deserves. I hope it deserves Trump today. Trump MAGA. Trump MAGA. Trump MAGA. Trump MAGA. Trump MAGA. Trump MAGA. Trump MAGA. Trump MAGA. Trump MAGA.


9 posted on 10/29/2016 2:41:27 PM PDT by 353FMG (TRUMP IS ALL THAT MATTERS)
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To: All
The brilliant Dr Sebastian Gorka---a frequent Fox guest---summed up Obama (and the Clintons) beautifully:

"They don't believe in objective truth. They're post- secular modernists. They believe in cultural relativism.......that all cultures are equal..... except America, which (in their minds) is worse than everybody else."

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ANALYSIS The spoken truth is what THEY say it is.....it must be stripped of any concept of 2000 years of man's knowledge of right and wrong.

2008 candidate Obama’s calm cool voice of reason was supposed to prevail. Remember when Obama calmly assured America that once he was elected all Mideast “hostilities” would cease. A confident Obama would make sure America was once again “respected” around the world. And who could forget Obama’s “Arab Spring” when all of the terrorists would suddenly become sap-happy humanitarians, weaving daisy chains while frolicking around the May pole?

2012 Ohaha used the same conniving 2008 strategy patented by PR honcho Anita (Mao) Dunn---to manipulate voters, to downplay Ohaha's bgrnd, his destructive policies ....and his scary plans for his next term.

Remember, Dunn said back then, that THEY and only THEY decided what the media and the voters should know about 2008 candidate Ohaha. The strategy was to have Ohaha and his shady handlers play the innocents---the "don't worry--we're harmless" act.

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The WH is teeming with kingpins of crooked Chicago politics. Voter fraud is the Chi/mobs specialty.

Let us not forget----the minute they hit the WH, the Chi/mob went into action: (1) the WH Chi/mob took over the census---and have all the CV they need to file phony FEC reports using stolen federal dollars as campaign contributions. (2) Plus COS Rham (The Godfather) Emanuel was put in charge of the US Treasury.

2012 Ohaha even bragged his was the first "billion dollar" campaign---a creepy way to show how "popular" he is (gag).

As Judge Judy would say: "Show me where you got the money to pay for this."

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Remember this? Many viewers were appalled at Biden's smirking, smiling, sneering, interrupting, mugging, being sarcastic when Ryan spoke.

But to women victims of spousal abuse, Biden’s rude laughs, snorts and sneers, his hectoring and mugging displayed Dems' in a more nefarious light.

Women who've suffered spousal abuse said they could barely watch the debate-—b/c they were unnerved by Biden’s antics. They say Biden eerily reminded them of abusive husbands. All the tactics abusive men use to brutalize and demean, to make women feel inadequate and unimportant were the tactics Biden used to beat down Ryan::

(1) not listening to their side,

(2) interrupting when they dared speak up,

(3) laughing and mugging when they tried to air their grievances,

(4) demeaning and marginalizing them for daring to disagree,

(5) asserting superority to keep them subjugated,

(6) showing contempt when they tried to defend themselves,

(7) being condescending to them and disdainful of their views.

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Women victims of spouse abuse were unsettled by Biden’s behavior. Those who say Biden “won” the debate-—must be all men.

10 posted on 10/29/2016 2:43:40 PM PDT by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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11 posted on 10/29/2016 2:52:05 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: 353FMG

If Trump had been running in 2008, he may not have won, but guranteed the “Reverend” Wright story would never have gone a away and he would have called him Hussein at every rally. He also would have addressed his Muslim upbringing. Trump would have insisted on seeing his birth certifiate before the election during the campaign. Instead we got the horrid, chicken shit McCain who told us not to be afraid of BO.


12 posted on 10/29/2016 3:12:12 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: reaganaut1

No one challenged this arrogant little half breed affirmative action imposter because he was black and nothing more! They were all afraid because he was black


13 posted on 10/29/2016 3:26:00 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: 353FMG

It is multi national, staging wars etc for their purposes, I expect Russia, Iran, obamma, and soros type NWO types..
I think if it turns ugly it will be real bad quick.


14 posted on 10/29/2016 3:36:10 PM PDT by aces ( Islam is the religion of the dead, Got Jesus?)
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To: reaganaut1
The only possible lasting recovery from these past 8-years of tyranny begins with the guillotine... Otherwise, nothing will truly change...
15 posted on 10/29/2016 3:44:06 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: reaganaut1

Very good article as well the other on that was linked to in this article entitled: Rand Paul Kicks The Hornets’ Nest By Praising The Lochner Decision


16 posted on 10/29/2016 4:21:27 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: reaganaut1

And he didn’t even mention Obama selling M-16s to Mexican drug lords.


17 posted on 10/29/2016 4:42:26 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: reaganaut1

bmp


18 posted on 10/29/2016 11:49:34 PM PDT by gattaca (Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
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To: 11th_VA

There is only one thing I struggle with and that is trying to understand how so many people who are able to walk and chew gum at the same time were SILLY enough to expect good things from electing a totally unqualified in all respects candidate who cannot possibly be a natural born citizen and who made it plain that he intended to destroy this country. What did they think “fundamental transformation” meant? When someone tells you that this is the greatest country that has ever existed and then asks you to help him change it you have to be very stupid not to ask the obvious question.


19 posted on 10/31/2016 5:47:33 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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