By unilaterally going to war against Libya, Obama is bringing America closer to the imperial presidency than Bush ever did.
BY BRUCE ACKERMAN | MARCH 24, 2011
“In taking the country into a war with Libya, Barack Obama’s administration is breaking new ground in its construction of an imperial presidency — an executive who increasingly acts independently of Congress at home and abroad. Obtaining a U.N. Security Council resolution has legitimated U.S. bombing raids under international law. But the U.N. Charter is not a substitute for the U.S. Constitution, which gives Congress, not the president, the power “to declare war.”
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Does this surprise anyone? ………………………………………………………………………………………….I didn’t think so. The guy has no concept of what the USA is or stands for. He is alien in more than one sense of the word.
Obama makes me sad to be alive and I spit at those who supported him, truly, it allmakes me sad and amazed
What you should be surprised about is how well a political system can divide people.
If you do not realize that Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush sr. and even Reagan are heads of the same hydra; then you truly have been conquered and divided.
A two party system that serve the same corporate interests will never be good for any country.