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- Title: President of Everything: Much As He Complained About His Predecessor's Imperial Reach, From Cars to Companies Nothing Eludes Barack Obama's Grasp (Absolute Power) (Cover Story)
- Author : The American Conservative
- Release Date : January 20, 2009
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 75 KB
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IN DECEMBER 2007, Sen. Barack Obama's reassurances to the Boston Globe suggested that he understood constitutional limits on executive and government power. He knew that there were things the "president does not have power under the Constitution" to do, including unilaterally authorizing military action and surveilling citizens without warrants. He said he would "reject the Bush administration's claim that the president has plenary authority under the Constitution to detain U.S. citizens without charges as unlawful enemy combatants." That thoughtful skeptic of executive power now sits in the Oval Office. Isolating random bits of his presidential rhetoric, you can almost believe that he understands how a society really thrives. Obama said in his pseudo-State of the Union Address, "The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth."