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Obama's Most Dangerous Promise

Anonymous3224 Wrote: Sep 04, 2012 9:35 PM

So if he's not going to work with the GOP, but he's conceding that Congress will be in GOP hands, what's he going to do? He's too full of himself to sit back and cast blame: he doesn't have to get re-elected, so he doesn't need such subterfuge. The only possibility left is that he's going to rule by executive decree and dare Congress to stop him. In other words, Obama has just admitted that he's going to go for full-on autocracy if he wins.

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Obama's Most Dangerous Promise

In a lengthy piece comparing the Obama campaign of 2012 to his triumphant 2008 campaign, the Wall Street Journal reported that the president told aides that his most important first term mistake involved his efforts to work with Republicans and he promised he’d never repeat that mistake in the future.

Ironically, a simultaneous report indicated the president’s plans to spend less time campaigning for Congressional Democrats, in view of fading prospects for his party to recapture the House. In other words, Obama insists he won’t try to work with Republicans even while his own campaign acknowledges the GOP is...