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CRedskinsRule · 01-28-2010, 07:15 AM

The "bad" thing, as I see it, is that at 2 points in the speech Obama had a chance to acknowledge the Checks and Balances of the US Constitution: first by acknowledging the Supreme Court's decision and 2nd by acknowledging the Congress' authority. In the first instance he called out the SC, and in the second he said he was going to ignore the senate vote and use an executive decision. Are these major changes to current policy procedure, probably not, but openly antagonizing the other branches, and using the presidency to demean them is not change we should believe in. Unless of course we missed the part where Lord Obama was given the cloak of infallibility.

01-28-2010, 07:15 AM	#5
CRedskinsRule Living Legend Join Date: Aug 2008 Age: 58 Posts: 21,703	Re: State of the Union (1/27/10) The "bad" thing, as I see it, is that at 2 points in the speech Obama had a chance to acknowledge the Checks and Balances of the US Constitution: first by acknowledging the Supreme Court's decision and 2nd by acknowledging the Congress' authority. In the first instance he called out the SC, and in the second he said he was going to ignore the senate vote and use an executive decision. Are these major changes to current policy procedure, probably not, but openly antagonizing the other branches, and using the presidency to demean them is not change we should believe in. Unless of course we missed the part where Lord Obama was given the cloak of infallibility.