On January 20, 2009, the current President took the oath of office as follow by declarings: I, Barack Hussain Obama do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Well, so much for that. Even though he was allegedly a Constitutional lawyer, he had expressed many times in prior years that in his opinion the Constitution was flawed. When you are an American citizen, you have the right to have your own opinions, but when you are the President, you are expected to live by the oath you swore upon taking the highest office in the land. The critical words in the oath being – to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution – therefore a President cannot pick and choose which laws he will preserve, protect and defend. As President, he has to preserve, protect and defend them all.
We do not have the resources or time to find out if all previous Presidents lived faithfully by their oaths, but we know one thing for sure, President Obama is most certainly not. As example, we cite his recent decision to no longer defend the Federal Law known as “Defense of Marriage Act”, also known as DOMA. This law was enacted in 1996 when then President Bill Clinton signed the law which defines marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman.
Candidate Obama campaigned in 2008 stating that he firmly believed that marriage was a union between one man and one woman. We do not know if that helped getting him elected President but it certainly did not hurt him. Forward to 2011, he is getting ready for his re-election bid in 2012 and it must appear to him politically advantages to change his mind in order to lock up the votes of the gay community in America. As a candidate, that might be alright to do but there is one minor difference now, he is also the President. In that capacity, he has to uphold ALL Federal laws and not start cherry-picking for political purposes.
We consider this illegal and even unlawful by a President. If a President can decide which Federal law he wants to continue to preserve, protect and defend based on political posturing, then our Constitution becomes just a useless document. What if Obama finds another voting block that would vote for him if he just ignored and no longer defended certain laws, would that be acceptable to the American people? We most certainly do not think so.
The liberal media is naturally a different story when it comes to the dubious actions of their beloved President, for them, he cannot do wrong! It’s that simple. They will defend him in everything he does regardless if it is lawful, constitutional or defendable. This is the reason why we have not heard anything from them in this Presidential flip-flop. The liberals love him for this in that it shows his smartness when it comes to politics.
If you want to know what’s wrong in America today, just observe the liberals and their fanatical co-hordes in the media. It is a sad case of extreme bias from an element in our country that is expected to be unbiased. When the Constitution can be shredded or altered for political gamesmanship, this country is losing its foundation very fast. It should not be accepted.