We’ve got congressional oversight and judicial oversight. And if people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress and don’t trust federal judges to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution, due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here.
–Barack Obama
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Somewhat ambiguous, perhaps because I don’t know the context. It could mean: if the institutions of government behave in a way that puts in doubt their respect for the Constitution etc., then we’ll have problems. But it could also mean: if the people are insubordinate and insufficiently willing to abide by the leaders’ decisions, then we’ll have problems. Different problems, presumably.
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The second intention is not implausible. Either way, it just struck me as funny because of his and his party’s role in creating the situation he’s complaining about. It’s a recurring pattern with him.
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Funny, yes, and also creepy.
So often when I hear or read Obama’s words, I feel as if I’m listening to movie dialogue. What you posted could have come from the mouth of a Jack Nicholson character. -
Heh. Indeed. It also made me think of that old joke about the guy who killed his parents and then asked the court for mercy because he was an orphan.
Or many a classic story of a cheating spouse aggrieved at not being trusted. -
Yes, I can hear him in my mind’s ear. He’s got a certain tone that’s partly reproving, partly warning. Whom does he think he’s scolding?
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The people, who persistently disappoint him.
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The second intention is not implausible. Either way, it just struck me as funny because of his and his party’s role in creating the situation he’s complaining about. It’s a recurring pattern with him.
An aspect is the matrix in which he has spent his life. I have tangles in fora like this with committed leftists (and not ones who are crude insult machines, either) and they are almost immune to the notion that their policy preferences are something other than constitutionally mandated and barely able to tolerate dissent that is not stated in the most deferential terms. These phenomena are not new, but they seem to get worse and worse as time goes on, if not worse monotonically.
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