Posted by
Bill Crawford on Friday, March 13, 2009 12:24:23 PM
...Unlike George W. Bush, that is. Last year, Obama was quite clear on what he thought of the nature of Presidential signing statements- basically a unholy power grab by the Executive branch.
He was also quite clear that, having taught Constitutional Law for ten years, he had a respect for the Constitution which would not allow him to follow that fashion.
That is, until the first month he took the office. Now, there doesn't seem to be any problem with it.
Such is the world of a moral relativist. Obama does not seem to care a whit about being consistent. If anybody questions him on this, they are not "looking at the big picture" or "the larger context".
Before I understood this peculiarity, the not caring about it by the left used to confuse me. After all, they know enough about logic and consistency to hammer their detractors with questions when they sense a problem. They know that consistency is important to conservatives, and they freely use it against them.
Those rules just don't apply to them. They are special.