Commentary

Contempt for the Governed: Obama’s End-Run Around the Democratic Process

By Troy Senik
Thursday, November 03 2011

President Obama is a man for whom the founding legacy of the United States seems little more than a perpetual irritant.

This is the man, remember, who said on Chicago public radio in 2001 that one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was that it didn’t move beyond the constitution’s limits on government power to “bring about redistributive change.”

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