Obama's "Abuse of Power" (and Is That Something Pink I See?) - Granite Grok

Obama’s “Abuse of Power” (and Is That Something Pink I See?)

It isObama Syria Iraq Peace Prize a suitable whipping boy when you need it, and a laxative when you want it…

In a May 2013 speech to a military audience at the National Defense University, Mr. Obama portrayed the law (President Bush’s Authorization for Use of Military Force resolution in 2001) as dated and as a potential blank check to get the U.S. into wars.

“The AUMF is now nearly 12 years old,” he said. “Unless we discipline our thinking, our definitions, our actions, we may be drawn into more wars we don’t need to fight, or continue to grant presidents unbound powers more suited for traditional armed conflicts between nation states.”

The White House now claims that President Bush’s Authorization for Use of Military Force resolution gives Mr. Obama the unilateral authority to unbind the colon of presidential power, allowing him to use military force in Iraq whenever it pleases him to do so.

Code Pink, to their credit, object to Obama’s “war mongering” but they’ve found that things are different now…

“We’ve been protesting Obama’s foreign policy for years now, but we can’t get the same numbers because the people who would’ve been yelling and screaming about this stuff under Bush are quiet under Obama,” she said.

“We’re smaller. We lost a lot of people who didn’t like us criticizing Obama.

She said she expected better of President Obama and that it “feels terrible” to have to protest against a member of the Democratic Party.

“It feels surreal,” she said. “It seems like this country is so topsy-turvy when you have Code Pink and Rand Paul on the same side of foreign policy issues.”

Something else Code Pink does not have with a Democrat president…24/7 media exposure from the likes of CNN, MSNBC, and the alphabet networks.

 

Washington Times – Use of force

Washington Times – Code Pink

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