In foreign affairs, too, President Obama has almost entirely reversed himself. In 2007, he told the Boston Globe that presidents have no power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. That President Bush had abused his position, meanwhile, was a mainstay of Obama’s campaign. But, in the last three years, Obama has scoffed derisively at anybody who reminds him of this stance, insisting at each juncture that he is possessed of the authority to do exactly as he wishes as commander-in-chief, writes Charles C. W. Cooke, who only goes off the rails at the end of this op-ed in referring to Barack Obamas executive order on undocumented immigrants, which is far too limited & to timid to be imperial; its the stuff that right-wing Republicans like Cooke & the National Review support -- including NSA surveillance, drone strikes, military intervention abroad and, yes, deportation of undocumented immigrants -- that makes Obama the hypocritical imperator that Cooke otherwise accurately describes~! nationalreview/article/393111/obamas-imperial-transformation-now-complete-charles-c-w-cooke/page/0/1
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