Obama claims presidents have power to 'violate' Constitution
Mediaite referenced a longer quote from Obama on the same subject: “If you disrespect the Constitution by threatening to shut down the press when it doesn’t say things you like or threaten to throw your opponent in jail or discriminate against people of different faiths – if you do that before you are elected, when what are you gonna do when you have actual power to do those things?”
It was an opening through which Hot Air blogger Larry O’Connor could not resist jumping.
O’Connor said it was “so ripe with irony,” it was tempting to “leave his quote as it is, without any commentary, and let the reader add their own remarks.”
“That’s right: the president whose actions have been over-ruled by the Supreme Court of the United States more than any other modern president is accusing Donald Trump of ‘disrespect(ing) the Constitution.'”...
