{"id":9113,"date":"2013-02-16T03:05:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T11:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9113"},"modified":"2013-02-16T03:05:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T11:05:52","slug":"so-fking-what-obama-aint-no-emperor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9113","title":{"rendered":"So F**king What? Obama Aint No Emperor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weasels at Fox News must be working overtime to find new ways to demonize President Obama as a tyrannical defiler of freedom. They seem to love nothing more than inventing paranoid conspiracies wherein the President is plotting to crown himself king and drag patriotic teabaggers off to reeducation camps. Of course the first flaw in that theory is that you would have to be educated in order to be reeducated.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week Obama participated in a Google Hangout event and was asked about his immigration policy. Specifically, the questioner wanted to know what he would do to prevent deportations that resulted in the break up of families. Obama responded…<\/p>\n

“This is something I\u2019ve struggled with throughout my presidency. The problem is that I\u2019m the president of the United States, I\u2019m not the emperor of the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed. And congress right now has not changed what I consider to be a broken immigration system. And what that means is that we have certain obligations to enforce the laws that are in place even if we think that in many cases the results may be tragic.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the President’s thoughtful response was that his administration was required to act in accordance with existing law and would do so until such time as those laws were changed. But the wingnut brain instinctively edits Obama’s utterances to conform with their twisted preconceptions. Consequently, all they heard was “The problem is…I\u2019m not the emperor of the United States.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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So F**king What?<\/h4>\n

The obvious point the President was making was that the American system of government requires some measure of cooperation between equal branches of government. He wasn’t knocking it or proposing that he be elevated to Supreme Leader. He was merely explaining why he could not unilaterally revoke existing laws with which he has objections and impose his version.<\/p>\n

Rather than accurately report the exchange, Fox Nation posted the most wildly distorted misrepresentation of what the President said and left it to their dimwitted audience to wallow in a fear-soaked nightmare of an impending dictatorship ruled by a freedom-hating, devil worshiper who wasn’t even born here. And, as usual, their outrage is reserved for Obama despite the fact that the previous Republican president made similar remarks with not so much as a whimper from the right:<\/p>\n