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The President should only take military action without approval of Congress when there is an imminent threat. I’m talking about the standing Army of Iran or Iraq right at our borders. But wait…those countries don’t have a standing army…

Killing Gaddafi would be a war crime because it clearly qualifies as an act of “treachery” under Article 23 of the Hague Convention IV of 1907. Even in times of declared war, assassinating a leader under false pretenses is illegal.

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and British Prime Minister David Cameron have all gone on record to state that Gaddafi “must go,” “needs to go,” and has “lost his legitimacy”. The targeted bomb strikes on his compound confirm this detail

Since the assault was launched under UN auspices with the presumed “legitimacy” of the international community, it directly violates the UN’s own charter in that the entire scope of the mission is about regime change, supporting one side in a civil war, and has nothing whatsoever to do with “protecting civilians”.

As Commander in Chief he is also responsible for the US Army ‘kill team’ in Afghanistan who posed for photos of murdered civilians for sport

War is Illegal

"All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered.

"All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations."

He is on O’Reilly now.

Weiner should go to jail.

"It’s clear we’re one step away from a financial meltdown," said Nouriel Roubini, chairman of the consulting firm RGE Monitor.

"A failed plan to rescue Lehman Brothers was followed Sunday by more seismic shocks from Wall Street, including an apparent government-brokered takeover of Merrill Lynch by the Bank of America.

The deal would not come without risks, however. Merrill Lynch, like many of its Wall Street peers, has been struggling with tight credit markets and billions of dollars in assets tied to mortgages that have plunged in value. Merrill has reported four straight quarterly losses.

The weekend’s developments will likely spur a much greater focus by presidential candidates — Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama — and members of Congress on the need for stricter financial regulation."

Where’s the hue and cry for more deregulation and free trade. Now if the federal reserve and governments step in to bail these firms out, wouldn’t that be socialism? Can’t Wall Street let the chips fall where they may? Whatever happened to that good old capitalistic ideal of sink or swim.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/financial_meltdown

You are right, they should be allowed to fail. The taxpayers should have to bare the risk. The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have put trillions of dollars of risk on the taxpayers.

"…..Ten months into his presidential bid, Rudolph W. Giuliani continues to work part time at the security consulting firm he promised to leave this past spring to focus on his pursuit of the Republican nomination.

Giuliani’s continuing involvement with a firm catering to corporate clients makes him unique among Republican contenders. It also complicates the task of separating his firm’s assets from his campaign spending…."

They knew the fear that Americans have in their hearts.

And they capitalized on that fear big time!

In theory, congress initiates legislation, and the president can either veto it or sign into law.

However, in practice, the president has power because he is the focal point for fund raising, has an incredibly powerful administration, has been given a lot of power from congress to do all kinds of things, and often congress wins their seats by siding with the president. This is especially true if the president reflects the views of the power structure in society, which is dominated by corporations and the wealthy (in my opinion). If the president says something, like, ‘Let’s go invade Iraq and sell of it’s oil to European companies’, congress will go along not simply because they fear the president, but because the fear the oil money he is representing.

That is why conservative, war mongering presidents that support big corporations, oil, defense contracts have so much power. In fact, presidents so routinely submit budgets through their friends in congress, that people call such legislation ‘the Presidential Budget’. You hear all the time of ‘The President’s bill’ like war authorizations and the like.

But in Obama’s case, he does not represent the war and corporate interests as much as, say Bush, and so even though he had a majority in congress, there was a coalition of Republicans and conservative democrats that blocked and perverted his legislation. Every bill was a compromise.

Nonetheless, he did get a lot accomplished (see polifact.org).

Republican Party?
btw
has he appeared anywhere or did he speak at any commencement exercises?

How can you simultaneously give bush credit for a 14000 DOW, which was a bubble by the way, and not give him credit for the economy right now. What has Obama done in 4 months that caused the economy to start going bad in 2005?

You people are insane.

2. Opposing racial equality.

3. Opposing giving blacks the right to vote, serve on juries or intermarry while allegedly supporting their natural rights.

4. Being a racist.

5. Supporting the legal rights of slaveholders.

6. Supporting Clay’s American System or mercantilism as his primary political agenda: national bank, high tariff, and internal improvements.

7. Supporting a political economy that encourages corruption and inefficiency.

8. Supporting a political economy that became the blueprint for modern American.

9. Being a wealthy railroad lawyer.

10. Never defending a runaway slave.

11. Defending a slaveholder against his runaway slave.

12. Favoring returning ex-slaves to Africa or sending them to Central America and Haiti.

13. Proposing to strengthen the Fugitive Slave law.

14. Opposing the extension of slavery in the territories so that "free white people" can settle there and because allowing them to become slave states would dilute Republican influence in Congress because of the three-fifths rule.

15. Opposing black citizenship in Illinois or their right to immigrate to that state.

16. Failing to use his legendary political skills to achieve peaceful emancipation as was accomplished elsewhere–Lincoln’s war was the only "war of emancipation" in the 19th century.

17. Nullifying emancipation of slaves in Missouri and Georgia early in the war.

18. Stating that his primary motive was saving the union and not ending slavery.

19. Supporting a conscription law.

20. Sending troops into New York City to quell draft riots related to his emancipation proclamation, resulting in 300 to 1,000 deaths.

21. Starting a war that took the lives of 620,000 soldiers and 50,000 civilians and caused incalculable economic loss.

22. Being an enemy of free market capitalism.

23. Being an economic illiterate and espousing the labor theory of value.

24. Supporting a disastrous public works project in Illinois and continuing to support the same policies oblivious of the consequences.

25. Conjuring up a specious and deceptive argument against the historically-recognized right of state secession.

26. Lying about re-supplying the fed’s tax collection office known as Fort Sumter.

27. Refusing to see peace commissioners from the Confederacy offering to pay for all federal property in the South.

28. Refusing to see Napoleon III of France who offered to mediate the dispute.

29. Provoking Virginia to secede by taking military action against the Deep South.

30. Supporting a tariff and other policies that systematically redistributed wealth from the South to the North, causing great consternation in the South.

31. Invading the South without consulting Congress.

32. Illegally declaring martial law.

33. Illegally blockading ports.

34. Illegally suspending habeas corpus.

35. Illegally imprisoning thousands of Northern citizens.

36. Tolerating their subjection to inhumane conditions in prison.

37. Systematically attacking Northern newspapers and their employees, including by imprisonment.

38. Deporting his chief political enemy in the North, Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio.

39. Confiscating private property and firearms.

40. Ignoring the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.

41. Tolerating the arrest of ministers who refused to pray for Lincoln.

42. Arresting several duly elected members of the Maryland Legislature along with the mayor of Baltimore and Maryland Congressman Henry May.

43. Placing Kansas and Kentucky under martial law.

44. Supporting a law that indemnified public officials for unlawful acts.

45. Laying the groundwork for the establishment of conscription and income taxation as permanent institutions.

46. Interfering with and rigging elections in Maryland and elsewhere in the North.

47. Censoring all telegraph communication.

48. Preventing opposition newspapers from being delivered by the post office.

49. Illegally creating the state of West Virginia out of the "indestructible" state of Virginia.

50. Tolerating or supporting mistreatment of citizens in conquered territory.

51. Taxing those citizens without their consent.

52. Executing those who refused to take a loyalty oath.

53.Closing churches and arresting ministers.

54. Burning and plundering Southern cites.

55. Quartering troops in private homes unlawfully.

56. reating an enormous political patronage system.

57. Allowing an unjust mass execution of Sioux Indians in Minnesota.

58. Engineering a constitutional revolution through military force which destroyed state sovereignty and replaced it with rule by the Supreme Court (and the United States Army).

59. Laying the groundwork for the imperialist and militarist campaigns of the future as well as the welfare/warfare state.

60. Creating the dangerous precedent of establishing a strong consolidated state out of a decentralized confederation.

61. Effectively killing secession as a threat, thus encouraging the rise of our modern federal monolith.

62. Waging war on civilians by bombing, destruction of homes, and confiscation of food and farm equipment.

63. Tolerating an atmosphere which led to large numbers of rapes against Southern women, including slaves.

64. Using civilians as hostages.

65. Promoting a general because of his willingness to use his troops as cannon fodder.

66. DiLorenzo blames Lincoln for the predictable aftermath of the war: the plundering of the South by Lincoln’s allies.

67. Supporting government subsidies of the railroads leading to corruption and inefficiency.

68. Supporting a nationalized paper currency which is inherently inflationary.

69. Creating the federal tax bureaucracy and various taxes that are still with us.

70. Establishing precedents for centralized powers and suppression of liberties that continue to be cited today.

71. Ending slavery by means that created turbulence that continues to this day.
DiLorenzo and His Critics on the Lincoln Myth
By James Ostrowski
April 2003

http://www.mises.org/etexts/ostrowski.asp

It is interesting that when presidents get into trouble they often quote Lincoln?! I have even read and heard how George Walker Bush is now being compared to Lincoln. The comparison between Lincoln’s constitutional violations versus Bush’s PATRIOT ACT is indeed disconcerting. Violating the Constitution and the Bill of Rights by both these presidents can only be measured by the outside influences of the international bankers and the multinational corporations. In defense of Lincoln, it was he that opposed the Reconstruction policies by the radical Republicans of the north. Bush on the other hand has sold the American people lock stock and barrel to the globalists; the very same international financiers and multinational corporations that confronted Lincoln. We know what happened to Lincoln. What will become of Bush?

I appreciated your list of points concerning Lincoln’s presidency. If you could, please list under added details the sources in which you derived your information. Thank you.