Obama is not doing his job

[Quantum Windbag]

If you are a part of the group that thinks it makes sense to trade freedom for safety you should demand that the people you make that trade with understand that it does not give them a license to keep taking freedom just because they think it makes people safe. Obama says he believes that there should be limits on the government, but he also thinks we should trust the government.

If he wants us to trust the government, he has to give us a government that is trustworthy, not one that lies to us. One that protects our rights, not one that can ignore due process and the 1st Amendment. He needs to give us a government that, even when it has a legitimate need to investigate something, does not ignore the 4th Amendment in the process.

His job is to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, not to complain that it makes his job harder. There is absolutely nothing in the Constitution that makes it harder for Obama to preserve the Constitution.

Government is bad for personal freedom. That argument is premised upon the truism that everything government does interferes with freedom because it either prohibits or compels. Everything it owns it has taken from others. Much of what it says is divorced from the truth. President Obama, like President George W. Bush, has argued that his first job is to keep America safe, and if he impairs personal freedom in the process, that is a small price to pay for safety. Many of my colleagues in the media on the left and right have bought this argument, notwithstanding its fallacies.
Until now.
This past week, we learned that the IRS has targeted for additional scrutiny the tax exemption applications of groups with whose messages it disagrees. We also learned that the Department of Justice obtained the personal telephone records of hundreds of reporters and editors employed by the Associated Press without a search warrant issued by a judge. And during this past week we learned that the White House, the Department of State and the CIA all engaged in a conspiracy of disinformation so that the official version of events of what caused the murders of four Americans at our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, would not impair Obama's re-election campaign in 2012.
The common threads in all of this government secrecy and lying are a general rejection of government's moral obligation to tell the truth, a disturbing yet brazen willingness to evade and avoid the restrictions the Constitution has deliberately built around government, and a glib admission that the government can do as it pleases so long as it can politically get away with it.

President Obama Is Not Doing His Job - Reason.com

 

[TemplarKormac]

What made you think he was doing his job to start with?