{"id":9794,"date":"2012-04-05T14:51:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T14:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/05\/obama-on-constitutional-law-did-he-lie-or-is-he-just-ignorant\/"},"modified":"2012-04-05T14:51:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T14:51:37","slug":"obama-on-constitutional-law-did-he-lie-or-is-he-just-ignorant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/05\/obama-on-constitutional-law-did-he-lie-or-is-he-just-ignorant\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama on Constitutional Law: Did He Lie or Is He Just Ignorant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Asked recently whether SCOTUS would uphold the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) or strike it down as unconstitutional, President Obama replied, &quot;I&#39;m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.&quot;&#0160; Strong majority?&#0160; &#0160;Unprecedented?&#0160; As a former law professor, Obama must know that what he said was false.&#0160; Now a false statement is not the same as a lie.&#0160; For a false statement to be a lie it must be made with the intention to deceive.&#0160; But since the statement in question is one that one would reasonably expect a former law professor to know is false, then it is reasonable to suspect a lie on Obama&#39;s part.&#0160; Thomas Sowell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creators.com\/opinion\/thomas-sowell\/political-word-games.html\" target=\"_self\">concludes<\/a> that &quot;he is simply lying.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">James Taranto rather more charitably <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303816504577321844137787970.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion\" target=\"_self\">maintains<\/a> that &quot;The president is stunningly ignorant about constitutional law.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Peter Wehner in a seeming synthesis of Sowell and Taranto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/2012\/04\/04\/obama-congress-and-the-constitution\/\" target=\"_self\">opines<\/a> that Obama &quot;jumped the shark.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Daniel Henninger <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303299604577323802316101544.html\" target=\"_self\">piles on<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/295199\/president-petulant-john-fund\" target=\"_self\">John Fund<\/a>, &quot;There appear to be few limits on how far President Obama will distort the facts.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Obama is a disaster for the country.&#0160; He is ignorant\/dishonest not only with respect to constitutional law, but also about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/295181\/obama-s-america-yuval-levin\" target=\"_self\">debt crisis<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked recently whether SCOTUS would uphold the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) or strike it down as unconstitutional, President Obama replied, &quot;I&#39;m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.&quot;&#0160; Strong majority?&#0160; &#0160;Unprecedented?&#0160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/05\/obama-on-constitutional-law-did-he-lie-or-is-he-just-ignorant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama on Constitutional Law: Did He Lie or Is He Just Ignorant?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}