{"id":186954,"date":"2013-08-11T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/08\/11\/worst-constitutional-law-professor-ever-4\/"},"modified":"2013-08-11T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T01:57:00","slug":"worst-constitutional-law-professor-ever-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/08\/11\/worst-constitutional-law-professor-ever-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst Constitutional Law Professor Ever\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/08\/09\/remarks-president-press-conference\">White House transcripts of the most recent press conference<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Q: Can you understand, though, why some people might not trust what you&#8217;re saying right now about wanting to &#8212;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">THE PRESIDENT: No, I can\u2019t.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is wrong on <b>so<\/b> many levels:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The constitution was explicitly created to make sure that we <b>did not have to trust<\/b> the authorities.&nbsp; It was intended to create contention, and quite honestly distrust, to make sure that powers are limited.<\/li>\n<li>He <b>does not understand<\/b> how people might be concerned that he might not be completely forthcoming. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am not sure what is more alarming, his complete lack of understanding of the critical in the Constitution concept of the separation of powers, or the pervasive narcissism.<\/p>\n<p>I would be hard pressed to find a better illustration of why the founding fathers were concerned about the possibility of excesses by the executive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at the White House transcripts of the most recent press conference: Q: Can you understand, though, why some people might not trust what you&#8217;re saying right now about wanting to &#8212; THE PRESIDENT: No, I can\u2019t. This is wrong on so many levels: The constitution was explicitly created to make sure that we did &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,971,1097,1009,1103,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-civil-rights","category-constitution","category-government","category-secrecy","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}