Flashback: Obama Praises 3 'Coequal Branches' of Gov’t, Preventing Tyranny

December 5, 2013 Penny Starr  

In his book “The Audacity of Hope,” President Barack Obama praised the Constitution and the federalism it enshrines, including the “three coequal” branches of government and checks on power that “prevent tyranny by either the few or the many." >“The outlines of Madison’s constitutional architecture are so familiar that even schoolchildren can recite them: not only rule of law and representative government, not just a bill of rights, but also the separation of the national government into three coequal branches, a bicameral Congress, and a concept of federalism that preserved authority in state governments, all of it designed to diffuse power, check factions, balance interests, and prevent tyranny by either the few or the many,” Obama, who taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School, said in the 2006 book. - See more at:  

My Take - I wonder if he has any idea what he says from one speech to the next? Since he keeps saying things he has to know are untrue and things that are diametrically opposed to things he has said at other times - one has to wonder if he believes in anything? 

I have questions:

•  If a person has no foundational belief system can he really be the 'smartest guy to ever be president'? 
• Smart people are people who build their views from the bottom up. 
• They believe in something. 
• That's the foundation for their views? 
• That's the foundation for their decisions. 
• That's the foundation for their thought processes.  
• The natural function of the human mind is to find patterns. But if you don't believe in anything is it possible to see the patterns in life - or for that matter - any issue of consequence.  
• Is it possible to see the patterns of history? 
• If you can't see the patterns of history because you have no solid foundational belief system - how can you have clarity of thought? 
• Defining things properly is what leads to clarity. 
• Clarity leads to understanding. 
• Understanding leads to good decision making. 
• Only then can we have harmony. 

But we don't have harmony because we don't a leaders with clarity, and without clarity no one can be ‘smart’, let alone the ‘smartest guy to ever be president’.