Mitt Romney is a tyrant

Need proof? Check out Romney’s own carefully crafted words. Let Glenn Greenwald be your tour guide.

These are just some of the powers which Romney — and, among the respondents, Romney alone — claimed the President possesses, either by explicitly claiming them or refusing to repudiate them when asked directly:

* to eavesdrop on Americans with no warrants, even if doing so is in violation of Congressional law (Question 1).

* to attack Iran without Congressional authorization, even in the absence of an imminent threat (Question 2).

* to disregard a congressional statute limiting the deployment of troops (Question 3).

* to issue a signing statement reserving a constitutional right to bypass laws enacted by Congress (Question 4).

* to disregard international human rights treaties that the US Senate has ratified where said treaties, in his view, “impinge upon the President’s constitutional authority” (Question 8 ).

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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    the chaplain January 10, 2008 Reply

    Has Romney ever read the Constitution? Perhaps every newly elected president should be required to attend a course in Constitutional law before being inaugurated.

  2. Avatar of grumpypilgrim
    grumpypilgrim January 10, 2008 Reply

    the chaplain's comment exposes a surprising aspect of the American presidency: no objective competency requirement. We require garbage truck drivers, hair stylists and many other skilled workers to have special training and to earn a competency-based license, yet no competence requirement exists to be the leader of the free world. That might be a good thing for people like George Jr. or Ronny Reagan, but not so good for the rest of humanity.

  4. Avatar of Dan Klarmann
    Dan Klarmann January 19, 2008 Reply

    "Technically, Aristotle was describing how changing the inflection of a Greek word could change its meaning. But that's not how we use it. "

    More like entrance (the way in) vs. entrance (to hypnotize)

  5. Avatar of Erich Vieth
    Erich Vieth February 5, 2008 Reply

    When Mitt Romney lies, he makes it worth our while:

    "I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam."

    – Mitt Romney, Boston Globe, 6/24/07

    "I was not planning on signing up for the military. It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam."

    – Mitt Romney, Boston Herald, 5/2/94

    For the full post by Chris Kelly, go here.

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