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I most often find myself in agreement with Paul, but not this time. He argues theory, which I agree with, but ignores the reality we have already experienced. I had this to say:
straightarrow says:
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You are correct in theory, but not in actuality. If what you say were absolute, none of our recent presidents were officeholders, because each of them have violated the structure that provides for the office. In reality they have exercised power that is not theirs to exercise and now are extending that power to others outside our nation.
Reality always trumps theory until the theorists impose, usually by force, the pure essence of the theory. As did our founders.
Wayne Fincher as anyone with even a modicum of intelligence knows was in the right and is supported by the Constitution of These United States. Yet, he sits in prison, because the real exercise of illegitimate power was used to put him there. Had the proposition you forward above held, Jimm Larry Hendren would be in jail, the presidency would have been vacated and the Department of Justice (ha) would have been disbanded. Sorry, it takes boots on the ground willing to do unpleasant things to force adherence to the rules. So far we have not enough people willing to do unpleasant things.
Therefore, the constitution means whatever those in power decide what it means at any time . We have seen words bastardized to the point of unrecognizability, to glean the meaning any and every despot wants it to mean to accomplish whatever transitory whims they may hold to rule us. Rule us, not govern, rule.
While I normally am in alignment with most of what you do here, this is one I cannot buy. The point in our history has passed when we can hold their feet to the fire and make them do right, unless we literally hold their feet to the fire. But, again we hit that wall. The one where not enough of us are willing to do unpleasant things to set the nation aright. Until that changes we will continue to suffer the indignities of the ruled.
Jan 4, 2010, 4:40:06 PM
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