There Is a Term for This.
January 19, 2009
This Obama-Youth organization, or whatever he’s going to call it: overreaching. That is the kind term. (The unkind one? Fascism lite.)
Ace, hearing that the Obama-cultists will be given some sort of special powers to act as a Quasi-FEMA agency and help out with natural disasters—and yet do so, somehow, without answering to the Feds—only the country’s Chief Executive—calls the proposal “unacceptable.”
I’m with Geraghty’s correspondant, who finds the whole notion “creepy.” I doubt that I’m the only one, either: Americans don’t have strong stomachs for this sort of thing.
Even if the Obama Youth are just there to pressure lawmakers, and won’t be given special status as emergency responders or law enforcers, there is something a bit unseemly about a President organizing youth groups, and threatening recalcitrant Democratic lawmakers with phone calls from young people if they don’t toe the line. Should the President of the United State need to hide behind the skirts of some college kids in order to get his job done?
And if the group is given inappropriate power, is this simply a way to get around posse comitatus? That will not go over well in this country—not among the gun-clingers.
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January 19th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
I deem this to be the imaginary Presidency.
January 19th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
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