Obama's Inauguration Told Us Everything

President Obama misspoke the oath of Office January 20, 2009.

Most of us thought it was funny, yet his slip of the tongue exposed two very troubling realities about our current chief executive:

1) He does not know by heart the Constitution ( a scandal for a constitutional law professor)

2) He does not respect the Constitution ( a scandal for anyone seeking national office in the United States

Because he does not know the Supreme Charter of our nation inherently, intimately, by heart and not just by rote, there is little surprise that he has frequently misconstrued enumerated powers and aggregated to himself authority never intended by the Framers for any one man.

Yet this ignorance is fueled in greater part by his disdain for our national charter, one which limits the power of man and his minions, which frustrates the will of the one and the many in the best interests of all.

As a progressive in the mold of Woodrow Wilson (and even Teddy Roosevelt), Obama feels not reservation or compunction in flouting the Constitution, its restraint on federal power, and flaunting newly-found authority with unaccountable czars and the unseen fourth branch of government, regulatory and administrative agencies so slow, so unresponsive, so wasteful, that removing them requires enacting more legislation, more government, and enhances the core values of liberal progressivism.

All of this the Constitution was designed to cut through, right down to the Tenth Amendment, which explicitly reserves the states and the people all powers not delegated to the federal government.

Of course, the President, in his academic elitism, most likely disdained to read the Founding Instrument codifying our liberty, for he is more at home in the mind-enhancing (and min-numbing) self-promotion of conceited academics who still yearn for and demand how the world "should be".

The Constitution, in all of its "shalls", is a great inconvenience to our president, who misread the oath of office out of ignorance and insolence for the very document which accorded him the power he was sworn in to receive.