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All presidents have campaigned for office based on personality and judgement. The difference now is that we have a entire branch of government that has abdicated is responsibility under the Constitution. Time will tell what sort of effect power has on the soul of Barack Obama, but the failure in government rests squarely on the shoulders of those legislators who falsely perceive that it is their role in government to support the agenda of the monarch, and not be a check on the power of the executive.
