Monday, November 03, 2008

Obama...man...?

If there is one article I could get every thinking person (Democrat, Republican or Independent) out there to read...it would be this one: The Cult of the Presidency

Please for the sake of a generation that desperatly needs some schooling in poltical science and history...read the whole article. It will take you less time than watching Heroes...and it will hopefully help derail the madness that is turing the masses into sheep.

Here is one of main amazing thoughts from the article:

"The constitutional office they designed gave the president an important role, but he’d have “no particle of spiritual jurisdiction,” the 69th essay of The Federalist Papers tells us. In Federalist No. 48, James Madison assured Americans that under the proposed Constitution the “executive magistracy is carefully limited, both in the extent and the duration of its powers.” Indeed, the very pseudonym the Federalist’s authors chose, “Publius,” says something about how hostile Founding-generation Americans were to the idea of one-man rule. Publius Valerius Poplicola, a hero of the Roman revolution in the 5th century B.C., was famous in part for passing a law providing that anyone suspected of seeking kingship could be summarily executed."

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