Creating Disunion

Just to retouch on one of the more astounding moments from last night's State of the Union address. President Obama, with the nine justices of the Supreme Court sitting front and center, as they traditionally do, challenged their recent ruling on campaign finance reform. Such a challenge is disrespectful and distasteful at best and shows the lack of deference that would have come from experience had President Obama spent any time governing rather than campaigning his whole life. It even appeared that Justice Samuel Allito said "that's just not true" in reacting to the President's characterization of the ruling. Specifically, the President (a rumored attorney and lecturer on constitutional law, though I've seen no indication he has much of a clue in the field) accused the Court of opening the floodgates of foreign contributions to campaigns, you know, like the illegal Chinese contributions to the Clinton campaigns (both Bill and Hillary (I'm sourcing Wikipedia here as they source a subscription Wall Street Journal article)). the John Kerry campaign donations, and Jihadist donations to the Obama campaign. Strange that it's more difficult to find an example of a Republican candidate taking foreign money (McCain may have had use of a dining hall in London). However, the Supreme Court specifically noted in its decision that it was not overturning laws prohibiting those exact kinds of contributions. I guess the Democrats were afraid they wouldn't be the only ones receiving the illegal donations. Luckily the Court preserved their ability to break the law and apologize when caught.

Even more incredible is that President Obama demanded Congress enact legislation to effectively overturn the Court's decision, which was based firmly on First Amendment grounds. Is this yet another sign of the President's opinion that the Constitution is something to be gotten around, a document that must be adjusted to accommodate the times rather than an instrument expressing the fundamental truths that are the basis for our nation and government? Or, perhaps, is it just another opportunity for the President to engage in class warfare, casting corporations as the antagonist of the American citizenry (damn you for employing us!!!)(P.S., I'm an LLC, so I'm only a little evil) just as he is doing with banks, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies...wait, aren't these the same people in bed with him?

In any case, by calling out the Supreme Court in the forum of the State of the Union address, our President once again showed his lack of experience and decorum that are appropriate for his position. I will breathe a sigh of relief when his stint in Office is over and I hope that his politics follow him out of office. Unfortunately, that's highly unlikely.