By Prof. Paul Eidelberg

Wise Americans have called Barack Obama not only a “Post-American” President, but also a “Third World” President. This disparagement should be taken seriously, and that’s the basic intention of the present article, which transcends politics even though it focuses on the pathetic but strutting character of Barack Obama.

If you have a President as ignorant and as arrogant as Mr. Obama, and if he enjoys some support among Democrats in Congress, he is bound to say anddo things that contradict Americas two foundational documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Federal Constitution.

Since these documents embody the Principle of Limited Government and the related System of Institutional Checks and Balances, it’s time for some Senator, or some member of the House of Representatives, to address the public and enumerate the many times President Barack Obama has displayed ignorance as well as arrogance regarding these sacred documents. And it would be wise and most timely if this Senator or Representative is serving, respectively, in the Senate or in the House Judiciary Committee.

Of course, by exposing statements and/or acts of Mr. Obama that disparage him politically, and that may possibly incriminate him legally, the public may call for his impeachment, and this may result in violent urban repercussions that would make the recent riots in Ferguson appear mild by comparison.  Hence, some other lawful way should be formulated to render Mr. Obama innocuous.

Whatever method is chosen, it should serve to educate the American people about the principle of Limited Government and how this principle is fleshed out by our system of institutional checks and balances.  The public will then learn how this system was designed to minimize the danger that an ignorant or an arrogant President might abuse the powers of the Executive Branch, and thus violate the Rule of Law, a foundation stone of civilized society. The Obama Administration has been lax on this law by its turning a blind eye toward Muslim organizations whose creed is not very civilized.

It should also be emphasized, however, that the ignorance and arrogance manifested by the Obama Administration is not only a consequence of Mr. Obama’s post-American, Third World leanings. His leanings reflect a century-long evolution of nihilism in American higher education. This nihilism,  better known as moral relativism, has filtered down and stultified countless citizens of this now sexually indiscriminate country to the extent of transforming high tech America into a morally lax or semi-third world nation!