It’s impressive to compare this with this. It’s not as though this has taken place over a lengthy tenure; however long it seems like Obama has been president, it’s only been about five months. And already this is a complete turnaround on an issue that Obama campaigned on and something that was always near the very top of every Democrat’s list of complaints about George Bush.
Those of us who think signing statements are alright can look at this as Obama growing in office, in much the same way a living Constitution types have watched formerly conservative Supreme Court justices move to the left. Of course, with Supreme Court justices, that’s a process that happens over decades, because of the gradual effects of the persuasive force of colleagues and the media. With Obama, it took less than five months. It’s hard to see that as changing his mind, so much as simply giving in to expediency.
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