President Barack Obama’s delusions of grandeur, his Constitutional misconceptions and his petty racial politics mesh seamlessly in this recently uncovered letter, sent from the White House to an unknown number of recipients for rather dubious reasons.
In the letter, which bears the presidential seal and signature, Obama sings high-minded paeans to Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, but reserves his highest laudation for Cesar Estrada Chavez, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) and apotheosized of the American progressive movement.
To honor Chavez’s pursuit of social justice, our 44th President writes,
The foregoing proclamation, in addition to underscoring the President’s incredible hubris, reveals yet another perplexing deficiency in the former Harvard law professor’s Constitutional understanding. For nowhere in Article II of the U.S. Constitution (the part that defines and limits executive functions, professor…) is the President granted the power to declare holidays. Indeed, even our legal traditions seem to vest not the President but Congress with the authority to declare official holidays.
And if you, like me, are wondering why you did not receive this supra-constitutional proclamation from our Dear Leader, it may be because you don’t have the right skin color.
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