It really doesn't matter what you think of Obozo, either Bush, Clinton or any other administration. The simple reality is we have in the past, and continue today, to enter into and propagate unconstitutional military actions on foreign soil.

America has never lost a war. We've prevailed in every war that congress ever used its authority to declare. This truth is also tempered with the reality that no military action we've undertaken since WWII was ever declared by congress to BE a war.

Goins comments above encouraged a bit of reflection on the concept of isolationism.

Pulling out of the 700 or so locations across the globe where we have military installations and bringin all our military home is not an isolationist idea, it's a constitutional one. Thankfully it goes even further in the plus category as it also removes our military members from the positions they occupy in harms way abroad, saves our national budget huge sums of $$ that's being paid to other countries to have these installations on their soil, prevents our military salaries abroad from being also spent in those countries (which helps their economies, while depleting our own) and removes the argument from those who claim we can't defend our borders.

In a time where the US faces the most grave financial crisis in our history, defenders of our military actions claim the costs to our national budget are only "a drop in the bucket" in the overall picture, to which I raise the Bull Shit Flag waaaay high!

Try tellin such BS to the American families who've had to tighten their financial belts by such "drop in the bucket" actions to their own budgets in these times just so they can make it through the mess and see if you can find agreement that eliminating unnecessary expenses doesn't help.

Any politician who can straight faced stand and tell us these are only "drops in a bucket" and have no impact financially have no right to a single American vote as they not only are flat out lying, but obviously do not have a grip on the concept of Constitutional governance and principles thereof

And to fossil: If you can back up your assertions about RP above, please do so. If you can find a single congressional vote he's placed where it was shown to be in favor of an unconstitutional amendment, please provide it for our edification. Or if you can even find one issue where his stance has waffled one way or the other, please show evidence of that as well.

RP is the only politician I know of who unequivocally says and does the same consistently and never casts votes nor gives support to anything that is either unconstitutional or serves to take away rights of American citizens outlined by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.

Sure the prez powers are limited (less more so today then ever, but that's another huge topic altogether!), but if you truly believe that then you'd also have to ask how then did Obozo manage to enact so many changes the US electorate stood in opposition to if he does NOT have a significant amount of influence over what congress enacts?

In Obozos case that influence comes from political arm twisting, behind the scenes manipulation of support for his proposals, telling the dem congressional causcus they must support his agenda (which cost lots of them their seats in the last election) and through flat out lies to the American people,

Just my opinion, but I god damned well own it in saying that, NO I do not believe RP is just more of the same, but a breath of fresh air and political sanity that certainly knows what's needed to put our government back on track to live within its means and powers as enumerated by the Constitution