More Obamessiah Hypocrisy

I guess we can be glad that he's acknowledging it himself this time - saves us the trouble of pointing it out first. Take a look:

Monday Obama continued his string of undignified attacks on the previous administration, when he announced his views on the much maligned (by Democrats anyway) practice of presidential signing statements and his intention to use less of them.

Guess what the Dear Leader did today when he signed the omnibus spending bill.

[Obama] also issued a "signing statement" in which he objected to provisions of the bill that he said the Justice Department had advised "raise constitutional concerns." Among them are provisions that Obama said would "unduly interfere" with his authority in the foreign affairs arena by directing him how to proceed, or not to, in negotiations and discussions with international organizations and foreign governments.

Another provision, Obama said, would limit his discretion to choose who performs specific functions in military missions.

Now in fairness, during the campaign Obama, unlike John McCain, never promised to do away with them, just to use them in a smarter way or something.

"The problem with this [the Bush] administration is that it has attached signing statements to legislation in an effort to change the meaning of the legislation, to avoid enforcing certain provisions of the legislation that the President does not like, and to raise implausible or dubious constitutional objections to the legislation," Obama answered. But, he added: "No one doubts that it is appropriate to use signing statements to protect a president's constitutional prerogatives."

"Avoid enforcing certain provisions of the legislation that the President does not like"...is that anything like ignoring certain parts of the spending bill to get an extra vote or two?

I'm guessing that after a year, maybe two, the number of signing statements this administration issues will about the same as or greater than the Bush did during the same period.

Two things jump out at me here. First, he's doing exactly the same thing that Bush did, and yet that's somehow okay now. Second, did you get what he's actually doing? He's signing a law while simultaneously suggesting that no one follow the law, not even the Justice Department!

Unreal.

And yet...completely typical. Like I said, the only real surprise here is the fact that he told us himself.

While it stretches logic to understand how he can justify these diametrically opposed actions, it also illustrates just about every policy stance Obama has.

There's my two cents.