“There is only one president at a time”

Truer words have never been spoken, and it’s even stranger that the words came from Barack Obama, after his meeting this past week with President George Bush. The question is…..does he really believe that or was that just for the medias consumption?

Flash back to Barack Obama’s first ever trip to Iraq in July, it seems that the Democratic nominee chose to demand that Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and several other key advisors postpone an immenant agreement for a troop withdraw until Obama’s election to avoid negotiations with the Bush Administration in it’s “state of weakness and political confusion.”

This demand by then Senator Obama was done purely to circumvent and usurp the power of the sitting President of the United States. Obviously Obama at that time had no such authorization to make such a demand, and in fact violated a law that was made to avoid such problems, but then Obama IS a lawyer correct?

If ignorance is no excuse to violate the law, then why wasn’t Obama charged with this violation? The law is called the Logan Act, which strictly forbids any unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments. This is considered a felony, and carries a maximum penalty of three years in jail. Nobody has ever been tried under this act but it has been in our laws since 1799.

Obama violated the following section of this law:

§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments.
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply himself, or his agent, to any foreign government, or the agents thereof, for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.
1 Stat. 613, January 30, 1799, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 953 (2004).

Yet we will never see the day he answers these charges, much in the same way he has refused to show his birth certificate to forensic investigators, claiming privacy, even though he has to be a natural citizen of America to become President of our country. The requirements to be President should over ride his privacy…..but then he is a lawyer correct?