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Letter: President confused about his ‘primary job’

Monday, Sept. 4, 2006 | 7:44 a.m.

George W. Bush never tires of asserting that his primary job is "to protect the American people" (implicitly by whatever means he deems necessary).

I must have missed something in Article II, Section I of the Constitution:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

We hire many hundreds of thousands of capable people and train them to defend and protect us with respect to circumstances where we cannot personally fend for ourselves. The president's job is to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," not to trample on it at every turn when he is not actively ignoring its inconvenient provisions.

The extent to which President Bush has violated his oath of office is unprecedented in the history of this nation and constitutes a supreme insult to those who have died and been maimed in defense of our Constitution and our nation during his pathetic tenure. We can get on perfectly well without his disingenuous and bumbling, dangerously messianic, "leadership."

Robert Gladd, Las Vegas

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