Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Obama on the Executive [John Derbyshire]
Some of Barack Obama's views on executive power are here, in a Boston Globe Q&A back in December. Sample:
Under what circumstances, if any, is the president, when operating overseas as commander-in-chief, free to disregard international human rights treaties that the US Senate has ratified?
It is illegal and unwise for the President to disregard international human rights treaties that have been ratified by the United States Senate, including and especially the Geneva Conventions. The Commander-in-Chief power does not allow the President to defy those treaties.
It's worth reading through the other (surviving) candidates' responses to these same questions. Here is Ron II.
I must say, I don't get the impression any of these candidates would have dropped the big one on Hiroshima.
02/12 12:13 PM
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