Obama says President Bush Should not be Impeached

This is not going to sit well with the left in this country. Today Obama said:

“I think you reserve impeachment for grave, grave breeches, and intentional breeches of the president’s authority,” he said.

All this time I thought the left was telling us that the president overstepped his authority. They have told us that he has trampled the constitution with the Patriot Act. That he is spying on innocent Americans. Now Barack says we shouldn’t impeach him because he should only be impeached for intentional breeches of presidential authority. That is exactly what the Democrats have been claiming all along.

So why would Obama say this? Did he just slip, not realizing what he said? Or does he believe the president hasn’t done anything that goes beyond his authority?

“There’s a way to bring an end to those practices, you know: vote the bums out,” the presidential candidate said, without naming Bush or Cheney. “That’s how our system is designed.”

This is the first thing I have heard Obama say that I agree with, although it is unbecoming of a presidential candidate to call the incumbent president a bum. The system was set up to vote out people you don’t agree with, not criminalize people who have differing opinions than you.