The latest Hugo Chavez moment for Barack Obama was the silliness of challenging the right of the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional that he approved. As a "constitutional professor," the President knows that the issue of the Supreme Court's authority to review and judge [isn't that what judges are supposed to do?] laws regarding their constitutionality has long been settled. He just doesn't find it convenient. It gets in his way of re-forming the government and the United States He is a re-former, after all.
It's like those immigration laws that are constitutional... very inconvenient so he ordered the federal law enforcement agencies to, how should we put it, IGNORE THE LAW.
And all of that nonsense about vowing to defend the Constitution. He is here to show how the Constitution is just not up to defining the basis for our government and our country. It's all about "negative rights"... you know, what the government can't do to you... can't take away your freedom of speech... can't take away your right to bear arms... and so on. There's nothing in there about redistribution of wealth... that's a fatal flaw... right? Right.
But we shouldn't focus on the Constitution. Not when the President wants to give away top secret missile information to another country. It's not top secret if he says it isn't top secret. The President is in charge so the President can do whatever he damn well pleases. Right? Right.
The President has to preserve, protect, and defend... his presidential prerogatives. That's while he is trying to figure out how he can copy what his best buddy Hugo did in Venezuela.
Term limits are such an inhibitor.