As he should. But what’s more interesting here — to me, at least — is that both Perry’s campaign strategy, and that of the Obama Administration, are both coming in to sharp relief: for Perry’s part, the idea is to seize on what the Obama Administration is doing, and propose the exact opposite (which is hardly a bad plan, all things considered); while for their part, the Administration is leaving its dirty work to the Justice Department and all the various bureaucratic agencies it has larded with far left ideologues and activists, then sitting back and pretending to be above the partisan fray, “frustrated” by the politics of a divided Congress.

Obama, you see, is post-partisan. A man of the people. Beyond the dirty business of politics. A visionary, if you will, forced to try to Get Things Done is a political landscape dominated by squabbling children who simply refuse to give him everything he wants.

And in the reality he hopes to create (to be accomplished by way of a media and popular culture manipulation of perceptions), we’re to embrace this manufactured spectacle — meaning, we’re to forget that he is the leader of the Democrat party, and that his party had a supermajority in Congress for several years, during which time the GOP could not, for all intents and purposes, stop a single one of the Democrats’ policies from being enacted — and as a nation sign on to what he’s really selling here, namely, the notion that government can best help “the people” once it is left to a wise, benevolent dictator who is unburdened by the impediments our constitutional form of government has set in his way.

The Constitution is, after all, a flawed document. And the ChiComs, why, those bastards can simply bypass any will of the people and get shit done!

Obama, though he’ll try to tap into a disdain for politics, pretending himself to ride that wave as its Messianic champion, is really running not as an anti-government populist — ironically, he wants you to think of him as a kind of non-racist, non-hickish version of a TEA Party candidate — but rather as a would-be King.

And honestly, wouldn’t taking the US back to its colonial days of centralized rule by a wise and distant authority be a kind of “fundamental transformation”?

Surely Tom Friedman can get behind such a thing. Representative democracy is messy. Authoritarianism? Well, it sounds bad, sure. But come on: look at its upside! Obama, unchained!

YES HE CAN!

(thanks to JHo)