“I would really like to know where people like Soderberg get the idea that the U.S. President has the power to ‘order’ private citizens to do anything, let alone to break the law, as even she admits happened here. I’m asking this literally: how did this warped and distinctly un-American mentality get implanted into our public discourse — that the President can give ‘orders’ to private citizens that must be complied with? Soderberg views the President as a monarch — someone who can issue ‘orders’ that must be obeyed, even when, as she acknowledges, the ‘orders’ are illegal. That just isn’t how our country works and it never was.” (07/05/08)