Hail to the King

The press has not yet realized President Obama is skipping the press and going directly to the people through mass media and free no question ask appearances on the 3 minor networks.
When Louis the 14th set up his monarchy he went directly to the people, the revolution in France - Bonaparte went straight to the people, the same in the former USSR. Louis also had a Rahm, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu. He sought to consolidate royal power and crush domestic factions. By restraining the power of the nobility, he transformed France into a strong, centralized state, he made the gathering of taxes more efficient; but he needed more money to fund his programs; so he raised taxes and set up leaders to represent him in different areas, sort of like czars. Now the people did not need local leader, government was centralized. He had the money to fund his programs, the right of coinage, control of the dispensing of justice, and an army to enforce the laws. Kind of like a new national police force, the fed printing money wildly, stacking the court, making nuclear decisions without consulting congress, setting up over 30 czars covered by executive privilege. It all rings of a monarchy to me. President Obama believes he is amoung equals when with heads of state, any head of state; as the old saying goes a king among kings, we are all equal.
Shakespeare wrote 23 plays 10 had to do with the problems of kingship, one of Shakespeare great worries; his other worry was his adorers. Might President Obama’s worries be the same?

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