President Obama knows the power of the faux. The President has trouble with the U.S.Constitution most days of the week and today was one of those days.  A reasonable facsimile will do as  White House correspondent Jake Tappe found out.  “No, that was not an actual copy of the Constitution behind President Obama as he spoke today.”

So the facsimiles were brought out for this event.. The impact of President Obama speaking in the echo-filled chamber with the words “THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERCA” etched in marble behind him were not accidental.

AllahPundit was right:

Update: And I was right. Says Brett Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights, “He wraps himself in the Constitution, talks about American values and then proceeds to violate them.” Preventive detention seems to be a sticking point, don’tcha know.