Obama

What I like about Obama is he's certainly no dictator. He's not going to use obscure provision in some laws to overturn Don't Ask Don't Tell or use the Justice Department to refuse to recognize Defense of Marriage Act. Doing those things would have been a dictatorial act, even if the laws permitted it, because they would have been done without the consent of Congress and against the will of the military.

Some people might consider Obama's backtracking on indefinite detention to be an example of a dictatorial power, but we must remember that this was a precedent set not by him, but by George W. Bush. Bush has set up a legal limbo that Obama is struggling to disentangle, and for now, he has not figured out how to disentangle himself from this mess without political risks.