Jim DeMint: Obama is not ‘the leader of our country’ [View All]

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Jim DeMint: Obama is not ‘the leader of our country’

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/17/jim-demint-obama-is-not-the-leader-of-our-country/



WASHINGTON – Arch-conservative Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) said Thursday that President Barack Obama should not be considered the leader of the United States.

"This whole idea that the President is the leader of our country is a mistake," DeMint said during a speech to the Washington, DC chapter of the Federalist Society, according to Talking Points Memo.

Described by some as the most conservative member of the Senate, DeMint came to fame in 2009 when he said in a leaked private conversation that defeat on health care will be Obama's "Waterloo." He insisted Thursday that leadership should occur at the local level, not the national level.

"Leadership starts in the homes in the communities, in businesses, in churches," he said. "I've lived in a community and I know where the leaders are and it's not in Washington. And this pretense that he's our nation's leader... I'm not just talking about Obama, I'm talking about any President."