Rand Paul: Obama Presidency 'Makes Me Think of a Third World Dictatorship'

Potential 2016 presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY, was in New Hampshire on Thursday, campaigning to get-out-the-vote for former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown.

Paul, an ophthalmologist and the son of former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, the second place finisher of the First-in-the-Nation New Hampshire primary in 2012, made stops at Republican field offices in Manchester and Salem, dropped by the Concord headquarters to make phone calls, and had pizza with the Plymouth State University College Republicans.

In Concord, Jennifer Horn, the chairwoman of the committee, said polls were tightening but if everyone involved in the effort so far to elect Republicans could give a bit more effort to the cause, they would be successful in November.

Gail Huff, the former broadcaster and wife of Brown, introduced Paul to about 100 volunteers and members of the media, and later, the two made calls together.

Paul spoke highly of Brown and their time working on issues in the Senate but added that Republicans only having 49 seats meant their controlled none of the agenda when it came to legislation or public policy.

But, he stated, during the mid-term elections, the president was “the best recruiter” Republicans could have for gaining the support of voters in November. Obama had a long list of “worst things he has done,” Paul said, but added that the “usurpation of power” was something the public should reject.

“He made a statement about a month ago and he said, ‘If Congress won’t act, I will’ … that should alarm us,” Paul said. “That goes against ever tradition of our country.”

Paul said the separation of powers in the United States – two houses in Congress working on and approving legislation, the president signing or rejecting legislation, and the Supreme Court ruling on Constitutionality, “really got it right … it’s what makes us a great country because it kept us from lurching from one direction to lurching to another direction.”

Comments by the president though that he can unilaterally supersede Congress, Paul said, “makes me think of sort of a third world dictatorship … I’m not saying he’s a dictator; it just makes me think of one,” to chuckles in the room.

Paul said he had been to more than 30 states campaigning for Republicans and thought the effort to take back the Senate looked good, especially if Brown could win New Hampshire.

After shaking hands and posing for pictures, Paul hit the phones, calling voters that New Hampshire Republicans had ID’d as undecided.