On Sunday, Mr. Obama was also endorsed by a lesser-known but more surprising figure — a constitutional law professor who headed the Office of Legal Counsel for both Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
Doug Kmiec is a respected professor at Pepperdine Law School, where Ken Starr serves as dean. He certainly hasn’t shown much previous inclination towards political apostasy — earlier this month he was still serving as co-chair of the Mitt Romney campaign’s Committee on the Courts and the Constitution.
Then he moves to the crux of his decision, which comes down to the Iraq War: “Our president has involved our nation in a military engagement without sufficient justification or clear objective. In so doing, he has incurred both tragic loss of life and extraordinary debt jeopardizing the economy and the well-being of the average American citizen.”
Mr. Kmiec then goes on to assert: “The office of the presidency, which it was once my privilege to defend… has been distorted beyond its constitutional assignment.”
