Each president recites the following oath, in accordance with Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

and th-th-th-that’s all folks! So be sure to take note of the fact that the Oath does NOT say anything about defending the “American people” as W is fond of telling everyone. He swore, explicitly and exclusively, to uphold the Constitution. Period.

These days, of course, the idea of the Father President caring for his People is a heartwarming Facist-type image, which the regime has worked tirelessly to create and perpetuate. At the time it probably struck the Founding Fathers as precisely the way kings treated their subjects. But the Founders knew that the Constitution is the contract between the government and the governed, a crystalized set of ideas and ideals that would be the foundation of the country, and that the highest charge of the government, and the President therefore, as the executive of the government, was the protection of this document. The “American people” live and die, come and go, but the Constitution is always there.