Dave wrote:
Not obfuscating at all.

Yeah, but I thought that was more polite than saying "you're full of ****."

... What Hamilton said is that the doctrine of
enumerated powers on which you're relying doesn't apply in the area of
foreign relations. In that field he believed the President's authority was
to be plenary

Plenary powers damn sure don't include threatening war with another
country. And you wouldn't argue that they did, if we were talking about
a different President... say, Truman, for example.

DSK