St. John's University economist Northrup Buechner writes in Forbes: "Obama's disdain for the Constitution means we are at risk of losing our Republic. ... The shocking fact is that our whole system of representative government depends on it being led by an individual who believes in it; who thinks it is valuable; who believes that a government dedicated to the protection of individual rights is a noble ideal. What if he does not? Mr. Obama is moving our government away from its traditional system of checks and balances and toward the one-man-rule that dominates third world countries. He has said that he wants a fair country -- implying that, as it stands, the United States is not a fair country -- an unprecedented calumny committed against a country by its own leader."