Can Obama declare an Executive Order and become a Dictator of the USA?

Martial Law. Any president can in a worst-case scenario. Bush was the dictator of New Orleans for a while after Katrina.

ok, im sick and tired of you right wing assholes shooting your mouths off about how bad Obama and Heath Care are when really you don't know what your talking about. And what the hell is all this crap about "baby killing" you people are so conserned about and embreo but after its born you give it the big middle finger and brick through their window. Boy it would be nice to see texas secede along with every one of you fucking dipshits. I even have an idea for your flag: three big, fat, red K's.

That made me smile, thank you andyman27 for lightening my day :)

well the way I see it , Obama could declare himself a dictator. Due to a clause in the Patriot Act that the Bush adminstration adopted. This clause is the Continuity of Governance . if there is a nation emergency like a terrorist attack , or something that effects the the whole or most of the country . He can declare a nation wide martial law, and appoint himself a dictator . the health care bill is just a tool to ration care. remember nancy pelosi " we have to pass the bill to se whats in it " that is the first clue that they were hiding something . now that its been out for a few months now . we find that they have a public option embedded in the law . for the Left and democrats and progressives . If you can't see what is happening to your way of life , I feel so sorry for your children . I am really in lock step with obama suspending the elections in Nov. say goodbye to your freedoms

It's spelled Constitution.

Yeah and his approach is self serving and destructive. The last president made some dumb decisions but the one we have now is the icing on the cake. What an absloute moron.

Yes he could. Read Presidential Directive 51........initiated by George W. Bush.

That's different. That was in an emergency, "Such an emergency is construed as 'any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions.'" If the president were to try to do a Presidential Directive to become some dictator, the other two branches of government could still step in and put a stop to it. A presidential directive isn't like some magical be-all-end-all, it's simply one of the powers of the executive branch of government which is in check like everything else. Furthermore...
"Presidential Directives, better known as Presidential Decision Directives or PDD are a form of an executive order issued by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of the National Security Council." The NSC consists of

roughly 17 people, and a Presidential Directive cannot be executed without their consent. So like I've been saying, no, he could not do such a thing. I think you people have been watching too many movies.

Sources of information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_and_Homeland_Security_Presidential_Directive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Directive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Council

well now he is a de-facto dictator through the council of 13, he and his 12 ¨apostles¨ , sorry, apostates of the constitution of the usa, and the mayority of us congress allowed gave up them their powers happily in a blink of an eye. and people in usa are not interested in remove him from office, and by the news apparently dont care anymore. So sorry, but now USA is not a republic any more, till august 2nd of 2011 is a dictatorial state (A REAL ONE, NOT A FIGURE OF SPEECH). Aparently officially in august we are entering the twilight zone.

You do realize Chuck Norris wasn't even born in Texas, right?

Who cares where Chuck Norris was born.

One of the requirements of being president of the United States is to be born in the United States. Well if Texas were to secede and have its own president, logic states that the president of Texas would have to have been born in Texas.

Besides, Chuck Norris isn't all that great, he never even kills people, just knocks them unconscious. Wesley Snipes, now that's where it's at. You know where all those Chuck Norris jokes came from? It was people too afraid to talk about Wesley Snipes.

Come on, really? If we seceeded Stone Cold Steve Austin would be president... yeah...

Well, I'm not a wrestling fan, but at least he's born in Texas, and he's not Chuck Norris, so yeah, that works for me.