Spin of the Week is awarded to the week’s most outstanding spin/angle/argument, whether creative, humorous, ridiculous, egregious, offensive, dead on, or whathaveyou.

This week's winner: “I’m bound by the Constitution,” stated by our very own President of the United States earlier this week after a devastating question from an ABC News reporter (shocker) about his former hardline stance against a president abusing executive authority.

ABC News’ Jonathan Karl: When you were running for president you said that, quote, “The biggest problems we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all, and that’s what I intend to reverse.” So my question to you, has Congress’s inability to anything significant given you the greenlight to push the limits of executive power—even a duty to do so. Or, to put another way, does it bother you more to be accused of being an imperial president, pushing those limits, or to be accused of being a do-nothing president who couldn’t get anything done because you faced a dysfunctional Congress?

Obama: Well, you know, I think that... I never have a greenlight. I’m bound by the Constitution. I’m bound by separation of powers. There’s some things we can’t do.

After fumbling around for a while, citing infrastructure projects, Obama returns to the question, attempting to paint his actions as “consistent,” pro-middle class, and something the American people are begging him to do:

Obama: What I am consistently going to do, wherever I have legal authorities, to make progress on behalf of middle class Americans and folks working to get into the middle class [...] I’m going to seize those opportunities. And that’s what I think the American people expect me to do. My preference in all these instances is to work with Congress...

Video via Allahpundit.