@Old Trooper:

Obama KNOWS The Constitution very well. He just doesn’t like it because it doesn’t conform to his twisted views for advancing “social justice”.

Using Obama’s own rhetoric on “political and economic justice”, Roger Kimball of Pajamas Media put it well when he said:

“Political justice we know: it means equality before the law. The figure of justice on court houses used to be blindfolded (is she still?) because justice, if it is just, is impartial . But what is economic justice? That would require Justice to pull aside the blindfold and top-up your bank account if had less than others.”

Kimball continues:

“Bottom line for Obama? While the civil rights movement made some ‘formal’ strides, it was too focused on the courts”:

“The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth.”

The Supreme Court is not radical enough for Barack Obama.

“it didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers and the Constitution.”

Kimball drives it home here:

“While you think about what it might mean if the President of the United States wanted to “break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers and the Constitution,” note that Obama goes on to disparage the Constitution as merely “a charter of negative liberties”: that is, it only tells you what the state and federal government “can’t do to you.” http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/10/27/the-real-obama-forget-the-constitution-economic-justice-demands-redistribution-of-wealth/

A “charter of negative liberties”?! WTF?!

Listen to Obama spew this garbage for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck
(***key board cover warning*** – the opening statement is sickening and the Q&A is even worse”

Didn’t Obama swear to protect and defend The Constitution of the United States of America?
http://www.presidentsusa.net/oathofoffice.html

It really has become a challenge to determine which words coming from Obama have “meaning” or “meaning meaning”, like Whoopi Goldberg’s defense of Polanski’s crime of rape as a question of “rape” as compared to “rape, rape”.

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Adrian, you have done some outstanding work in this thread, well done! Note, Richard Cohen has another interesting OpEd in this morning’s WaPo, this makes two in a row from him that I’m aware of, not too bad for a lefty. Thought you might want to peruse, here’s a taste:

Does Obama Have the Backbone?

By Richard Cohen
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Barack Obama’s trip to Copenhagen to pitch Chicago for the Olympics would have been a dumb move whatever the outcome. But as it turned out (an airy dismissal would not be an unfair description), it poses some questions about his presidency that are way more important than the proper venue for synchronized swimming. The first, and to my mind most important, is whether Obama knows who he is.

This business of self-knowledge is no minor issue. It bears greatly on the single most crucial issue facing this young and untested president: Afghanistan. Already, we have his choice for Afghanistan commander, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, taking the measure of his commander in chief and publicly telling him what to do. This MacArthuresque star turn called for a Trumanesque response, but Obama offered nothing of the kind. Instead, he used McChrystal as a prop, adding a bit of four-star gravitas to that silly trip to Copenhagen by having the general meet with him there.

This is the president we now have: He inspires lots of affection but not a lot of awe…..”

IMHO this war should be fought to win, the president needs to hear Gen. McCrystal out and act on his request for more troops instead of using him for photo ops to distract from a domestic fiasco. Start paying attention to the generals, Biden doesn’t know st from shinola, knock off the battlefield Miranda rights, and the ROE’s should be relaxed so our troops can better protect themselves and when they say they need a gunship, send it.

Read it all, he’s makes crucial points.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/05/AR2009100502783.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

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@po:

You have a very myopic and short-ranged view of world affairs. No matter what government is in power in Afghanistan our effort has been directed towards the elimination of the enemies of America hiding their bases in the emptiness of both Afghanistan and Pakistan.

It shouldn’t surprise you that even for the Obama gang, leaders and governments that are radical and extreme (or even contrary to American culture) are tolerated for one misbegotten reason or another. Take Saudi Arabia, for example. A monarchy with stringent dictatorship and Muslim governance. And, yet in stead of defeating them, U.S. administrations have appeased them for their oil. There are many governments with which the U.S. must deal with cautiously.

Fortunately for conservatives, it seems American voters and the public in general have come around after Obama’s election — to oppose him. Obama’s dire poll ratings and his lackluster performances have proven that Americans are really against the policies he espouses. The magic for Obama is lost.

You would have us believe that Obama’s flip-flop on Afghanistan has a reason. But I soundly reject that argument. Were it not for his many changes in policies (so many) and his undelivered pledges that were nothing more to him than campaign “promises” — something he apparently considers different from an honorable man’s pledge — it would perhaps be believable. But it’s not. Coward comes to mind, though.

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McChrystal holds a bachelor in science degree from the United States Military Academy (West Point), a master of arts degree in national security and strategic studies from the United States Naval War College, and a master of science degree in international relations from Salve Regina University.

Defense Distinguished Service Medal
Defense Superior Service Medal (with one Oak Leaf Clusters)
Legion of Merit (with two Oak Leaf Clusters)
Bronze Star
Defense Meritorious Service Medal
Meritorious Service Medal (with three Oak Leaf Clusters)
Army Commendation Medal
Army Achievement Medal
Expert Infantryman Badge
Parachutist Badge (United States)
Special Forces Tab
Ranger Tab
Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge
*
2LT – June 2, 1976
1LT – June 2, 1978
CPT – August 1, 1980
MAJ – July 1, 1987
LTC – September 1, 1992
COL – September 1, 1996
BG – January 1, 2001
MG – May 1, 2004
LTG – February 16, 2006
GEN – June 15, 2009
*
Obama ? B. HUSSEIN Soetero:
Columbia University…B.A., No Transcripts available
Harvard Law Degree, No transcripts available
Community Organizer, Represented and Trained ACORN in RICO Violations and Voter Fraud techniques
Lecturer of Law, but barely knows the US Constitution
Illinois State Senator, Voted PRESENT!
U.S. Senator, Ran for President for the Majority of his ONE TERM
Pretender in Chief and a One Term Resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
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Who do You trust?
I rest my case.

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[...] “ignored” his generals. And now that it’s Obama in office, it’s now okay to criticize the generals he may disagree with? To the point of arguing what uniform dress McChrystal should [...]

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“However, to think that the government is not already printing up $$$ that your great-grandchildren may have to pay back is naive”

and putting words that someone didn’t say into their mouth is an easy way to strike down a strawman argument. Way to go for the non-argument, there.

Skookum and Adrian apparently would have preferred McCain / Palin. Rock on, but that really says a lot.

Between the time Obama said Afghanistan was the war that needed to be fought and now something very important happened . . . an election took place mired in fraud. That government is what Americans are now being asked to support – a corrupt government that cannot garner popular support without stuffing ballot boxes. No amount of NATO military engagement can change that fact. But, for this crowd, might always makes right (or at least makes that mess in your lap look worthwhile).

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Adrian S, well said my Patriot Friend. I need to do some farmer work. Please watch the perimeter.

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“Empty slogans, faux outrage and misperceived persecution complexes make for great headlines, but don’t equal policy.”

po I think you have stumbled on to something. Obama won an election on empty slogans, faux outrage and misperceived (misdirected) persecution complexes; they did make great headlines and you are absolutely right, they don’t equal (work) as policy. Just like perpetual campaigning doesn’t substitute for running a country. Too funny!

You should join a Conservative Think Tank you can provide with great ammunition in our fight against Obama.

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@po:

I’m not as good an apologist as you are for not doing what should be done or, better yet, what needs to be done.

However, to think that the government is not already printing up $$$ that your great-grandchildren may have to pay back is naive. I read this morning about some $7.7 Billion dollars the U.S. is providing to Pakistan to fight terrorism; yet very, very little of it finding its way to do actual training and supplying and fighting.

Obama criticized Bush on the surge in Iraq, even voted against it, saying that the surge should be in Afghanistan. Obama said that that is where the war is. A few months later, and “commander-in-chief”, Obama doesn’t know his arse from a whole in the ground. His military advisers are saying that in order to win the war in Afghanistan we need more troops; yet Obama is not only taking and wasting his time, but Obama is making politics out of perhaps the major reason we have a federal government — and that is to protect the citizens of the U.S.

When provided with what all that our military needs, don’t underestimate the determination and dedication of our generals and soldiers to find and kill the terrorists who threaten the world.

I do however underestimate Barack Insane Obama in a serious resolve to do what needs to be done; he is a large child with naivete, ignorance, foolishness, hubris and idiocy unmatched by any of the true leaders of the free world.

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Re: “America can and will withstand this assault on our Constitution, culture, and freedoms.”

Yup, we lived through W, we can live through just about anything.

What assault has been made on the Constitution under Obama? waiting . . .

What assault has been made on our “culture” (love that choice of words here) under Obama? waiting . . .

What assault on any one of your freedoms has been made under Obama? waiting . . .

NOT A ONE. And you know it. You just think you’re being trampled because your team doesn’t get to say jump and the rest of us ask how high. It’s called losing the election. Get use to it.

And don’t count your chickens re: only 3 more years. Sarah Palin ain’t gonna stay fresh that long and “Just Say No” didn’t work for Reagan’s war on drugs and won’t work for y’all now.

Empty slogans, faux outrage and misperceived persecution complexes make for great headlines, but don’t equal policy.

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