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Obama's ignorance of the law
American Thinker ^ | September 3, 1008 | Ed Lasky

Posted on 09/05/2008 10:47:17 AM PDT by syriacus

Barack Obama continues to embarrass himself with serious misreading of the law and the Constitution. But the media is not interested in pointing any of this out to voters, who are fed the line he is a brilliant legal thinker.

In my AT article "Barack Obama, Legal Scholar" I noted that Senator Obama, former President of the Harvard Law review who touts his years as a constitutional law lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, has repeatedly flubbed legal questions. He has misstated the law, has a serial habit of misjudging the constitutionality of various laws and has otherwise displayed somewhat surprising gaps in his knowledge of the law (that mirror the gaps in his resume and records). He has done it yet again, as noted in today's New York Sun.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; democrats; elections; equalpayforequalwork; nobama08; obama; obamabiden
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1 posted on 09/05/2008 10:47:18 AM PDT by syriacus
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Can we all say affirmative action!


2 posted on 09/05/2008 10:52:54 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (IF YOU ARE NOT CONSERVATIVE BY 35 YOU HAVE NO BRAIN. W CHURCHILL)
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...has a serial habit of misjudging the constitutionality of various laws and has otherwise displayed somewhat surprising gaps in his knowledge of the law.

He just believes in the 'living, breathing' type of law.

3 posted on 09/05/2008 10:53:19 AM PDT by realdifferent1 (Mrs. Palin: Let's not build our own 'Messiah'.)
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To liberals, the ONLY laws that are unconstitutional are ones that prevent the murder of the unborn. Obama, like all liberals, believes that the Constitution is an outdated and irrelevant document to be ignored “for the greater good”, which means they ignore it to advance socialism.


4 posted on 09/05/2008 10:55:27 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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Pish tosh! He’s well versed in the laws governing all 57 states.


5 posted on 09/05/2008 10:56:34 AM PDT by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
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6 posted on 09/05/2008 11:00:06 AM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: timsbella
That is 60 states. The 57 he visited, the one he has not visited, plus Alaska and Hawaii.

7 posted on 09/05/2008 11:02:43 AM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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...would spawn immense opportunities for trial lawyers, who have contributed millions to the Democratic 2008 campaigns, as well as past Democratic elections.

The spawning of immense opportunities for trial lawyers is the ultimate goal of most lawyers who put themselves forward for for the public trust of legislator. After over 200 years of government by the lawyers, of the lawyers and for the lawyers look at the mess of a legal system that we now must pay for.

8 posted on 09/05/2008 11:04:23 AM PDT by fella (.He that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough." Pv.28:19')
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The REAL story is the 90+ percent of blacks that follow Obama.. Hard to comprehend that many blacks following and swallowing Obama propaganda.. I prefer to believe that the number is much smaller than that.. Hope those numbers are in error..

True that most democrats are women.. but surely not all followers of Obama are blonds..

9 posted on 09/05/2008 11:05:25 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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Pish tosh! He’s well versed in the laws governing all 57 states.

LOL! He'd make a great governor for the State of Denial.

10 posted on 09/05/2008 11:07:29 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (John McCain is Lucy, McCainiacs are Charlie Brown, and the football is a secure border.)
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...Senator Obama, former President of the Harvard Law review who touts his years as a constitutional law lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School...

I would hope that some of his former students -- surely there must be some who are conservative, or at least able to discern bovine effluvia -- will step up and tell the world something about Professor Obama's legal mind. Or has the cone of silence descended upon this part of his past, just as with his own academic records, and with his relationships with Ayers, Rezco, ACORN, etc.?

11 posted on 09/05/2008 11:07:59 AM PDT by southernnorthcarolina (May contain traces of tree nuts.)
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To: Night Hides Not

Grand Pooh Bah of the State of Confusion.


12 posted on 09/05/2008 11:09:09 AM PDT by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
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To: hosepipe

Sadly Blacks vote 90% of the time for Dem’s (even if they have conservative values) in this election it will be 99% due to Barry’s skin color. It seems that they have a great capacity for denying facts (i.e. OJ was framed). With ballot box stuffing in the inner city the black turnout will be 105% so I guess they will vote 103.95% for the messiah.


13 posted on 09/05/2008 11:12:28 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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He has misstated the law, has a serial habit of misjudging the constitutionality of various laws

He said the DC pistol ban law was constitutional till the SC overturned it then he said he agreed with their ruling!

14 posted on 09/05/2008 11:15:11 AM PDT by ColdWater
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Is there anything that’s TRUE in Obama’s re`sume`?


15 posted on 09/05/2008 11:15:29 AM PDT by Palladin (Hello!! The Grand Old Party is BACK!!!)
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Ignorance of the law? Is that all?

‘Twould be a far smaller list to detail the things about which the Obamaloon is NOT ignorant.


16 posted on 09/05/2008 11:18:48 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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He said the DC pistol ban law was constitutional till the SC overturned it then he said he agreed with their ruling!

Yep! Obama's Switcheroo on the DC Gun Ban

17 posted on 09/05/2008 11:20:34 AM PDT by syriacus (FIRST check out the Alaska state webpages. THEN tell me that governing Alaska is easy.)
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To: Da Coyote

While I’m at it, can someone find the name of the poor schmuck who was aced out of a deserved leadership of the Harvard Law Review in order to affirmative action the Obamaloon? It would appear that just about all of his law class was probably more qualified.


18 posted on 09/05/2008 11:20:39 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Considering that Obama slips and states that the US has 57 States, when his Mulims upbringing taught him the 57 Muslim States, I’d say Obama has an issue with law.


19 posted on 09/05/2008 11:28:20 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: KSCITYBOY

Maybe routinely reading negative claims and generalizations like this is one reason for this 90-90%.


20 posted on 09/05/2008 11:31:26 AM PDT by Shade2
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