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"Issues" or America? (Thomas Sowell on Obama)
Creators Syndicate ^ | August 21, 2012 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 08/20/2012 10:12:01 AM PDT by jazusamo

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To: jazusamo

Obama’s beliefs and attitudes towards our Constitution and its subsequent laws can be summed up quite succinctly as follows:

Laws are for controlling the people, not for the government or its employees in their official duties.


21 posted on 08/20/2012 12:30:11 PM PDT by Real Cynic No More
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To: jazusamo

I also apologize if my statement was taken wrong. It was not meant as some read.


22 posted on 08/20/2012 12:40:16 PM PDT by RC2 (Support the Wounded Warrior Project......please.)
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To: factoryrat
The other major problem is that the conservatives have to stop worrying about what the left thinks about them. I see it here all of the time, and I could care less what the left thinks about me. I’ve ripped devout democrats up one side and down the other, reducing them to babbling idiots. Their taunts and threats mean nothing to me, because I can throw it right back in their faces, and nothing will keep me from doing it. My advice to conservatives is to join forces, rip the leftists a new one, and take our country back. Anything less is mere posturing and surrender.

Yes! If I see your flag flying, factoryrat, I'm heading over to join your forces. Your post indicates you are a strong leader.

23 posted on 08/20/2012 12:51:54 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: jazusamo; stephenjohnbanker
The separation of powers into legislative, executive and judicial branches of government is at the heart of the Constitution of the United States — and the Constitution is at the heart of freedom for Americans.

If laws passed by the elected representatives of the people can be simply over-ruled unilaterally by whoever is in the White House, then we are no longer a free people, choosing what laws we want to live under.

Excellent, spot-on piece by Dr. Sowell. Thanks for recommending it, sjb.

24 posted on 08/20/2012 12:55:48 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: loveliberty2; jazusamo
Outstanding post!

"The Constitution of the United States cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution."

That was the money quote from Dr. Sowell's editorial. Too bad the nation and especially our so-called "leaders" failed so miserably in protecting our founding document from "Obama" when they allowed the coronation of this unvetted communist in 2008.

Thanks for the Ping, Jaz.

25 posted on 08/20/2012 1:15:33 PM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome (If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: jazusamo
No President of the United States is authorized to repeal parts of legislation passed by Congress. He may veto the whole legislation, but then Congress can override his veto if they have enough votes. Nevertheless, every President takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws that have been passed and sustained — not just the ones he happens to agree with.

If laws passed by the elected representatives of the people can be simply over-ruled unilaterally by whoever is in the White House, then we are no longer a free people, choosing what laws we want to live under.

Imagine the outrage by liberals if a conservative President opted to not enforce a variety of laws he didn't like - maybe not prosecuting thugs who beat up illegal immigrants "who don't belong here" , maybe other thugs stealing from welfare cheats, or someone who lost millions of dollars due to MF Global fraud deciding to get revenge by taking unlawful action against Jon Corzine.

Such actions might be justified as vigilante action to right wrongs ...but would create a lawless society.

But the ZERO has already created a lawless society, where Jon Corzine gets to keep money he stole, where New Black Panther party members can do voter intimidation at polls, and bankers can do illegal/unethical behaviour and not get prosecuted. We are doomed as a society if this isn't reversed! [Or we will need to revisit the Declaration Of Independence and take similar action against immoral "kings".)

26 posted on 08/20/2012 1:18:01 PM PDT by Vineyard
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To: jazusamo

Another good one from Dr. Sowell. Thanks for the ping jaz.


27 posted on 08/20/2012 1:50:13 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: jazusamo
>"every President takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws that have been passed and sustained "

MudSlimes are not bound to any oaths.

Taquiyaa, and Kahlua at the Bar.

Happy ramadumb infidels! What did you serve at your feast of ifatar dinner?

28 posted on 08/20/2012 2:03:38 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a Barack 0b0tt0my!)
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To: Flotsam_Jetsome; jazusamo
The so-called "progressive" indoctrination of the nation's citizens took decades of censorship, refuting, and downright ignoring the principles stated in our Declaration of Independence and carried out in our Constitution's provisions for a strictly-limited, separated, divided, checked and balanced "People's" government to allow them their Creator-endowed, therefore unalienable, rights to life, liberty, and the individual "pursuit" of their own happiness!

They and their spokespersons called that Constitution a "living constitution," meaning, in their minds, that it was "malleable" by mere politicans, legoslators, and judges. Once they believed they had sufficiently dumbed down the citizenry, they introduced a bold personality who, himself, expressed an opinion that the document Sir William Gladstone called "the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given moment by the brain and purpose of man," is, in fact, "flawed," and, "a document of negative liberties.".

Others, more qualified and certainly wiser scholars of the Constitution, said these things about that Constitution:

"The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its components are beautiful, as well as useful; its arrangements are full of wisdom and order...."
-Justice Joseph Story

In my previous post on this thread, are contained other statements of Justice Story about this priceless and historical American treasure--the Constitution.

Roger Sherman stated that as government is "instituted for those who live under it ... it ought, therefore, to be so constituted as not to be dangerous to liberty."

Justice Story's words pay tribute to the United States Constitution and its Framers. Shortly before the 100th year of the Constitution, in his "History of the United States of America," written in 1886, historian George Bancroft said:

"The Constitution is to the American people a possession for the ages."

He went on to say:

"In America, a new people had risen up without king, or princes, or nobles....By calm meditation and friendly councils they had prepared a constitution which, in the union of freedom with strength and order, excelled every one known before; and which secured itself against violence and revolution by providing a peaceful method for every needed reform. In the happy morning of their existence as one of the powers of the world, they had chosen Justice as their guide."

Roger Sherman stated that as government is "instituted for those who live under it ... it ought, therefore, to be so constituted as not to be dangerous to liberty."

As Jefferson wisely observed:

"History, by apprising the people of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views."(Underlining added for emphasis) Now, in our dumbed-down state of understanding our liberty, we buy into "another" less-informed and truly dangerous opinion about the document which was to secure our liberty--an opinion from a small mind which has been molded and shaped by the same old tyrannical idea about government-over-people that prevailed in the Old World, before the flame of liberty began to inspire the oppressed to come to America.

Justice Story's words quoted above represent the first half of his statement. The "rest of the" statement included this grave warning for Americans of all centuries. He concluded his statement with these words:

"...and its defenses are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are created by virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens."

Our constitution can be shared with the world and passed on to generations far distant if its formula is not altered in violation of principle through the neglect of its keepers - THE PEOPLE. Remember, the provisions of Article V still protect and require that right of "the People" to participate in any alterations or amendments to their document of liberty.

Some of the above is quoted, with permission, from "Our Ageless Constitution," W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part VII:  ISBN 0-937047-01-5


29 posted on 08/20/2012 2:47:29 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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30 posted on 08/20/2012 3:10:38 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

When a President can ignore the plain language of duly passed laws, and substitute his own executive orders, then we no longer have “a government of laws, and not of men”...>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

And we have a fascist president.

Read it here:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


31 posted on 08/20/2012 7:35:33 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: jazusamo

One of the best articles ever on FR. Dr. Sowell truly helps us to take a wider perspective about what it is that is so evil about the Obama administration.


32 posted on 08/21/2012 2:33:13 AM PDT by winner3000
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To: jazusamo

>> “you’re a complete idiot...”

I recognized the confusion upfront, but noticed you were still the gentleman despite the misunderstanding.


33 posted on 08/21/2012 2:48:37 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Gene Eric
I really blew it on that one but I'll be more observant from now on. :-)
34 posted on 08/21/2012 9:12:17 AM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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