Rand Paul: I Don’t Think Obama Will Kill Americans

TPM Livewire ^ | 03/06/2013 | Igor Bobic -

[Responsibility2nd]

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), filibustering John Brennan's nomination to lead the CIA on Wednesday in objection to the Obama administration's policy on targeted drone killing, ceded that President Obama personally was not the issue.

"I frankly don't think he'll be killing people in their homes tonight," Paul said.

At stake, Paul explained, was the prospect of unchecked power afforded to the executive branch if clear rules governing lethal force within the United States are not established.

[Responsibility2nd]

Comforting and reassuring, no?

[Steely Tom]

I think he will. I think he already has.

But I’m nobody.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

How could 0bama ever do such a thing if he’s not responsible for or accountable for ANYTHING? I bet he wouldn’t release illegal aliens from detention centers, either!

[Responsibility2nd]

No, no. The operative word is tonight.

As in, B. Hussein will prolly take tonight off.

[bigbob]

well, not unless they really deserve it, that is...

[DJ Frisat]

I don't see Obama with the joystick in his hand -- hell, he has enough trouble pointing a shotgun in the right direction -- but I can see him watching Glenn Beck Or Rush Limbaugh and saying 'We have to do something about this guy' in a leading way to one of his stooges...

Watch the skies!

[45semi]

"I frankly don't think he'll be killing people in their homes tonight," Paul said.

Check back around this summer Mr. Paul...
I'm betting the SHTF by August.

[riri]

Funny, I have been wondering all day just how many breaths of O2 Rand has left after this move.

[Sarajevo]

I frankly don't think he'll be killing people in their homes tonight

Yeah, we never thought that Daddy Bush would do it at Ruby Ridge, or that Clinton would do it at Waco either.

[showme_the_Glory]

Just need to kill one to start the snowball rolling. Law abiding citizens will protest and then they will also be targets. It’s the end of the world as we knew it. But I feel fine.

[rfreedom4u]

Anyone who starts a sentence with “I don’t think..” probably doesn’t.

[Jane Long]

Why can’t we get a straight answer from Holder on this?

[Conserev1]

But he will allow them to die !
Benghazi for the Daily Double Alex!

[Don Corleone]

That’s what the Jews thought about Hitler at first

[Puppage]

Unless you’re in Benghazi

[ConservaTexan]

Senator Paul’s name has shot towards the top of 0bama’s kill list after today.

[Gay State Conservative]

Won’t kill Americans? Not even if they’re “typical white people” or “people who bitterly cling to their guns and religion”? How about policemen who “behave stupidly” as did the Cambridge Police Dept a few years back? Or those who might wantonly,without just cause,kill his “son”,as George Zimmerman did?

[Doogle]

BENGHAZI.

[Red Steel]

It was like pulling Holder’s teeth to get an answer out of him.

In light of Holder’s testimony, it appears to me, Holder/Obama likes to have the option to even drone attack who they see as their political enemies.

[cripplecreek]

Its a diplomatic statement and doesn’t mean much.

Its up to us to make sure that people know Obama will happily kill Americans.

[faithhopecharity]

yes indeedie.

the fact the the American people are even worried that their government will soon attack them with military tanks and over billion combat-type bullets (not to mention drones in the skies)

just the fact that America has been made to worry about its “government gone wild”

is itself an extremely serious problem indicative of the type of failed leadership we have in most of our politicians today

[donhunt]

Obama won’t kill any Americans. He’ll make someone else do it so he doesn’t take any blame.

[drypowder]

I don't think Oboma will kill Americans

at the very heart of this issue is an implied question; do I trust this government to do what is right and good for me, my family and this country? Rand Paul is asking it and by any American having to ask that question, in and of itself provides the answer.

[riri]

Basically what I just said on another thread.

What they all must realize now is they need to ALL come forward and be brazen and vocal. He can't kill them all.

Right now, Woodward, paul and Cruz need to be very careful.

And I wish I was just paranoid.

[BruceS]

Rand Paul: I Don’t Think Obama Will Kill Americans

And neither would Clinton. Janet Reno on the other hand...

Now about Eric Holder or Janet Napalitano...

[cripplecreek]

Obama would have killed the Hutaree rather than risk them all being acquitted.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

He most certainly has killed Americans. The biggest danger I see is these pansyassed PC politicians underestimating the guile of the Zero.

[Mashood]

Obama assassinate US citizens in this country? Nawwww... really?

[Renegade]

If the Brown Clown kills AMERICANS on American soil he better brush up on the Bible verse of “ An Eye For An Eye”

[concerned about politics]

The question is: Does one man alone, oboma, a racist and bigot with a chip on his shoulder, have the right to kill Americans on American soil at will?

That's what this is. The rest doesn't matter. The title of "Terrorist" will be his and his alone to give.

That's a pretty scary thought. That's how far America has fallen.

The left supports a dictatorial drone program - for now. If the economy can hold out until 2016 and we take the presidency with, say, a outspoken TEA Party member, will they still feel the same? Would they still feel secure in their homes?

[clamper1797]

I have no doubt that Obama will target people on his enemies list as soon as he can.

[allmendream]

“Who will rid me of this turbulent Priest?!?!”

;)

[thoolou]

And Rand moves one more place toword GOPe... Punk.

[Bratch]

FYI, Brian Williams just read the headlines for his evening newscast.

Not one word about the filibuster or the drone strike situation. The MSM is going to ignore this just like everything else that might cast the President in an unfavorable light.

[Uncle Miltie]

So if we have “clear rules” the Executive can murder people without due process?

[Beowulf9]

From the filibuster:

Paraphrased slightly: “The point is the president should come forward and explain his position.

Whether or not we believe in America that there are some rights in America we are not giving up on.

It’s about constitutional principles that we should not give up on.

We need to fight for something that is classicly American. Our individual rights. To be tried on a court by our peers.” ~ Senator Rand Paul

[bgill]

Tell that to Young, Bland and Spencer of the Trinity church, Harris and a little kid in Jakarta.

[Bratch]

And now they’re talking about it.

And they’re giving a pretty balanced report. Another accomplishment for Senator Paul.

[bgill]

He’ll make someone else do it so he doesn’t take any blame.

And then he can claim he didn't know anything about it.

[clearcarbon]

His methodology for domestic issues is a little more subtle.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Clever wording by Paul. He’s putting the concept out there before Americans who might never have considered it, and doing it in a way that guarantees a lot of media outlets will pick it up and repeat it as “proof” that Obama is a good guy...”even the right-wing Tea Partiers think so!”

[Red Steel]

And then he can claim he didn't know anything about it.

Followed by blaming it on Buuuuuush and the Repubs.

[null and void]

Check back around this summer Mr. Paul...
I'm betting the SHTF by August.

I'm guessing 4th of July.

He would want to crap on America's holiday, and all he needs to do is fail to fund EBT cards on July 1st.

[Doc Savage]

He would love to call in drone strikes tonight. Nothing would give this little Hitler more pleasure. Someone has to stop this.

[mirkwood]

After a particularly fired-up rally in Minnesota, Mr McCain was booed when he tried to soothe the crowd, defending Mr. Obama as “a decent person and a person you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States.”

[mykroar]

I’m wondering if the “tonight” wasn’t a bit of a zing.

[doosee]

Clinton and Janet Reno attacked and murdered citizens and got away with it.

[sergeantdave]

“Rand Paul: I Don’t Think Obama Will Kill Americans”

Cool, it’s a rhetorical question: I don’t think that Italians will hang Mussolini from meat hooks in Milanese Square.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Disambiguator]

"I frankly don't think he'll be killing people in their homes tonight," Paul said.

What about tomorrow night?