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When He Talks Abortion, President Obama Pretends to Be a Libertarian
The Atlantic ^ | Apr 29 2013 | Conor Friedersdorf

Posted on 05/02/2013 4:07:23 PM PDT by presidio9

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1 posted on 05/02/2013 4:07:23 PM PDT by presidio9
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Anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life SCUMBAG POS TREASONOUS TOTALITARIAN.

FUBO


2 posted on 05/02/2013 4:12:25 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: presidio9

Was this part of the Street organizer mentality of always being on the winning side to get other people to do what he wanted?


3 posted on 05/02/2013 4:12:52 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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4 posted on 05/02/2013 4:15:11 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: presidio9
Most of us here are libertarian, but strongly pro-life because it's a fundamental human right enshrined in the Declaration.

Maybe "pro-choice" libertarians should be called LieBarbarians ?

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5 posted on 05/02/2013 4:15:12 PM PDT by repentant_pundit (Sammy's your uncle, but he behaves like a spoiled rotten kid.)
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Most of us here are libertarian, but strongly pro-life because it's a fundamental human right enshrined in the Declaration.

Agreed that there is a vocal group of libertarians, but nothing like a majority. If you are a libertarian hanging out here, you are lost. This is, was, and always will be a conservative website.

6 posted on 05/02/2013 4:24:34 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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There is nothing libertarian about an act designed to take anther person’s life.

That is called murder! There was no mutual consent to this act, nor any willfully choice on the part of the one who was killed.


7 posted on 05/02/2013 4:24:51 PM PDT by Monorprise
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There is nothing libertarian about an act designed to take anther person’s life.

That is called murder! There was no mutual consent to this act, nor any willfully choice on the part of the one who was killed.

They were simply murdered because someone else didn’t want to accept responsibility for their own actions. This is no different than killing your banker because you don’t want to repay the lone you just took out.


8 posted on 05/02/2013 4:27:03 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: presidio9

I was wondering when Free Republic became a libertarian site. My browser still brings up a completely conservative manifesto, right down to sodomite “marriage”, immigration, etc.


9 posted on 05/02/2013 4:28:49 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: repentant_pundit

“Maybe “pro-choice” libertarians should be called LieBarbarians ?”

Perhaps Although in truth their position is simply hypocritical for one of two reasons:

1: They could be pretending to decide for other humans whether or not they are a person protected from being killed.

2: They ignore that decision and simply focus on their own need to be rid of that ‘problem’ they created by their own willfully choice to have sex.

In truth abortion is no different than someone rationalize the murder of their landlord so they don’t have to pay rent.


10 posted on 05/02/2013 4:33:16 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: presidio9

A real libertarian knows that the basic unit of life is the Individual. That respect for the Rights of the Individual come first. Killing a human is by definition murder, regardless of if that human resides in the womb of another human.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is either lying about being a libertarian or has never thought the calculus through.

Or, is trying to paint us all with the same brush to further their own anti-freedom agenda...


11 posted on 05/02/2013 4:33:37 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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If you are a libertarian hanging out here, you are lost. This is, was, and always will be a conservative website.

I know. I've been a Freeper since 1997.

My comments on this site thru the years prove I'm ultra-conservative, if you take a look at them.

I would not call myself a "Libertarian".

Unlike LieBarbarians, I'm also against open borders. But I hold many libertarian views. Again, 2 big exceptions are abortion and borders.

12 posted on 05/02/2013 4:33:43 PM PDT by repentant_pundit (Sammy's your uncle, but he behaves like a spoiled rotten kid.)
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To: mrsmel

You need to refresh your web cash... Just kidding. Free republic is a conservative site. American Conservatives are just libertarians on most issues.


13 posted on 05/02/2013 4:35:56 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: presidio9

What is it exactly you are trying to “conserve”? A respect for freedom, our Rights, and our Republic?

Or are you just fighting over the controls of our degenerate “Democracy”

If the latter, maybe YOU are on the wrong site...


14 posted on 05/02/2013 4:37:37 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: presidio9

“No insurer should get to decide what kind of care that you get.”

That’s great! I guess Tricare (military insurance) will now cover the TWO medications I was recently prescribed that they wouldn’t pay for!


15 posted on 05/02/2013 4:37:51 PM PDT by suthener
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To: repentant_pundit

The mistake that you are making when you call yourself a “libertarian conservative” is this: “Small l” libertarians and conservative both tend to fall under the “Republican” umbrella, but they are two essentially different political philosophies. A good rule of thumb is generally (but not always) “What would Reagan do?”


16 posted on 05/02/2013 4:46:09 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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I was wondering when Free Republic became a libertarian site. My browser still brings up a completely conservative manifesto, right down to sodomite “marriage”, immigration, etc.

It's not. The belief comes from the meglomania that creates libertarians. Most of us probably leaned libertarian when we were in college because we thought we were smarter than everyone else. Those of us who really were smart became conservatives, because we recognized how naive the libertarian world view actually was. My estimate is that perhaps as many as 15% of the regular posters on FR are libertarians.

17 posted on 05/02/2013 4:49:59 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: Dead Corpse

Wisdom has taught me to avoid debating libertarians so I will say this: This is not about right or wrong. I respect that you feel strongly about your position. My point was that this website self-identifies as conservative. As you are not a conservative I don’t see why you are not inspired to create your own dedicated libertarians website.


18 posted on 05/02/2013 4:53:24 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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IOW, you have no idea what you are trying to “conserve”...

Here’s a hint, it starts with an “L”... Our Constitution was founded to preserve it.


19 posted on 05/02/2013 5:12:36 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: presidio9

The demographic damage done to blacks by legalized abortion can clearly be seen in every US city as they shift from black to brown; blacks now “ride in back” (to paraphrase the Kenyan Pirate) and are no longer the fair-haired boys of the Dems. Hispanics are increasing their role dramatically in the Dem machine, at the cost of blacks and white libs (in terms of political offices, patronage jobs, etc.). In the private sector companies that were being extorted by the legal arm of the government have simply resorted to fill their employees’ ranks with Hispanics, and they are untouchable by the diversity police.


20 posted on 05/02/2013 5:29:21 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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