And more recently, on September 18, 2013, Rand Paul uttered these very words to the Senate Judiciary Committee:
And I think what a tragedy it would it would have been if he [Hussein Obama] had gone to prison. What a tragedy it would have been that America wouldn't have gotten to see Barack Obama as a leader.
No, I'm not making this up nor is it taken out of context. See the unaltered video here and hear his repulsive words at the 4:50 mark. Anyone who thinks it's a tragedy that Hussein Obama isn't in prison is simply not a Patriot. And for Rand Paul (like father, like son) to characterize Hussein Obama as a "leader" is beyond the pale.
Holy cow.
Very interesting !
Thanks for posting the link to that video, although I’m almost certainly doing so for reasons other than you intended.
I watched the entire video. Senator Paul is a sincere legislator trying to right wrongs and injustices. Anyone watching the video can figure that out. He also, in that one speech, offered more support to blacks and Hispanics than our President has in his entire presidency.
I also noted that after he made the reference to President Obama that you cited, that he hesitated for a moment, probably playing back in his head the way his quote would be used by his GOP opponents. Clearly, his intent was to say that a future, first black, President of the United States could have been jailed for a minor drug offense and never thereafter have been elected.
While you might justifiably think, in this particular case, that it’s too bad a young Obama didn’t get caught, tried and convicted so that we could have avoided the travesty of his Presidency, that is hardly the point that Senator Paul was making. Quite the opposite, in fact, as he was speaking to squelching potential, the same as with the rest of his excellent speech.
Do you think if you took that quote in a different context in that had he been put in prison we wouldn’t have seen what a true socialist/marxist disaster is waiting around every corner? Your inference that Paul is a supporter of the obama presidency is a bit ridiculous for me to consider.