Posted on 04/17/2008 6:33:59 AM PDT by Bobarian
Obama is quoted saying this during last night's debate:
"I believe that the Constitution confers an individual right to bear arms. But just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right," he said.
Let's plug some different variables into this equation and see if it adds up:
"Just because you have an individual right [to bear arms] does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right."
"Just because you have an individual right [to free speech] does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right."
"Just because you have an individual right [not to be searched unreasonably] does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right."
"Just because you have an individual right [to freely exercise religion] does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right."
"Just because you have an individual right [to an abortion] does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right."
Does anyone else find this disturbing, or are my panties in a wad over nothing?
Yeah... on the one hand, it is disturbing, even sickening what the constitution has come to mean. On the other hand, isn't this just the status quo - aka business as usual? I don't think anyone associates Hillary with liberty, and McCain has demonstrated that "Congress shall make no law restricting free speech" doesn't include his campaign finance reform.
Opps, that is awkward isn’t it:
“Just because you have an individual right [to an abortion] does not mean that the state or local government can’t constrain the exercise of that right.”
But he does that with every topic...It's his FORM of oratory....and non-commitment.
"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so." R.Reagan
Disturbing is not the word. Obama’s words are the words of a tyrant. He is a patient wolf.
And yet there are those that say JM and BHO - no difference.
This is why an ignorant moron like Obama will lose. He is essentially denying that all rights come from our Creator. What a stupid candidate.
Indeed, it appears that Senator Schumer (D NY) has developed this line of thinking into an art form where he can say he “supports” the Second Amendment, while filing bills that cut away and cut away who can enjoy that right and where he can enjoy it.
Since liberalism, at its core is where a person lies to himself, we can expect the will lie to everyone else too. Anyone who has listened to the oral arguments in DC v Heller will hear the attorney for the District of Columbia tell the US Supreme Court that their total ban on handguns in the District alway included a self defense exemption!
The positions that both Obama and Clinton have elaborated in public about the Second Amendment is just like that bold lie: after I ban all guns, you can still hunt and use yours to protect your family. Who you gonna believe, what I'm telling you now, or the law that I told the gun-grabbers I want to sign?
But the main point is you are correct - these leftists never explain their initial statements and nobody presses them on it. And they never go to forums where people would press them on it.
Such a simple truth. Such profound consequences when we forget that.
I took the mandatory NYS Hunting Safety class in 1962 to get my deer license. I got several bulls eyes on the test and I pasted it on the refrigerator...just like a kid.
“Just because you have an individual right [to an abortion] “
you do?
The left and their willing dupes, “conservative” atheists,
deny the existance of a Creator in order to deny that that’s where our rights originate.
Since the rights are conferred by man, or a construct of man, they can also be revoked in the same manner.
“...just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can’t constrain the exercise of that right...”
THIS from a candidate whose party opposes the Patriot Act!!!
I think the people who wrote the Constitution believed that the rights conferred restrained the government.
Of course, people of Obama’s persuasion think the Constitution is a silly old document written by slaveholders.
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