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The Picture That Should Cost Obama His Job (Lets Make It Happen)
PJ Media ^ | September 15, 2012 | Roger Kimball

Posted on 09/16/2012 8:36:05 AM PDT by Kaslin

Instapundit heads the piece “Why Barack Obama Should Resign.” That’s a good title. The column might also be titled, “Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid.” I remember a line from the philosopher David Hume that Hayek used as an epigraph to The Road to Serfdom. “It is seldom,” said Hume, “that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.” There’s the innocent seeming accommodation here, the turning a blind eye to official violations of the law there, and, bang, before you can say Saul Alinsky, people are being rounded up at midnight by brownshirted men for making a movie that embarrasses El Presidente.

In case you think that is a baseless exaggeration by a knuckle-dragging, right-wing hater, take a look at the photo:

By way of explication, Glenn Reynolds quotes the L.A. Times: “Just after midnight Saturday morning, authorities descended on the Cerritos home of the man believed to be the filmmaker behind the anti-Muslim movie that has sparked protests and rioting in the Muslim world.”

Got that? The chap made a movie. (He may also have violated probation, but that herring is red, Comrade.) As Glenn observes, “By sending — literally — brownshirted enforcers to engage in — literally — a midnight knock at the door of a man for the non-crime of embarrassing the President of the United States and his administration, President Obama violated that oath. . . . It is a betrayal of his duties as President, and a disgrace.”

Yep. And he should resign. And, as Glenn further observes, he surely won’t. But the people of the United States, Democrat as well as Republican, should turn him out of office ignominiously in November.


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To: philman_36

Yeah, I noticed it


61 posted on 09/16/2012 10:43:56 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin
Yeah, I noticed it
I sure don't see any arrest for a threat being made though.
I guess the LEOs didn't see that.

See nothing, hear nothing...

62 posted on 09/16/2012 10:51:00 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Paine in the Neck
He was whisked away for the sole purpose to be interviewed/interrogated by the feds.

Not quite. He was whisked away for the purpose of outing him to the muzzies

Not quite. Before LASD arrive at the residence, there was an army of camped out reporters, fleets of news trucks, cameras in the street, news choppers etc. He was ID'd way before being whisked away.

63 posted on 09/16/2012 10:56:06 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
...an army of camped out reporters, fleets of news trucks, cameras in the street, news choppers etc

And they just happened on the scene? Come on. They were all given a heads up to be there when the guy was carted off.

64 posted on 09/16/2012 11:04:37 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything)
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To: Paine in the Neck
Wrong again...The army of news media was there in the morning, long before midnight when the local government whisked him away to have a little talk with the feds.


65 posted on 09/16/2012 11:10:05 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: RetSignman

I have no issue with your stated goals of the Islamists. Where we differ is that 1) Not enough time before the election to acheive those goals 2) Politically, Obama is toast either way. If he does not retaliate he’s dead in the water, and if he does he gains not one conservative vote but loses a large part of his loony lefty base. All just my opinion, of course.


66 posted on 09/16/2012 11:18:44 AM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: jdsteel

[All just my opinion, of course.]

As was mine but with a desperate Marxist in our White House, nothing should be discounted.


67 posted on 09/16/2012 12:10:00 PM PDT by RetSignman
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To: Kaslin

68 posted on 09/16/2012 1:24:26 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: Kaslin

Bill Maher To Muslim Rep. Keith Ellison: The Qur’an Is A ‘Hate Filled Holy Book’

http://youtu.be/kGUB5TZD29M


69 posted on 09/16/2012 1:42:57 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Every conservative knew the attacks were coming... 3.5 years ago when Obama was elected.)
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To: RetSignman

Obama with full DNC and MSM blessing would nuke Iowa and strafe the survivors to stay in power.


70 posted on 09/16/2012 1:44:37 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Every conservative knew the attacks were coming... 3.5 years ago when Obama was elected.)
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To: Kaslin

What are the names of the men in the brown shirts?

These names should be on every billboard in America.


71 posted on 09/16/2012 2:02:49 PM PDT by wintertime (:-))
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To: Kaslin

He might have broken the law. But it wasn’t the movie.

He wasn’t supposed to use the internet or something...


72 posted on 09/16/2012 2:06:44 PM PDT by Freddd (No PA Engineers)
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To: NoLibZone

You’ll get no argument from me there.


73 posted on 09/16/2012 2:11:15 PM PDT by RetSignman
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To: NoLibZone

All I can say is wow Maher said that to Keith Elison?


74 posted on 09/16/2012 2:15:08 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: tophat9000

“.i do no get the impression they are happy to be doing dear leaders dirty work...”

“I was just following orders” is not an acceptable defense.


75 posted on 09/16/2012 2:53:14 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: RetSignman

Bravo to post #19


76 posted on 09/16/2012 3:51:37 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: A CA Guy
Could possibly not have anything to do with the Feds

Possible - but let us not beat around the bush here, the film and political scapegoating of same is EXACTLY why that guy was hauled in. To believe anything else would just be pretending, y'know, about unicorns and glitter and stuff.

77 posted on 09/16/2012 4:22:06 PM PDT by Clinging Bitterly (We need to limit political office holders to two terms. One in office, and one in prison.)
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To: Irish Eyes

We Irish tend to think alike. :)


78 posted on 09/16/2012 4:29:02 PM PDT by RetSignman
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To: Nik Naym
“I was just following orders” is not an acceptable defense.

Now it's "I got a wife and kids to think about."

79 posted on 09/16/2012 4:36:35 PM PDT by papertyger
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To: Michael.SF.
Parole violators, especially those of non-violent crimes, are almost never rounded up at midnight by a squad of armed brownshirts.

This was all about the movie, and not a parole violation. But I perceive you may be trying to convince yourself, more than to convince others.

Please Google "muddy the waters". Obviously you have no idea what it means.

80 posted on 09/16/2012 5:05:34 PM PDT by expat1000
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