He'd probably read anything put on a teleprompter.
Posted on 02/12/2008 4:41:02 PM PST by Libloather
Obama's Dangerous Ignorance
February 12, 2008
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RUSH: I'm sitting here reading this Obama interview, and I am in stunned disbelief. Nobody can be this ignorant. Scary ignorant. From high atop the EIB Building in Midtown Manhattan, one of the most frequently visited tourist attractions in all of Manhattan, I am Rush Limbaugh, behind the Golden EIB Microphone. Great to have you with us. Here's the phone number, 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address is ElRushbo@eibnet.com. It's a Q&A with Barack Obama December 20th in the Boston Globe, Charlie Savage wrote the story. Try this one. This is number five. "Does the Constitution permit a president to detain US citizens without charges as unlawful enemy combatants?" Obama's answer: "No. I reject the Bush Administration's claim that the President has plenary authority under the Constitution to detain U.S. citizens without charges as unlawful enemy combatants." Memo to Obama: It is not the Bush administration's position. The Supreme Court held in 2004 -- this is the famous case, US vs. Hamdi. The president has the power to detain American citizens without charges as enemy combatants. Now, I just have to think here -- I don't know what to think. He's either ignorant or he's saying something far more dangerous. If he is saying that he's not bound by the Supreme Court's interpretation of the law, liberals would have a stroke if Bush claimed the kind of authority that Obama is claiming in this -- and ignorance.
Liberals are out there going bonkers every day over how stupid Bush is. This Obama interview is just scary. Let's see. Find another one here. He gets it wrong on who ratifies treaties and who consents to them. He says the president doesn't have the authority to abolish treaties. And the president does! Bush abolished the ABM treaty shortly after taking office because Bush said it's irrelevant. The Soviets are gone. I'm getting rid of this. The liberals went nuts, but they couldn't stop him because the president does have the authority to get rid of treaties. Obama says here that the president does not have the authority to undermine Congress, the Senate here, which ratifies treaties. The Senate doesn't ratify, they consent to them. The president makes treaties, negotiates them, comes up with them. When's the last time you saw Gorbachev meeting with some senator at Reykjavik or anywhere else? Gorbachev met with Reagan, for crying out loud.
This interview sets McCain up. There's a sitting duck out there. There's a sitting duck for McCain if he wants to exploit this. Andy McCarthy posted an article today, National Review Online, discussing the announcement that military prosecutors have decided to seek the death penalty against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five others who are complicit in the 9/11 attacks. This is the 9/11 Six, and the article raises the issue of what kind of enforcement paradigm we're going to have. Do we go back to the September 10th approach of treating foreign jihadists as if they were ordinary criminal defendants entitled to all the rights and privileges of the civilian justice system, or should we treat the enemy as a war criminal in a conflict in which it's vital that we protect the intelligence we depend on to save American lives? In other words, are we going to go back to the Jamie Gorelick Clinton days where we're going to treat these enemy combatants as just civilians in court and we're going to hear testimony and we're going to divulge intelligence secrets of what it took to nail them, or are we going to treat them as enemy combatants, military tribunals and this kind of thing?
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They will prep and wind him up good for the debates. He will look and sound good.
God save the Republic!
McCain better get that 1191.
Liberal lawyer Obama has designs on retiring the supreme court. The Consititution is nothing but a fairy tale.
This guy is dangerous.
Obama’s new nickname, “Obama the Dumb”.
The man is a disgrace to education.
Looks like the perfect opportunity for Clinton to me at this point....but alas..she probably doesn’t know our constitution either! It’s ‘living and breathing’ dontcha know...lol
No, Obama is not “dumb”. Ignorant in vital areas —yes. Wrong, dead wrong in other areas, double yes. But he might not be a slick, as slick Willie...
Do not underestimate Obama and his handlers. The “talking head” factor weighs heavily in a media saturated society.
Obama’s series lack of ground will have no effect whatsoever on his voting public. He still knows more than they do.
slitting = splitting
**Obama’s Dangerous Ignorance (a sitting duck for McCain)**
Definitely!
He’s a trained lawyer?? If that is correct he must be an Ivy League lawyer.
He'd probably read anything put on a teleprompter.
I'm trying to envision prospective Obama voters who would be convinced to vote for McCain by any of this...and I'm not seeing any.
ofcourse it won’t. Obama is just telling dems what they want to hear.
“I’ll solve global warming.”
“I’ll end the Iraq war.”
“I’ll make peace with all our enemies.”
“I’ll turn all our schools into marble covered palaces.”
on and on and on. What he isn’t doing is telling them what they NEED TO HEAR.
He says nothing, and in fine style, got to admit he has speaking skills. He could be in trouble if he ever actually says anything.
If this character gets elected, it will truly be an “Obama-nation”
http://www.nuwireinvestor.com/blogs/investorcentric/2008/02/presidential-candidate-budget-analysis.htmlThis post (<-click) shows how misguided politicians like Obama are foolishly following in the footsteps of FDR's dirty politics. The problem with FDR is that he scandalously ignored the 10th A. protected powers of the states in order to establish his constitutionally unauthorized New Deal programs.
The people need to wise up to federal politicians like Obama who are not only not keeping abreast of recent USSC decisions, but who also evidently aren't aware of constitutional federal spending restraints. The people need to send clueless D.C. politicians like Obama home as opposed to trying to send him to the Oval Office.
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