Posted on 09/08/2008 7:21:29 PM PDT by Chet 99
Obama to Palin: 'Don't Mock the Constitution'
By Peter Slevin
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. -- Sen. Barack Obama delivered an impassioned defense of the Constitution and the rights of terrorism suspects tonight, striking back at one of the biggest applause lines in Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's speech to the GOP convention.
It was in St. Paul last week that Palin drew raucous cheers when she delivered this put-down of Obama: "Al-Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America and he's worried that someone won't read them their rights."
Obama had a few problems with that.
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...
He was selected to be head of the HLR; he didn't make it on grades. And I'm not sure he wrote even one article.
“There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.”
Justice Robert H. Jackson, 1949
I think there should be a pool on FR about what date this guy completely spazzes out. He can not conceptualize the idea that there are people who do not like him. He is a mental case.
Bingo!
As with all liberals, Obama doesn’t understand what the Constitution is all about. The left has a common disrespect for the Constitution. They enjoy trampling on it as often as possible.
That's exactly what he said, believe it or not.
I can’t wait to see how many people show up at Fairfax High School Wednesday for the McCain/Palin rally.
There seems to be a lot of interest. My daughter and I are going, because we are witnessing history here — the first female VP in our Nation’s History.
So, Sarah was right. You would read them their Miranda Rights, give them a lawyer, arraign them, free them after they post bail and then allow them one phone call so they can tell their friends where they are where they can be picked up?
I was certain this was an AZConservative piece. Is he really dissembling before our eyes?
“Let them enforce their decision.”
Unfortunately that only works if both the Pres. and Congress are willing to stand up to the S.Ct. This wimpy Congress does not have the guts to stand up to abuse of power by the judiciary, and without the support of the Congress, the President can’t get away with thumbing his nose at the black-robed thugs.
The Constitution is also for those we allow into this country. A Brit is as protected by it as you if he is here legally. Our laws are written to over citizens and non-citizens alike and they must be in a civilized country.
Now if you come here illegally or to kill us the Constitutional protections start to go away but are not entirely absent.
“[W]hen a strict interpretation of the Constitution, according to the fixed rules which govern the interpretation of laws, is abandoned, and the theoretical opinions of individuals are allowed to control its meaning, we have no longer a Constitution; we are under the government of individual men, who for the time being have power to declare what the Constitution is, according to their own views of what it ought to mean.”
~~~ Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis, 1857, Dred Scott Decision: Dissenting Opinion
Terrible dilemma for our troops - if they capture these terrorists, they may be facing them again in a few months.
OK I got a real problem with this point......
“My position has always been clear: If you’ve got a terrorist, take him out,” Obama said. “Anybody who was involved in 9/11, take ‘em out”
It implies in simple logic that you cannot act until after the person commits the crime... and you must know everyone that committed the crime and judge them first and kill them without regard without investigation. So in fact by his own admission there really is no reason to give Habeous Corpus because you already Took them out....
Last seen on the side of a milk carton.
//Joe Biden has just evaporated into dust.//
The internal polling must be even worse than I can guess.
Yeah, I plead mind cramp. Wouldn’t want to stir up the congress with a Democrat majority.
while we’re at it, neither does the geneva convention.
Ha! I had to scroll up to see if this was one of yours.
Interesting that he called it “Anglo-American” law. As if it doesn’t apply to him just to Anglos?
He must be french - they are the only ones that refer anglo americans.
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