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Obama to Palin: 'Don't Mock the Constitution'
Washington Post ^

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chutzpah; foreignpolicy; mccainpalin; obamabiden; potcallskettleblack
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To: Chet 99


141 posted on 09/08/2008 7:52:43 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: Chet 99
"We don't always catch the right person," he said. "We may think it's Mohammed the terrorist, but it might be Mohammed the cab driver. You might think it's Barack the bomb-thrower, but it might be Barack the guy running for president."

Again with the Muslim thing? Man, does this guy have an inferiority complex or what?

142 posted on 09/08/2008 7:53:21 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (What do Barack Obama and a bowl of chili have in common?)
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To: Chet 99

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.


143 posted on 09/08/2008 7:54:01 PM PDT by ODDITHER
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To: All
Don't Mock the Constitution.

Really? This is why Barack should never be allowed to speak without his speech being vetted first. This response is infantile and just makes him look reactionary; intimidated by the polling out today.

If he keeps doing this he'll undo all the progress the D-MSM is making in destroying Sarah with their exposes on Christians who read the Bible as opposed to using it to prop up an uneven table.

144 posted on 09/08/2008 7:54:27 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: Chet 99
Sen. Barack Obama delivered an impassioned defense of the Constitution

Stop, you're giving me gas!

and the rights of terrorism suspects tonight

... But that one I do believe.

145 posted on 09/08/2008 7:54:45 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: Chet 99
And let's not forget who else taught constitutional law from 1973 to 1976 at the University of Arkansas Law School...Bill Clinton!
And we all know what he did to the Constitution!
146 posted on 09/08/2008 7:55:06 PM PDT by philman_36
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To: DouglasKC
In fact, just where is Biden??

Developing a serious health issue so that he can be gracefully replaced by Hitlery?

147 posted on 09/08/2008 7:55:34 PM PDT by thingumbob (Dead terrorists don't make more terrorists!)
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To: Brilliant
Some comments from the WAPO article. Maybe a Freeper. If so, take a bow. Well done.

Obama mocked the US consitution by saying "they bitterly hold to their religion and guns" both guaranteed by the constitution amendments.

148 posted on 09/08/2008 7:55:36 PM PDT by listenhillary (Palin accomplished more in the PTA than Obama did as a community organizer)
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To: genxer
He is just breath-takingly stupid. These people are not covered under the constitution. The problem is the far left keeps trying to apply the constitution to any breathing person.

Well of course -- we are all Citizens of the World, after all....

/s

149 posted on 09/08/2008 7:55:44 PM PDT by unspun (Mike Huckabee: Government's job is "protect us, not have to provide for us.")
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To: hsalaw
...if they capture these terrorists, they may be facing them again in a few months.

Yes sir, terrible dilemma. That it is, yes siree bob. What to do, what to do?

150 posted on 09/08/2008 7:56:00 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: scooby321

> Is Obama running for VP?

You’ve hit on the key point here. This is a face-off that Obama simply cannot win, even if he does (and he’s got his hands full trying). He’s going after the #2 person on the Pub ticket. The more time he wastes there the freer Mac is to play his own game. If Biden can’t neutralize Palin, and thus free up O, the Dems are doomed.


151 posted on 09/08/2008 7:56:39 PM PDT by Paul_B
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To: Chet 99

She’s not mocking the Constitution, Obama. She’s mocking you.


152 posted on 09/08/2008 7:56:50 PM PDT by Hugin (Mecca delenda est!)
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To: ovrtaxt

“0” (zero) Boy, while you are at it produce a legit citizenship document! And if you can get John Kerry to release his military docs as well, you would be called the messiah.


153 posted on 09/08/2008 7:57:32 PM PDT by Squat (Deport the illegals now! Turn Home Depot's into the prisons to hold the illegals!.)
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To: Dawn531

154 posted on 09/08/2008 7:58:00 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Chet 99
Sen. Barack Obama delivered an impassioned defense of the Constitution and the rights of terrorism suspects tonight

Sept 8th thinking...say it again in three days at ground zero and see how well it plays

155 posted on 09/08/2008 7:59:16 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Hey Bill Maher...who's the stewardess now bitch!)
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To: Chet 99
Good grief, this guy is scared to death of his opponent's VP pick. What an amateur. Yeah, this is the guy I want as CIC. I mean, sheesh! I wonder if he has had a bad experience in the past with Michelle and a pair of her pumps. Embarrassing.
156 posted on 09/08/2008 7:59:22 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: Squat

It would be like watching Mindfreak!


157 posted on 09/08/2008 7:59:33 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (I <3 my PitBull. Sic em girl!!)
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To: tomnbeverly
“Anybody who was involved in 9/11, take ‘em out”

UM.....Mr. O' Bomber, sir? I think most of them took themselves out .....on.....UM....9/11....

158 posted on 09/08/2008 7:59:51 PM PDT by thingumbob (Dead terrorists don't make more terrorists!)
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To: Chet 99

His very existence as a semi-viable candidate for President is a mockery of the Constitution, and he’s worried about her?


159 posted on 09/08/2008 8:00:06 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Hugin

This guy is Imploding.

Maybe he only wants to be the nominee, to make his consultant friends rich.


160 posted on 09/08/2008 8:01:21 PM PDT by igoramus08
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