Posted on 10/29/2008 2:49:12 AM PDT by The Raven
In a radio interview in 2001, then-Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama noted -- somewhat ruefully -- that the same Supreme Court that ordered political and educational equality in the 1960s and 1970s did not bring about economic equality as well. Although Mr. Obama said he could come up with arguments for the constitutionality of such action, the plain meaning of the Constitution quite obviously prohibits it.
Getty Images FDR tried to pack the Supreme Court. Mr. Obama is hardly alone in his expansive view of legitimate government. During the past month, Sen. John McCain (who, like Sen. Obama, voted in favor of the $700 billion bank bailout) has been advocating that $300 billion be spent to pay the monthly mortgage payments of those in danger of foreclosure. The federal government is legally powerless to do that, as well.
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt first proposed legislation that authorized the secretary of agriculture to engage in Soviet-style central planning -- a program so rigid that it regulated how much wheat a homeowner could grow for his own family's consumption -- he rejected arguments of unconstitutionality. He proclaimed that the Constitution was "quaint" and written in the "horse and buggy era," and predicted the public and the courts would agree with him.
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What Obama is talking about is legalizing seizing wealth from citizens and giving it to others.
Hey Judge...MOST Presidents do NOT.....ONLY DEMOCRAT ones do...you IDIOT.
Napolitano for the Supreme Court?
I have found the writings of Napolitano to be very insightful and instructive. I highly recommend his books on the subject of the Constitution.
A lawyer for Obama. What a shock. NOT
Wasn’t this the same guy who told the FoxNews team that the Pendleton Eight were guilty?
Napolitano has lost all credibility with his idiocy on "Brian & the Judge". The show is unlistenable when he is on. Few people in the media are so completely in the tank for Obama, yet he claims to be a Libertarian.
How is one a Libertarian when he supprts a Marxist?
Mr. McCain can be persuaded off a position with legal protest and writings.
I don’t know what methods would be necessary to persuade nobama away from his positions.
Defeat nobama now, fight McCain later.
Napolitano drives me crazy. I quit listening to the Tony Snow Show, err, Brian and the Judge because the two of them are nothing but devil’s advocates. Plus, his laugh is grating.
maybe adifference between “ignore” and “flout?” Although FDR’s quote, not surprisingly, rises to the levl as well.
I have a hard time watching him he reminds me of a grown up Eddie Munster.
What is frightening is not whether the Presidents and Congress ignores the Constitution, but whether the courts ignores it. The courts are suppose to protect the rights of the individuals. If the Supreme Court will not enforce basic principles then we’ve become a third world country left to the dictates of those over us, stacking the courts as they see fit.
LLS
Yep... no seer here.
LLS
Ah, a good ol’ return to Free Repubic’s roots - fighting for the Constitution. I knew it would take Jorge leaving office for it to happen.
Kelo is a prime example.....
“A lawyer for Obama. What a shock. NOT”
You should try reading the article. It’s not a pro-Obama column.
Agreed. He is insightful and Fair.
So the Judiciary and Congress pushed-back against Roosevelt but who is going to push-back against the Promised One?
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