Posted on 11/03/2008 1:47:43 AM PST by robert david
During the so-called presidential debates, I failed to hear a single mention of the U.S. Constitution, which should have been the chief subject. What are the proper powers of government, of the federal government, and of the president? These questions don’t even come up anymore. The debaters wrangle heatedly about “the economy”—a phrase that never appears in the text of the Constitution but preoccupies today’s pundits and politicians.
Neither of the major-party presidential candidates, let alone President Bush, could have held an intelligent conversation with Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, or John Jay, the authors of The Federalist, our best known commentary on that Constitution. I happen to think that time has proved abundantly that their opponents, the “anti-Federalists,” were profoundly right in their fears of where adoption of the Constitution—a grievous act of centralization—would lead: to say no more about it, to a gigantic war between the states, to two world wars, and to the endless usurpation of power implicit in all yakking about “the economy.”
Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin can no more undo this sorry history than he can reverse the direction of the globe’s axial rotation. (I believe in miracles, but I don’t expect them in politics.) And he and I might well disagree on the authority of the Constitution itself. But he is a godly, reasonable, wise, and intelligent man—as worthy a candidate as I ever expect to see. He knows what the Tenth Amendment means; he understands the crucial 45th number of The Federalist, which reminds us that the powers delegated to the federal government are “few and defined,” whereas those remaining with the states are “numerous and indefinite.” Furthermore, he knows what the Holy Scriptures mean when they speak of a woman being “with child”; and no amount of pseudoconstitutional gobbledygook about “choice” or “privacy” can shake him on this point. His horror at legal abortion is still fresh.
I’ve been reading Chuck Baldwin’s essays for several years. My first reaction to them was to wish we had rulers who could read him, grasp what he was saying, and take it to heart. I never dreamed I would have the chance to vote for him myself.
My rules; Sobran SHALL NOT be entitled to complain about a Barack the Redistributor’s adminsitration, should it get in ~ period ~ and what that would do to our precious Constitution.
Nor shall he be allowed to decry limits on the 2nd amendment, free speech or judiciary appointments that will turn the tide on liberty in our nation.
(Insert loud booming echo voice here)
SO IT IS WRITTEN, SO IT SHALL BEEEEEEE!
Who is endorsing who? Is this from some election going on in Lichtenstein?
If Obama wins, I doubt any of us will be allowed to complain period. Us mere mortals can’t criticize The One.
Just make sure all your personal affairs, will and testament, etc. are in order before you do.
I understand my neighbor’s 10 year old son is throwing his weight behind my cat’s presidential bid. Pointless, but so is this.
I agree. No one who votes third party in 2008 will be getting much sympathy from me when the brown shirts drag them off to reeducation plant.
Then I saw 4 different vehicles on the way home with NOBAMA stickers on them..
To me this was a sign :)
If I were in a non-battleground state I would cast my vote for Baldwin, but alas, Im in PA and I gotta make it count! :)
I thought Joe Sobran was dead ... but nope, he’s still attempting to write humor. Give it up, Joe; you’ll never be P.J. O’Rourke.
I had been waiting for ol’ Joe to weigh-in. NOT!!!
Somewhere, McCain must have said that he believed in the Holocaust.
I think Bill The Cat pretty much has the cat vote shored up.
Sobran is still alive?
If you are trying to call Baldwin antisemite by implication you are nothing more than stuff we need to scrape off of our shoes.
Men aren't made much better than Baldwin; and certainly not you.
“my neighbor’s 10 year old son is throwing his weight behind my cat’s presidential bid.”
Is your cat registered to vote?
No, he's Republican. I had another cat that died a few years back. I hear the he went over to the dark side and now votes straight dem.
“I had another cat that died a few years back. I hear the he went over to the dark side and now votes straight dem.”
Bad pussycat! I’m sure he votes more than once.
it might be fun if they send us all to the same re-ed camp
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