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He swore to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

He is now under oath. He will be held to it.


113 posted on 01/20/2009 9:07:40 AM PST by Matchett-PI (Obama fully intends to tear down our Constitution. So no, I do not want Obama to succeed.)
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To: Matchett-PI

“He swore to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. He is now under oath. He will be held to it.”

No, because he’s not an American citizen.


181 posted on 01/20/2009 9:19:39 AM PST by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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He swore to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.
- Barack Hussein Obama, 2001

He won't uphold the Constitution. He sees it as an obstacle in his way.

338 posted on 01/20/2009 9:40:28 AM PST by a fool in paradise
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