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The Elephant in the Room : Obama vs.United States
Philly ^ | April 10, 2009 | Rick Santorum

Posted on 04/09/2009 8:42:02 AM PDT by RobinMasters

The president is contemptuous of American values. And one key nominee prefers the judgment of other countries and global elites.

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Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. His nomination of former Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh to be the State Department's top lawyer constitutes further evidence of his disdain for American values.

This seemingly obscure position in Foggy Bottom's bureaucratic maze is one of the most important in any administration, shaping foreign policy in the courts and playing a critical role in international negotiations and treaties.

Let's set aside Koh's disputed comments about the possible application of Sharia law in American jurisprudence. The pick is alarming for more fundamental reasons having to do with national sovereignty and constitutional self-governance.

What is indisputable is that Koh calls himself a "transnationalist." He believes U.S. courts "must look beyond national interest to the mutual interests of all nations in a smoothly functioning international legal regime. ..." He thinks the courts have "a central role to play in domesticating international law into U.S. law" and should "use their interpretive powers to promote the development of a global legal system."

Koh's "transnationalism" stands in contrast to good, old-fashioned notions of national sovereignty, in which our Constitution is the highest law of the land. In the traditional view, controversial matters, whatever they may be, are subject to democratic debate here. They should be resolved by the American people and their representatives, not "internationalized." What Holland or Belgium or Kenya or any other nation or coalition of nations thinks has no bearing on our exercise of executive, legislative, or judicial power.

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bho44; first100days; santorum

1 posted on 04/09/2009 8:42:02 AM PDT by RobinMasters
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To: RobinMasters

My new novel is SO all over this!

In fact, it’s the main theme.


2 posted on 04/09/2009 8:50:03 AM PDT by Travis McGee ("Foreign Enemies And Traitors" has gone to the printer.)
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To: RobinMasters



The graphic might be funny
but what Hussein is doing is not.



3 posted on 04/09/2009 8:57:57 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Hezbollah - Al Qaeda - Obama - Stone Age)
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To: RobinMasters

Every day that passes I can’t believe the American people elected this regime.


4 posted on 04/09/2009 8:58:00 AM PDT by henkster (0bamanomics: "I'll loan you all the money you need to get out of debt.")
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To: Travis McGee

> My new novel is SO all over this!

You should see if Ian Wishart would publish and distribute your 3 books for you.

link here: http://www.investigatemagazine.com/products.htm

Ian is the owner and publisher of Investigate! magazine, a very good investigative current affairs publication chock-full of conspiracy theory stuff — much of which has a spooky habit of proving true a few months after Ian breaks the story.

His book publishing arm is called “Howling At The Moon Publications” — he has written a great number of books and published a few for other authors. His most notable works were surrounding the “Wine Box Affair”, a multi-billion-dollar tax scandal in the 1990s that he was intimately involved in busting.

I think your 3 books would fit his stable nicely.


5 posted on 04/09/2009 8:59:54 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: RobinMasters

BO can do whatever I don’t care. He will be gone in 2012.


6 posted on 04/09/2009 9:00:19 AM PDT by chippewaman
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To: RobinMasters

Pretty cool that this got picked up in the Stinquirer. Glad to see that Santorum is still in there swinging.


7 posted on 04/09/2009 9:01:43 AM PDT by Antoninus (Now accepting apologies from repentant Mittens.)
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To: RobinMasters

I hope Rick Santorum runs again in PA for the next Senate race. I would vote for him if I lived in PA.


8 posted on 04/09/2009 9:12:00 AM PDT by kevinm13 (Tim Geithner is a tax cheat. Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Whoa! Rick Santorum in the Inquirer! Awesome!
9 posted on 04/09/2009 9:18:14 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("He alone who owns the youth owns the future." - Adolph Hitler)
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To: Travis McGee

The excerpt reads well.


10 posted on 04/09/2009 9:21:11 AM PDT by junta (Not even respectable mainstream conservatives can save liberalism.)
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To: chippewaman
BO can do whatever I don’t care. He will be gone in 2012.

Don't be so sure of that. The Dems are solidifying their stranglehold on power in every way they can. The country we once knew and loved may be gone by 2012.

Besides, Mr. Obama can and will do a lot of damage in four short years. Look at what he's already done in two months!

11 posted on 04/09/2009 9:24:45 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: henkster
“Every day that passes I can’t believe the American people elected this regime.”

That is just it No American Voted for Him Hell he is not even a American.

12 posted on 04/09/2009 9:38:48 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Osamabama Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: RobinMasters

The comments there were quite revealing. It is frightening to see so many Americans who are willing to submit to foreign control over our sovereignty and laws.

Reading those comments, I was struck at how well the liberal educational establishment has destroyed our historical knowledge.


13 posted on 04/09/2009 9:41:01 AM PDT by Jvette
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To: RobinMasters
And still a huge group of Americans still consider this cult leader, King Obama, as their anointed one to save America. What fools!
14 posted on 04/09/2009 9:45:38 AM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: RobinMasters
Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions

The Rickster is a bit slow on the up take.

15 posted on 04/09/2009 10:04:10 AM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: RobinMasters

Hasn’t Koh committed TREASON in the Constitutional sense?

At the least, he, like 0bama is a TRAITOR to the United States.


16 posted on 04/09/2009 11:19:28 AM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (The Constitution & Bill of Rights stand as a whole. Remove any part & nullify the whole.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

At this stage, I’m keeping the rights and the control. Net 50% means each book sale is worth 7 books at 7% royalty. Now I’m at the breakout point, and I’m getting offers, but I want to keep control for a few more months while my new book comes out.


17 posted on 04/09/2009 7:20:57 PM PDT by Travis McGee ("Foreign Enemies And Traitors" has gone to the printer.)
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