Posted on 02/01/2010 3:33:44 AM PST by Scanian
Senate Democrats, taking a cue from President Obama, are ripping into Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for his understandable (and understated) display of disagreement with the president's misrepresentation of a recent court decision.
During last week's State of the Union Address, recall, Obama launched into an unpresidential attack on the court's upending of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance act.
Obama incorrectly claimed the ruling -- in which Alito joined the 5-4 majority -- would permit foreign corporate campaign contributions in US elections.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Is anyone surprised? The only thing that the scum haven’t done yet, is accuse Alito of being racially motivated.
You stay classy, Dems.
Well, it might be possible for a US corporation to become a conduit of foreign influence. There aren’t any laws saying that a US corporation has to be wholly or even largely under control of US citizens, and its owners can be expected to speak in their self interest.
But when did Bummer start caring about that anyhow?
Barack is a liar. He may even be an ignorant, deluded liar.
That is a winning plan for the Democrats. Now it is Bush AND Alito’s fault that they are unemployed.
Here's the thing: I honestly don't believe that he thinks he's lying! I think he firmly believes in everything he says. He has to, because people are generally smart enough to read someone when they're lying. In this case, I believe that our President is being controlled in his speech and policies by globalists who are bent on tearing down everything America stands for. Barack is just along for the ride. He's fed information from his "sources," but in general he sleeps in the WH, wines and dines his wife on taxpayer money, wastes resources flying around the country to campaign for Dems, and the list goes on.
Barack Hussein Obama is the model Manchurian Candidate, and his beliefs are only as strong as the puppetmasters allow them to be.
When his lie is exposed who will he blame; Bush or his speech writer?
RedNeck has a point:
“Well, it might be possible for a US corporation to become a conduit of foreign influence.”
Before the election goes into full swing, we conservatives need to get this right.
I don’t know the specifics myself on their ruling. But it seems to me that where the corporation invests would be a strong indicator of its interests.
I found this:
http://www.allbusiness.com/government/elections-politics-campaigns/13824764-1.html
[Zero’s state-of-disunion rant] was a step too far. At the moment, foreign corporations may not spend any money in U.S. elections under a provision of federal election law that was untouched by the high court.
The court’s majority opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy specifically left for another day “whether the government has a compelling interest in preventing foreign individuals or associations from influencing our nation’s political process.”
But Justice John Paul Stevens said in his dissenting opinion that the reasoning underlying the ruling “would appear to afford the same protection to multinational corporations controlled by foreigners as to individual Americans.”
The more complicated question is how to treat U.S. subsidiaries of foreign companies or American corporations that are controlled by foreign investors. [snip]
The article goes on. It appears to me that the McCain/Feingold was ruled unconstitutional [rightly so] and that so much legislation has been tied in the convoluted mess that the only way to prevent foreign influence is to draft CONSTITUTIONAL law.
Whiny rats are trying to blame the Supreme Court for the current confusing mess.
It appears that truth is no longer an adequate defense.
Actually, I don’t believe that Obama even parses the words he speaks when they appear on TOTUS.
He doesn’t THINK he’s telling the truth or a lie. He just doesn’t think.
“When his lie is exposed who will he blame; Bush or his speech writer?”
He’ll fudge, backpedal and blame you and me for not getting it.
Perfect synopsis. Thank you for summing up what I was thinking!
Has he ever admitted, or has anyone ever implied, that his words are not his own?
No, he’s too arrogant and narcissistic to admit that.
Would companies like Chrysler, Citgo, Citigroup, Newscorp, Anheuser-Busch, Holiday Inn, Shell Oil, T-Mobile, or Nestle be allowed to contribute to campaigns in U.S. elections?
I wish he had stood up and walked out of the speech.
Only when he started to consider that an opponent might attract more foreign money than he has.
Obama is a community organizer, which is just a watered phrase for community agitator. Everything he says and everything he does is designed to pander to and inflame the passions of idiots who can’t tell his lies from the truth.
Obama doesn’t care that we know he’s lying: we’re not his audience. His audience is the ACORN/SEIU/Community organization axis of evil that wants what hard-working Americans produce: their income. Every word he speaks is gauged to appease and inflame these losers because - at the bottom of it all - he is one.
Americans still don't believe that the whole Obama presentation is a con, that it's part of a plan to destroy America from within.
The Dems fight oil drilling for decades (if you think this is for the environment you are beyond stupid)
The Dems want to spend every dime the country will make for decades, just borrow
The idiot wants to address college football rules instead of 10% unemployement
The idiot wants to build a fast train system built on money we don't have
The idiot wants to destroy health care to save money
I don't think these idiots could be that stupid, they are destroying America on purpose.
The democrats are proving themselves to be clueless and classless. I, however, am loving this. I get to razz the libs at work and they all just slink away. Out here in the REAL world people recognized that BamBams attack was unprecidented, uncalled for, and ultimately WRONG in both motivation and fact.
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