America needs a 2nd Bill of Rights--Rep. Kaptur (D-Ohio)

Toledo Blade ^ | October 14, 2008 | TOM TROY

[rvoitier]

U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D. Toledo) whipped the crowd up before Mr. Obama took the stage yesterday telling them that America needed a Second Bill of Rights guaranteeing all Americans a job, health care, homes, an education, and a fair playing field for business and farmers.

Whatch out when the government tells you they want to be "fair."

[rvoitier]

Comments are the last paragraph.

Video at link, too.

h/t Mark Steyn-NRO Corner

[wk4bush2004]

And people say that Obama isn’t a socialist...

[frankiep]

Sometimes it feels like we are witnessing a combination of Russia in 1917 and Germany in 1933. What in the hell is wrong with these people?

[Loyolas Mattman]

Marcy should beware. There is a certain plumber who is quite interested in taking her job...

[Maelstorm]

Looks like communism to me. I’ll go to war before they do that to this country.

[MD_Willington_1976]

Here’s one already written up they can use...

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/1936toc.html

What a bunch of IDIOTS!!

[andy58-in-nh]

Theft is not a right.

[Faith]

That's a lot of press for a simple campaign stop.

Joe the Plumber is talking about running against Marcie Kaptur for the House. It would make a great contest.

[freespirited]

U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D. Toledo) whipped the crowd up before Mr. Obama took the stage yesterday telling them that America needed a Second Bill of Rights guaranteeing all Americans a job, health care, homes, an education, and a fair playing field for business and farmers.

We really need Joe the Plumber to run against this airhead in 2010.

[justlurking]

The Bill of Rights is an enumeration of some of the limitations on the powers of the federal government -- and on the states, by extension of the 14th Amendment.

Jobs, homes, health care, education, etc. are entitlements, not rights. The best way to distinguish between rights and entitlements: if you must take something away from someone else in order to have it, it's not a right.

[JamesP81]

We do need a Constitutional convention. But not to put in the kind of stuff this clown is talking about.

[lonevoice]

A new Bill of Rights guaranteeing the right to steal

[KarlInOhio]

Will they repeal the 13th amendment to force people like me to fulfill these new "rights", or is the 16th amendment still sufficient?

[johnthebaptistmoore]

So, Joe the Plumber will be running against her in ‘10, that is, if they even have elections in ‘10 after the “political left”, in complete power, changes everything.

[enough_idiocy]

This is unbelievable. The Bill of Rights was enacted to protect individuals from government encroachment. This proposed bill of right will erode individual liberty, not protect it. Government will take from some and provide to others.

A right to healthcare? Who has a right to someone else's services to be paid for by someone else? This is unreal.

The problem is that because public education has sunk so low and is dominated by liberal pedagogy, America's citizens do not understand what the hell is going on, what monumental change this is.

(higher education too for that matter when you consider how poorly the Ivy leagues’ and other schools’ students test on basic US gov’t principles)

[Mygirlsmom]

Theft is not a right....Not yet.

[enough_idiocy]

The question is what’s wrong with the American public for allowing these people to be taken seriously?

[bpjam]

DITTO.

[mlocher]

Next, we will be told that the Gov’t needs to offer another altar that we can go to pay our sacrifices.

[frankiep]

My guess would be selfishness with a healthy dose of materialism and a side order of ignorance of history.