Obama and the Law
Posted on 10/28/2008 1:06:59 PM PDT by jazusamo
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Obama and the Law
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Polls and Pols
Believers in Obama
Negative Advertising
The Real Obama: Part IV
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The Real Obama: Part II
The Real Obama
Do Facts Matter?
Idols of Crowds
Changes in Politics
Whose “Special Interests”?
The Galbraith Effect
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Are Facts Obsolete?
Conservatives for Obama?
Cocky Ignorance
Obama and McCain
Irrelevant Apologies
Success Built on Work Ethic
An Old Newness
A Living Lie
Obama’s Speech
Race and Politics
Non-Judgmental Nonsense
In my more perverse moments I want Obama to win. Watching him utterly decompose into a pile of rags and self-pity for four years would be marvelously gratifying.
Now there's a thought I've not seen articulated.
Unfortunately, he will bring down the Country first.
Yes, and I doubt he’s far off the mark.
This is what I do not understand. We have the evidence right in front of us that SOCIALISM and COMMUNISM do NOT work! As other countries are moving away from it, the U.S. is moving TOWARD it? Are we blind or stupid?
Here is where I differ with Mr. Sowell. A weak and feckless president, as Obama would undoubtedly be, would be more, not less likely to launch a pre-emptive or (God forbid) retaliatory nuclear strike on Iran. President Obama would have been backed into a very tight corner by the time this hypothetical came to pass.
Politically he'd be in real trouble -- a nuclear Iran would treat him at far more shamefully than they treated Jimmy Carter. Even Obama could not fail to see the need for action -- though it would be far too late for the sort of action that would have prevented all-out war.
His only option would be to lash out ... and the consequences would, of course, be ugly.
Sowell just totally destroys Obama in this piece!! I mean- he always destroys Obama, but he really nuked him with this one!
I've posted several times that if Obama is elected, in 10 years, we ARE France. Maybe sooner.
There are many that are blind and stupid, hopefully they’re in the minority.
I’m thinking Obama would “negotiate” surrender.
He has done his very best. We need to do our very best. We owe it to ourselves, our nation, and our posterity.
Congressman Billybob
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Very well said, John and dead on the mark.
Quite possible ... as a foreign policy president he would far out-Carter Carter.
Still, I see a lot of Bill Clinton in him, too -- even more than the ideology, I think he's driven by a tremendous narcissism. The political consequences of a "negotiated surrender" would be obvious to all, and they would be utterly ruinous to his "legacy."
That's why I believe that, after a long period of unsuccessful appeasement, and perhaps a military disaster or two, he'd end up calling in a nuke strike.
It depends on the meaning of "working." They "work" just fine in terms of giving a certain group of elites power and control over other groups, which is what I believe the goal for the American Left/Obama is (NOT, as they purport, a successful, well-off, healthy economy/country/society). For them, it is purely about Being In Charge. As for that successful, well-off stuff, there are many leftists who simply think the other attempts at socialism/communism weren't "done right" and that's why they failed, not because the philosophy itself is flawed.
Both I fear.
Yep, but as demostarted by the Russians, the intervening cost in human lives can be in the high millions.
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