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Dershowitz: Undemocratic Tactics and Bigoted Arguments Have Stifled Iran Nuclear Deal Debate
Algemeiner ^ | September 11, 2015 | Alan Dershowitz

Posted on 09/11/2015 4:37:53 PM PDT by SJackson

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1 posted on 09/11/2015 4:37:53 PM PDT by SJackson
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Nice piece, but you voted for him Alan.


2 posted on 09/11/2015 4:40:45 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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We regarded the filibuster as the enemy of democracy and the weapon of choice against civil rights.

I don't agree that the filibuster is an enemy of democracy, though the currently allowed fake ones are. Get up there and talk for a day.

Weapon of choice against civil rights, yes. A Democrat weapon against civil rights. A Democrat weapon against Israel.

3 posted on 09/11/2015 4:41:06 PM PDT by SJackson (Everybody has a plan until they get hit. Mike Tyson)
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He’s a dictator with no love or regard for the US. I HATE him.

We KNOW he would LOVE to see a nuke go off in NYC.

I Never thought I would say that about a US pResident.


4 posted on 09/11/2015 4:43:47 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: VTenigma

Ditto


5 posted on 09/11/2015 4:43:49 PM PDT by BigEdLB
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I’m not suggesting that’s OK, clearly Alan’s assessment of the President was wrong. At least on some issues. But I’m OK with people changing their mind, particularly when accompanied by a coherent argument. Don’t know about Alan, but plenty of people in his position would vote for him again, there being other more important issues than nuclear arms in the hands of terrorists.


6 posted on 09/11/2015 4:44:13 PM PDT by SJackson (Everybody has a plan until they get hit. Mike Tyson)
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7 posted on 09/11/2015 4:47:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Exactly what I thought about Jimmy Stewart in Mr Deeds Goes To Washington. A bigoted filibuster speech about the boys club.


8 posted on 09/11/2015 4:50:52 PM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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Its a little too late for that Professor. If anybody knew about the left and race baiting it should have been you. Johnny Cochrane is probably smiling in his grave.

If the liberal cause fits, you must submit!
9 posted on 09/11/2015 4:54:55 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: VTenigma

It’s all the better that he voted for him, in a way. He’ll be a convert, and they (we) see most clearly.


10 posted on 09/11/2015 4:55:36 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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The President had an obligation to use his bully pulpit to try to obtain majority support among voters.

He just didn't care. A crammed down back room deal was easier than going through the effort of attempting to persuade the public. Heaven forbid that some lame going through the motions "public debate" was attempted.

11 posted on 09/11/2015 4:56:46 PM PDT by glorgau
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12 posted on 09/11/2015 4:57:00 PM PDT by nascarnation (C. Edmund Wright says I'm a moron)
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Dershowitz: Yet, President Obama and his followers in the senate deployed this undemocratic weapon in order to stifle real debate about the nuclear deal with Iran and to prevent the up or down vote promised by the Corker bill.
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Does ANYONE here at FR or any Senator or Congressman or McConnell or Boehner not realize that the Dem threat to filibuster the “up or down vote promised by the Corker bill” guaranteed an Obama victory?

Filibuster was always an option. There was never a doubt that the filibuster threat would be used. There was never ANY POSSIBILITY that the GOP could get the 60 votes to override the Dems and force a vote. And even if they could there is no chance that the votes would be there to override an Obama veto.

Corker is a joke, doomed from the get-go to generate show-votes. In all other regards it was designed to fail.

I’m really tired of this.


13 posted on 09/11/2015 4:58:12 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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you know that Dershowitz has been out front opposing this deal for a while - felt so strongly he even wrote a book outlining his arguments. he’s right on this one and is man enough to take on the prez - which a lot of others failed to do.


14 posted on 09/11/2015 4:59:25 PM PDT by avital2
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To: Kid Shelleen

you know that Dershowitz has been out front opposing this deal for a while - felt so strongly he even wrote a book outlining his arguments. he’s right on this one and is man enough to take on the prez - which a lot of others failed to do.


15 posted on 09/11/2015 4:59:25 PM PDT by avital2
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The ends justify the means. You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet....


16 posted on 09/11/2015 5:02:24 PM PDT by windsorknot
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Moreover, opposition to this deal is considerably greater among evangelical Christians than among Jews.

Jesus taught that a lot of Jews claiming to be Jews are not Jews.

17 posted on 09/11/2015 5:08:34 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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"….those who support the deal should be ashamed of some of the undemocratic tactics and bigoted arguments employed to avoid a real debate and a majority vote."

Applies to pretty much every "accomplishment" from the hussein administration.

18 posted on 09/11/2015 5:14:08 PM PDT by moehoward
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Who the hell is Senator “Strom Thurman”?


19 posted on 09/11/2015 5:14:41 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: avital2
My point is that since he has been surrounded by leftys and radicals his whole life maybe he should have not supported Obama for presidency TWICE.

20 posted on 09/11/2015 5:16:41 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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