The Lawless President
Riding roughshod over the law of the land seems to be the price Obama is willing to pay for "change."
Candidate Barack Obama promised “change,” but few suspected one of the biggest changes would be an unparalleled attack on the rule of law orchestrated from the Oval Office. It is, to say the least, an ironic turn of events for a president who fancies himself a constitutional scholar and who rode into office excoriating George W. Bush for “shredding” the rule of law.
We saw this on full display last week as Obama disingenuously promised a “quick” bankruptcy of Chrysler and vilified the car company’s creditors as “speculators.” As a Financial Times columnist explained:
For once, the law is unambiguous: senior secured creditors should be paid before junior unsecured creditors and employees (the words “senior” and “junior” are a bit of a give-away on this point). By turning legal wisdom on its head — and vilifying investors that opposed the move — the administration is signaling the principle is no longer sacred.
While that, in itself, will not cause a massive capital flight away from the U.S., it will have some serious repercussions.
Fund managers and hedge funds are already reluctant to participate in the authorities’ plans to rid banks of toxic assets for fear of government retribution on pay. The Chrysler “cram-down” of lenders is hardly going to fill them with confidence. …
The government has a real problem here. Call it the “paradox of the official bailer-outer”: the authorities’ position as rescuer-in-chief forces them to take an active role in the private sector, yet their goals (saving jobs, getting re-elected etc) conflict with the smooth running of the very markets they are trying to preserve.
This, of course, is not the only instance in which the administration and its allies have tried to eviscerate property rights. The AIG bonus debacle was a shabby display of government-by-mob rule. While the president later thought the better of it, his first reaction was to gin up some anger against the AIG executives who had a legal right to their bonuses — and whose contract rights had been protected (they thought) by congressional action instigated at the behest of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. So much for the sanctity of contracts.
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108 Comments
1. Marsha:All hail Lord Obama.
May 4, 2009 - 2:22 am 2. Typewriter_King:Immediately after the New York City flyby, I considered that this presidency echoed a certain episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
In the episode, Picard ordered a number of harmless irrational commands to the crew, until in the end they mutinied at his demand they fly the Enterprise into the core of a star.
It was a Milgram-type experiment by Q, I think, to determine just how much mankind had changed since the Eugenics Wars.
Anyway, we saw all the Soviet apitprop styled iconography during the campaign, so we knew the majority were willing to follow at least as far as Soviets obeyed Stalin. However, I doubt even the condemned in the gulag who cried at Stalin’s death would have flown their star ship into the sun, or fly through Manhattan like that less than a decade after the attacks.
And now, after flying into the sun, all and sundry pay no mind to our elected Picard illegally releasing terror camp graduates into the United States on the public dole.
May 4, 2009 - 3:11 am 3. Spinoneone:Hell, you just don’t get it. Kings are NOT subject to the law, just the plebes are.
May 4, 2009 - 3:25 am 4. Spinoneone:Oh, and further on #2 above: Kings WRITE the law when and how it suits them. “Change” happens whenever the king wants it to. You don’t like that? See that dungeon over there? As far as the press is concerned, “sit, Fido.”
May 4, 2009 - 3:27 am 5. Bob:It’s not a good omen for the rule of law when the President’s no. 1 quality to look for in a new Supreme Court Justice is “empathy.” The President himself has little empathy for the Chrysler bond holders, who were not willing to be talked out of the deal they made when they bought their bonds. The conservative pundits said last fall that putting billions into the car companies would only delay their inevitable bankruptcies. Bush, Obama and most of the rest of Washington signed on to the deal that has now made American taxpayers into auto company bankruptcy creditors.
May 4, 2009 - 3:43 am 6. Formwiz:As Paul Harvey used to say, “This is Chicago”.
May 4, 2009 - 4:11 am 7. Carl:It is clear that Obama cuts no favors to any person for any reason at any time.
One good thing about it is that the creeps that elected the egomaniac are going down with the rest of us.
And, in my mind they cannot be made to suffer enough.
May 4, 2009 - 4:17 am 8. Mike2:5. Bob:
You hit the nail on the head. The fact that Obama graduated from Harvard Law School and can say things like that tells a lot about the quality of the education one gets there. But it’s not like we didn’t know what he thinks of the law. He has been making statements like that for years now.
May 4, 2009 - 4:43 am 9. BPT (Australia):I preferred the other cowboy president.
May 4, 2009 - 4:56 am 10. Paul -Indiana:Are you still glad that you voted for Obama?
May 4, 2009 - 5:00 am 11. Old Soldier:Every time I read the national news it should be to the tune of “The World Turned Upside Down.” Buying Chrysler bonds (BONDS!) qualifies you as a greed-crazed “speculator.” Never mind that the administration is full of Goldman millionaires.
Objecting to 30 cents on the dollar of secured debt in a corporate bankruptcy makes THE PRESIDENT of the United States angry?! I assume this is because he is trying rip-off debt and stock-holders so he can hand the company over to the government and his union allies. Insanity.
Tell me again, George Bush, why you threw GM and Chrysler the lifelines that wasted tens of billions of taxpayer dollars and allowed them to limp into the Obama Administration? How much better would a Chrysler bankruptcy been last November been for all involved, except the UAW?
May 4, 2009 - 5:00 am 12. chris in Toronto:“The ends justify the means.”
May 4, 2009 - 5:03 am 13. RunningDogLackey:I’m sure things would be a lot better now, had we elected Capt. Crash and Wolf Girl, instead of the guy most Americans wanted.
May 4, 2009 - 5:19 am 14. HardHeadedWoman:He’s certainly wearing the right color hat in that picture.
May 4, 2009 - 5:36 am 15. David Thomson:“The fact that Obama graduated from Harvard Law School and can say things like that tells a lot about the quality of the education one gets there.”
Harvard University’s hard science departments are among the very best in the world. Barack Obama, however, “earned” a liberal arts degree. He is a shallow and poorly read man. Obama can pass a state bar exam—but that’s about it. Harvard is for the most part an intellectual whorehouse. We should treat the liberal arts graduates from all of our so-called schools of higher learning as idiots until proven otherwise. Their degrees are often phonier than a three dollar bill. And this may be especially true if the individual is member of a “minority community.”
May 4, 2009 - 5:53 am 16. Terry Gain:I’m sure things would be a lot better now, had we elected Capt. Crash and Wolf Girl, instead of the guy most Americans wanted.
“An Obomaton weighs in. He tries to deflect attention from these serious criticisms of Obama by offering a snarky unsubstantiated attack on a war hero and a self made patriot of real accomplishment, as if women who can raise 5 children and govern a state grow on trees.
Most Americans don’t want an attack on the rule of law or an economy that won’t recover because of these attacks. Deal with this man’s policy defects dodo.
May 4, 2009 - 6:21 am 17. D-wah:He didn’t “graduate” from Harvard Law–he got his cover there. We all know his true Alma Mater is 20 years in the School of Subversion.
Exactly, old soldier. Reversals to make our heads spin while he keeps shoving.
I’ll never forget his comment on Leno, telling kids NOT to get into finance, but take careers as teachers and scientists. It was shocking for a so-called President to be telling people what careers to take–and NOT to take! But that’s his approach–get finance out of the public sector, period! That’s the governement’s job–then THEY’LL take care of us. “We really shouldn’t have that kind of selfish independence–tsk tsk. Greedy little clingy, backwards Americans…”
Just more evidence of where this guy’s head’s at–societal reconstruction. Oh, yeah, “change you can believe in”, I forgot the mantra.
Should read, “Change–YOU WON”T BELIEVE IT!”
May 4, 2009 - 6:32 am 18. AThinkingPerson:Re: #13 RunningDogLackey: What, no comments to refute the articles claim about TeleBama? Typical Liberal blather. “Let’s not look at TeleBama, let’s look everywhere else.” Sorry bub, that doesn’t wash anymore. The buck stops with your party now. Now, if you truly give a damn about the US, let’s hear your argument that TeleBama DOES have the best interest of the US in mind (if you can that is).
As for the article, we can only hope that there are at least a few Democrats left in Washington with some semblance of a conscious left. With TeleBama now getting his claws into the Supreme Court and at least being honest for once about his seedy plans to put someone in that will legislate from the bench (God help us all), we should all now have our blinders off. We are under the rule of an oppressive administration led by a President that puts American rights beneath the rest of the world and puts the minority interests above the majority.
May 4, 2009 - 6:39 am 19. micky:Obama is a egomaniacal thug. He gets his way by threatening others, as shown with the hedge fund example in the Chrysler bankruptcy case. What happened to the Freddie Mac exec? Was it really suicide? Recently a 44 year old female NBC executive dropped dead on a stage set. I would wonder about that as well, considering that NBC is part of the GE propaganda machine. (GE will profit greatly from “green” technology, has dealings in the financial sector, and, of course, sells costly health information technology such as the Centricity software used by hospitals-Obama is really pushing this) I would put nothing past this evil man who thinks he is above the law.
May 4, 2009 - 6:43 am 20. D-wah:PS–isn’t Washington FULL of lawyers? What aren’t they going after him for brazenly trampling what they’re supposedly there to uphold????? Spineless hypocrites–cowering weasels looking for a hole of a job to hide in thru the transition to the Socialist States of America. Idiots–they get expunged anyway. Don’t they read history?
May 4, 2009 - 6:43 am 21. alacom:I keep thinking about Henry 11 of England.
May 4, 2009 - 6:47 am 22. JohnnyL:If you are deemed to be one of the greedy class, you know longer have property rights…unless you work for Goldman Sachs or one of the other insider firms. This is reminding me more and more of when the former Soviet Union started to divide the nationalized companies up and handed then over to what later became the “oligarchs”. If you are politically favored then you will come out with a sweet deal like the auto unions. Apparently they are not making any sacrifices.
May 4, 2009 - 6:48 am 23. D-wah:I love how these plants name themselves. Runningdoglackey. Perfect. Yesterday there was a Not Bob 2, and this upset dude (I assume) Sheesh. Ha! (I’m pretty new on the scene so I’m sure there’s tons more funny examples) Try to ignore ‘em–although as is evident, they do provide “teachable moments” when the light of truth hit’s ‘em. Notice they’re always acerbic, embittered and frustrated. They can’t tell righteous indignation from indiscriminate anger, so they think our points are as mindless as theirs. Pray for ‘em.
You just can’t explain another dimension if someone hasn’t seen it for themselves, but it can still happen for them–instead, the darkness just fights the light. Ah, life. Fight on, brothers….:D
May 4, 2009 - 6:53 am 24. Meryl:“Never before have we seen such untrammeled disregard both for property rights and existing legal mechanisms.”
The first time I referenced the danger to property rights (in conversation with my family) with regard to The Won was about in October, as I recall. And I assure you, I’m just a housewife in rural Minnesota. I was basing my conclusion on what he was SAYING.
I wasn’t guessing at it. I wasn’t using a 4 year education as some great university to deduce it. I didn’t think then, and I don’t think now that that recognition makes me a particularly smart person.
I believed then and I believe now that anyone who has publicly flayed the Constitution and verbally expressed disdain for the Bill of Rights (as it applies to American citizens in general, not just his group in particular) would, sooner or later, get to “the problem of property rights”.
You see (or perhaps you don’t?), every single provision in the Bill of Rights is eventually an obstacle to the Will of the Left, and will essentially be dealt with as such by an idealogue.
This was completely predictable. The baldfaced boldness of it and the speed of its development somewhat surprises and absolutely frightens me. The essence of it does not surprise me one bit.
May 4, 2009 - 6:55 am 25. AlanJW:#15 – Truly, speaking truth to power!
May 4, 2009 - 6:57 am 26. BettyBlue:RunningDogLackey (most appropriate name!) If you want to agree with you, tell us why we should support Obama, and what he’s doing right.
It’s his administration now. He won. Not McCain and Palin. Alternative histories are fun for Science fiction, but they’re meaningless in politics.
May 4, 2009 - 6:57 am 27. Meryl:we elected “the guy most Americans wanted”
RunningDogLackey, that is a false statement.
Gotta say I do like your name, though.
May 4, 2009 - 6:59 am 28. Pastor of Muppets:David Thomson: ““The fact that Obama graduated from Harvard Law School and can say things like that tells a lot about the quality of the education one gets there.”
Harvard University’s hard science departments are among the very best in the world. Barack Obama, however, “earned” a liberal arts degree. He is a shallow and poorly read man. Obama can pass a state bar exam—but that’s about it. Harvard is for the most part an intellectual whorehouse. We should treat the liberal arts graduates from all of our so-called schools of higher learning as idiots until proven otherwise.”
Sounds like somebody didn’t get into Harvard Law. Oh well, not all of us can be as intelligent or as well read as our President.
David Thomson: “And this may be especially true if the individual is member of a “minority community.”
Affirmative action continues to be a necessary mechanism because racists and bigots like yourself inherently believe that a degree earned by a minority is suspect and is not worth as much as a white person’s degree.
May 4, 2009 - 7:05 am 29. D-wah:Ha! Meryl–back at RDLacking–we elected “America’s Most Wanted!” Ha!!
May 4, 2009 - 7:10 am 30. Pastor of Muppets:Terry Gain: “Most Americans don’t want an attack on the rule of law or an economy that won’t recover because of these attacks. Deal with this man’s policy defects dodo.”
But you don’t speak for most Americans. You only speak for a very small fringe of reactionary right wing Americans who have been easily manipulated by racist talk radio hosts and backwater politicians into hating everything that conflicts with your narrow and bigoted worldview.
Most Americans do agree with the President, which is why he currently has a 70% approval rating.
May 4, 2009 - 7:11 am 31. sheesh:27 Meryl,
OK, we elected the guy most Americans voted for (whether he’s who most Americans wanted can’t be claimed NOR disputed). I’m confident you’ll be left with that same sliver of impact over the next four years. Feel better?
May 4, 2009 - 7:11 am 32. tanstaafl:The rule of law seems to be taking it up the Wazoo.
If Schumer indignantly finds supporting contract law such an outrage, I wonder how old Chuckie would feel if his own creditors unilaterally invalidated his own mortgage agreement or any other contractual agreement he’d entered into ?
Maybe the turn happened when a sitting President perjured himself under Oath. Or, more gradually, when a whole cadre of federal officials (Mark Steyn wrote we shouldn’t call it a federal government but a national government…individual state powers seem to be becoming eroded as well) chose to smarmingly not enforce immigration law.
Nobody seems there to stop this administration’s assault on the rule of law and to impose Constitutional limits on the exercise of power.
there’s no there there
May 4, 2009 - 7:11 am 33. savage24:I can never understand the term “constitutional scholar” . I’ve read the constitution and it does not take a rocket scientist to understand what it says. It is written in plain easy to read English and should be understood by all who can read . The politicians and lawyers have been bastardizing it for their own benefits for years, but that doesn’t change the true meaning of it. I don’t believe Obama has ever read it. How can you take an oath of office that states to uphold and protect, if you do not know what it says?
May 4, 2009 - 7:21 am 34. tanstaafl:It was shocking for a so-called President to be telling people what careers to take–and NOT to take!
Try this on for size in today’s “news”. The jobs “we” (Obama) wants you to be in.
Obama said in an interview in this week’s New York Times Magazine “That means that more talent, more resources will be going to other sectors of the economy,” he said. “I actually think that’s healthy. We don’t want every single college grad with mathematical aptitude to become a derivatives trader. We want some of them to go into engineering, and we want some of them to be going into computer design.”
Obama: Wall Street will play less dominant role
May 4, 2009 - 7:25 am 35. SShiell:“How can you take an oath of office that states to uphold and protect, if you do not know what it says?”
I don’t know – butr it seems to be true of every Democrat currently holding Congressional or Senatorial office! They don’t know either!
May 4, 2009 - 7:33 am 36. D-wah:MOP 30–You really don’t get us, do you? You consider yourself a fringie? You think you’re a mainstream speak-for-the-people kinda guy, don’t you? When you try to foist these ugly thoughtless provokative Garafolo-type labels on us it’s called marginalizing. Thuggery. It’s all over your side’s self-righteous pushy politics.
We take your ideological threat seriously, and attack it with ideas; constructive, well based, rational ones. Your broad brush lashings are evidence of something out of balance. Get a “check up from the neck up”, chill out, and let people live their lives as they want. This “innate gift” (arrogance) you think you have of feeling you have to legislate people’s lives because you know better than they do is the birthseed of facism. Back off. And that’s the same message we have for Obambam–”back off!”
May 4, 2009 - 7:35 am 37. Mike T:Rubbish. FDR still has Obama beat hands down for disregard for the rule of law. FDR was a president who was willing to destroy the Supreme Court as an institution of government in order to get his will done.
May 4, 2009 - 7:39 am 38. tanstaafl:…get to “the problem of property rights”.
And that was really gotten to (big time) in the Kelo decision, where the Supreme Court upheld the right of a municipality (?) to seize an individual’s private property, with the rationale that the planned development would be of more value to the community instead of some silly rights of private property.
Ironically enough, that property has sat barren and undeveloped since Suzanne Kelo was tossed out of her home, and that ruling (or was so about a year ago), nobody, it seems, has the money/resources/plan whatever to “develop” it.
I can never understand the term “constitutional scholar” . I’ve read the constitution and it does not take a rocket scientist to understand what it says.
I’ve thought this many times, pretty straightforward stuff, eh wot ? In same vein, Islamic scholars, geez, 14 centuries of complete BS.
May 4, 2009 - 7:40 am 39. AThinkingPerson:Anyone else not surprised that TeleBama is now being accused of using bully tactics against investment firms who opposed his auto bankruptcy deal and threatening to use the White House media against them? Yet more Chicago political tactics coming to the surface. He’s not even been in office a year yet and he’s already strong arming?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/05/bankruptcy-atto.html
May 4, 2009 - 7:44 am 40. D-wah:Mike T–give him time, like the press is telling us to do with the wonderful young man (*%&$). But check out the Speed he’s going vs FDR. 100 days in a maze of haze–and counting!–”you ain’t seen nuttin’ yet”. I’m telling you, this guy’s vehicle has NO BRAKES! Pedal to the metal and if the car crashes, all the better. Chaos all the sooner. God help us.
May 4, 2009 - 7:45 am 41. Zhombre:After years of bleeding Detroit the auto worker unions are now in a position to bleed U.S. taxpayers. And, to borrow a lyric from that corny old musical, the future may belong to neo-fascists like Pastor of Muppets.
May 4, 2009 - 7:48 am 42. Old Soldier:SShiell: If you have no honor, an oath is meaningless.
May 4, 2009 - 7:51 am 43. sheesh:Hey! Great news! Jeb Bush is back to lead Republicans out of the wilderness! I think between Jeb and Mitt and Newt and Dick and, of course, Rush we’ll be able to show a completely new energy and commitment to progress in America. Oh, it’s such a relief to have solved the”leadership issue” of the GOP. I’ll be honest, I was a teensie weensie bit worried about conservatives being able to mount a credible return to relevance. I think we can all agree that we made a mistake or two over the last few years. (OK, maybe just one, but I can’t recall what it was right now.) But none of that matters now because we have everything we need to break through all the false impressions of Republicans and convince all voters – old and older, white and whiter, male and maler – that we’re a big tent party built for the future. Whew! Dodged a bullet there!
May 4, 2009 - 7:52 am 44. AThinkingPerson:#41 Zhombre: I won’t be feeding the union animal/Liberal agenda/Socialist takeover. I will never purchase a Union made vehicle ever again. By the looks of their sales lately, I’m not alone in this pursuit. TeleBama might have gifted the Union with an auto company, but until he sends out ACORN with their official TeleBama uniforms on and guns drawn, they can’t make me buy them.
May 4, 2009 - 7:57 am 45. tanstaafl:Does sheesh think his repeated forays into side rants are relevant to something real in the universe ?
May 4, 2009 - 7:58 am 46. Retep:#28 Paster of Muppets
May 4, 2009 - 8:01 am 47. AThinkingPerson:“Sounds like somebody didn’t get into Harvard Law. Oh well, not all of us can be as intelligent or as well read as our President.”
OK talk’s cheap. Now prove it. Give us three examples that prove BO is intelligent.
#43 Sheesh: You’d be well served to keep your opinions on the Republican agenda for another article and concentrate on the current hot mess you’ve elected for us. Why never a comment on the tragedy that is the TeleBama administration? Funny how it’s always distraction with you have nothing of importance to contribute.
By the way ….. I LOVE JEB BUSH!! I’d put Jeb Bush up against Joe “Is my foot in my mouth again?” Biden any day! Thanks for some good news in this era of the great American apologist.
May 4, 2009 - 8:01 am 48. Sebastian Shaw:President Obama takes his cues from Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin, Kim Jong Il, & numerous other dictator thugs. The laws are not for the elite, but for the little people. It’s all going to come back & bite him eventually when his so-called “popularity” shatters.
May 4, 2009 - 8:02 am 49. D-wah:42.Old Soldier—amen–the heart–or lack thereof–of the matter. I sometimes feel it’s the Night of the Living Dead and we’re fighting zombies. Truth, honor, justice? Not in their town. The end justifies the means. And so history repeats itself. But good will triumph over evil–but not after the unwitting have learned once again which is which and just how evil evil really is, but it’s usually too late for many.
May 4, 2009 - 8:03 am 50. Carolb:“I’m sure things would be a lot better now, had we elected Capt. Crash and Wolf Girl, instead of the guy most Americans wanted.”
Maybe McSame would have been fine…compared to what we have now, which is McWorse.
May 4, 2009 - 8:04 am 51. sheesh:44 athinkingperson . . . I will never purchase a Union made vehicle ever again
Hey, thanks athinkingperson . . . another plank in the new Republican “family” . . . “Don’t buy American!” I think that one will really catch on. You should forward that one to Jeb.
May 4, 2009 - 8:05 am 52. AThinkingPerson:#51 Sheesh: You didn’t read my comment.
“44. AThinkingPerson:
#41 Zhombre: I won’t be feeding the union animal/Liberal agenda/Socialist takeover. I will never purchase a Union made vehicle ever again. By the looks of their sales lately, I’m not alone in this pursuit. TeleBama might have gifted the Union with an auto company, but until he sends out ACORN with their official TeleBama uniforms on and guns drawn, they can’t make me buy them.”"
That’s what I said. Again, distraction when not having anything to contribute.
May 4, 2009 - 8:14 am 53. sheesh:45. tanstaafl: . . . Does sheesh think his repeated forays into side rants are relevant to something real in the universe ?
You don’t think the desperate re-branding of the GOP courtesy of all the same old rich white guys is relevant to a discussion about the current administration? You know better than that. You’re just bitter because I’m so effective . . . just like talk radio only smarter.
May 4, 2009 - 8:15 am 54. sheesh:47. AThinkingPerson . . . By the way ….. I LOVE JEB BUSH!
Thanks, that’ll be about all we need for the next two elections. Now, you folks spend a lot of time excoriating Michelle Obama for her choice of shoes . . . how you gonna handle Jeb Bush’s wife smuggling jewelry into the country, or his daughter’s multiple drug convictions? Crime at our borders and drug abuse . . . correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t those key issues in the war on liberalism? Let not your heart be troubled . . . You can just put Karl Rove out front to say, “Nuh-uh . . . nuh-uh . . . it’s not us, it’s them!”
Hail Rush, our exalted leader, and Jeb too, his attentive squire – a bold fresh piece of inanity.
Next . . .
May 4, 2009 - 8:22 am 55. tanstaafl:SHEESH
May 4, 2009 - 8:24 am 56. David Thomson:“Affirmative action continues to be a necessary mechanism because racists and bigots like yourself inherently believe that a degree earned by a minority is suspect and is not worth as much as a white person’s degree.”
Why don’t we have affirmative action programs in the world of sports? It is very obvious: the less talented athlete would look like a fool. We also do not have serious affirmative action programs in the hard sciences. It is only in the liberal arts programs where this stuff really dominates. And that’s because everybody knows that most soft science courses are a joke. And indeed, I most certainly do suspect the validity of the degree acquired by a brown or black skinned individual. That is a completely logical response on my part. Many professors have candidly admitted to giving these darker skinned students easier grades. Please note that I also did not add the Asian minorities to my list. That is because they are not deemed by the politically correct establishment to be “real minorities.”
May 4, 2009 - 8:28 am 57. AThinkingPerson:#54 sheesh: So in essence you’re saying you’d much rather bend knee to Janeane Garafolo? Check.
Dear God, do you ever have a relevant thing to say? EVER? Consider this the last time I respond to one of your posts. I always like to give a sheeple several opportunities to at least state their case, but you don’t seem to have one. Flame away sheesh. I’ll enjoy watching you demean yourself.
May 4, 2009 - 8:42 am 58. sheesh:55 . . . staaf infection . . . THAT. WAS. ABSOLUTELY. POSITIVELY. THE. MOST.HILARIOUS. THING. I.HAVE.EVER.SEEN.IN.MY.ENTIRE.LIFE.AND.YOU.CAN.BELIEVE.ME.BECAUSE.I.SAW.SHECKY.GREENE.LIVE.SO.I.KNOW.WHAT’S.FUNNY.AND.THAT.MY.FRIEND.IS.NOT.JUST.FUNNY.BUT SPOT.ON.HILARIOUS.
Once again, the Right illustrates it’s core problem . . . no imagination.
May 4, 2009 - 8:45 am 59. Hotpatch 6:Now that our Community-Organizer-In-Chief has created a Government/Union-run automobile company, we can be assured of the following: 1) They will produce large numbers of “Green” cars that no one will want (or can afford; 2) Endless subsidies will be required to make the cars no one wants (or can afford); 3) There will be constant warnings that “Chrysler is in trouble”; and, 4) It will all be Bush’s fault!
I, for one, will never buy another Chrysler product (at least until it is a private company again).
May 4, 2009 - 9:02 am 60. The Shadow:Sheesh – The other problem is pure dopeyness
May 4, 2009 - 9:03 am 61. BettyBlue:One again, the Left illustrates it’s core problem. Not only do they have no imagination, not only can they not frame intelligent debate—they can’t even type!
(Sheesh, this has nothing to do with Jeb Bush. And. No. One. Cares. That. You. saw. Shecky.)
May 4, 2009 - 9:09 am 62. Delia:11. Old Soldier:
“Every time I read the national news it should be to the tune of ‘The World Turned Upside Down’.”
__Or ‘TAPS’
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Let’s face it, we have ‘Black Bart’ for president now. Who needs those old, dusty, stinkin’ laws? The falling sky is the limit now! Kool-aid, free mortgages and free gas for every black-american/illegal-immigrant/gitmo-detainee! WHOOP WHOOP!
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‘You-know-who’ and his 5 other tranny personalities/monikers need to get back on the prescribed meds or at the very least submit to an exorcism or a month of observation in a rubber room.
May 4, 2009 - 9:11 am 63. Shecky Greene:That Sheesh guy needs to learn how to type better! I mean, run-on sentences that spill off the page?
I know funny alright, and Sheesh is. not. funny.
May 4, 2009 - 9:11 am 64. Porkov:I’m sure we’ll all be better off when the current administration has finished its preemptive autopsy of the goose that used to lay the golden eggs. Everything works better when it is run by the government. And by that, folks, I don’t mean we the people – I mean they, the geniuses we elected because they’re so much better equipped to rule than we are. Republicans just don’t get it – we WANT to be governed by our betters, because governing ourselves is just too much work.
May 4, 2009 - 9:19 am 65. The UnPatriot:64 Porkov.
“…we WANT to be governed by our betters, because governing ourselves is just too much work.”
But, where’s the imagination in that?
–The UnPatriot
May 4, 2009 - 9:26 am 66. AThinkingPerson:Anyone else find it odd and telling that the Liberals can NOT seem to defend TeleBama? Never a “but look at this program” or a “his tax plan will benefit ______” or a “he promised that after he bent us all over we’d get a huge tax break” comment.
Every liberal must sign some sort of document that they will promise to use the words Bush, Palin, tin-foil hat, etc. OR ELSE. It’s so predictable.
I’m choosing to now go Liberal free and totally disregard them until and unless they actually have an argument or relevant comment. I have to admit I was enjoying debating with them a bit too much and was bringing down this wonderful board to their level. I apologize to my fellow commentors. I promise to abstain from this moment onward to not engage in pointing out the obvious shortcomings or lack of intelligence or absence of sanity in any more liberals on this board. I figure they have to live with themselves for voting in this mess and that seems punishment enough for now.
May 4, 2009 - 9:26 am 67. Terry Gain:Pastor of Muppets:
Terry Gain: “Most Americans don’t want an attack on the rule of law or an economy that won’t recover because of these attacks. Deal with this man’s policy defects dodo.”
But you don’t speak for most Americans. You only speak for a very small fringe of reactionary right wing Americans who have been easily manipulated by racist talk radio hosts and backwater politicians into hating everything that conflicts with your narrow and bigoted worldview.
Most Americans do agree with the President, which is why he currently has a 70% approval rating.
Dear String Puller
I’m still waiting for you to back up your assertion that the waterboarded troika had tracheotomies because of that life saving (of others) procedure. Where is it?
Obama’s popularity is not fixed in stone. At some point the majority of people will get past this media created persona and figure him out. At that point everyone but the trolls like you will be Meryl@27.
When he was elected I predicted that it would take 18 months to reach that stage. I was clearly wrong. I underestimated Obama’s incompetence. We will all be Meryl before the end of this year.
May 4, 2009 - 9:30 am 68. Terry Gain:I meant Meryl @24.
May 4, 2009 - 9:37 am 69. Delia:28. Pastor of Muppets,
Your racist, elitist Liberal swine who supposedly ‘care’ about minorities and illegal aliens are perfectly fine with the supposed ’causes’ for said people so long as they don’t ever move into their neighborhoods.
When you idot Libs mindlessly scream “RACIST!” at Conservative commenters, please take a long, hard, unflinching look in the mirror. The KKK Liberals are such a hypocritical joke.
May 4, 2009 - 9:57 am 70. The Wizard:I think this sums up a lot of American’s feeling about Obama:
AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
Dear President Obama, You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.
You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.
You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.
You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.
You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.
You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don’t
understand it at its core.
You scare me because you lack humility and ‘class’, always blaming
others.
You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.
You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the ‘blame America ‘ crowd and deliver this message abroad.
You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.
You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a
government controlled one.
You scare me because you prefer ‘wind mills’ to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.
You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.
You scare me because you have begun to use ‘extortion’ tactics against certain banks and corporations.
You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.
You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.
You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and
omniscient.
You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.
You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O’Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.
You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.
Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.
May 4, 2009 - 9:59 am 71. Darby:Response to 24. Meryl:
Meryl your problem is that you think that the Constitution should be applied as written. Ignorant people like you (people not educated by liberal elite private universities) cannot possibly read a document and understand what it means. We need progressives like Obama to tell us what it means. That is also why we need him to tell us what car to drive, what gas to put in the car, what light bulb to use, make our healthcare decisions, decide what moral education our children should receive, invest our money, what we can say and think, what we can listen to on the radio, and force us to unionize or explain to the friendly union organizer Guido why we are voting no.
You probably also believe that a good judge applies the law equally regardless of race, sex, religion, or sexual preference. Everyone knows that really great judges have empathy and dispense justice as they see fit and not as required by the U.S. Constitution or laws passed by the elected legislature.
Of course I am not serious, but progressives really believe this crap. Disclaimer, I am of Italian decent so please do not report me for a hate speech violation for the Guido crack.
May 4, 2009 - 10:09 am 72. Pastor of Muppets:Terry Gain:“Dear String Puller
I’m still waiting for you to back up your assertion that the waterboarded troika had tracheotomies because of that life saving (of others) procedure. Where is it?”
As cited in the “2005 Bradbury memo”, the CIA inspector general noted that the original approval of waterboarding was based upon inadequate safety evaluation by qualified medical officers:
“See IG Report at 21 n26 (”[The CIA Office of Medical Services (OMS)] was neither consulted nor involved in the analysis of the risk and benefits of [enhanced interrogation techniques], nor provided with the OTS report cited in the OLC opinion [the Interrogation Memorandum].”). Since that time, based on comments from OMS, additional constraints have been imposed on the use of the techniques. ”
Evaluating the new constraints placed on waterboarding in the “2005 Bradbury memo” reveals a MAJOR change. “Harmless” waterboarding now required that a physician be present in the room in which the detainee is waterboarded to prevent death. Furthermore, they now included a tracheotomy kit in the room where “harmless” waterboarding was conducted:
“…a detainee could suffer spasms of the larynx that would prevent him from breathing even when the application of water is stopped and the detainee is returned to an upright position. In the event of such spasms, a qualified physician would immediately intervene to address the problem, and, if necessary, the intervening physician would perform a tracheotomy…. we are informed that the necessary emergency medical equipment is always present- although not visible to the detainee- during any application of the waterboard.”
May 4, 2009 - 10:15 am 73. Cybergeezer:All the Republicans need is another child who can lip-sync a tele-prompter, and it’s all over for this lip-syncing child.
May 4, 2009 - 10:23 am 74. Professor Guvinoff:Someone oughta come along pretty fast, because this child is going to wreck this nation for every body; HIS FOLLOWERS, TOO.
No one will be immune to his incompetence.
Before he was elected, there were many indications that the man thinks like a revolutionary. Now, he is behaving like one, and attacking the very foundations of America, the most extraordinary society anywhere at any time in history.
We have a constitution stipulating the supremacy of individual rights over state rights! Have you seen this anywhere else? This is unique, and evidently fragile. It has been defended many times before by people of courage.
There would not be tea parties if the danger was not real. Some people appreciate how special America really is. Liberty and the pursuit of happiness is the absolute negation of glorified irresponsibility under the guard of a super-mom state.
I prepared a one-page document on this topic at http://turbozero.com/liberty.pdf
Obama’s ambition is dangerous. Stand up!
May 4, 2009 - 10:35 am 75. Meryl:71.Darby.
Yeah, I guess my education just leaves a lot to be desired.
May 4, 2009 - 10:40 am 76. Terry Gain:@72 POM (Practiced Obama Mandaciousizer)
You claimed the al Qaeda troika had received tracheotomies. Liar.
May 4, 2009 - 10:45 am 77. Rachel Peepers:Awhile back when I became aware that laws to Obama were things you learn about, not restrict yourself and your friends to, I realized it was time to fight fire with fire.
Which means, during the Obama administration, we’re in a guerilla war situation, using any and all means at our disposal to expose the Annoying One for what he is, what he believes in and what his end game is.
When the Bombastic One hired Tim G., it told me that abiding by tax laws meant nothing to Obama. And I responded accordingly.
Palling around the domestic terrorists was a tipoff that with the right motives you can do no wrong. Morally or legally.
Barack Man has also demonstrated that he believes contracts which get in his way are worth not the paper they’re written on.
Property rights be damned, if Barack wants a company to fail, he’ll make it happen.
What all this comes down to is a suspension of the rule of law because Barack believes the rule of law doesn’t apply to him.
Therefore, friends, we fight fire with fire. And it’s a free fire zone.
A simple innocent aside. A guy who was selling me a big ticket item wanted to charge me sales tax. So I asked him how much it was, then informed the good fellow, when possible, I was no longer, until further notice, going to pay sales tax.
Are you serious was his reply.
“Affirmative” was mine.
Needless to say, the sales tax was not paid and the deal went through like there was no sales tax at all.
Or to put it another way, where we used to live, an idiot use to race his motorcycle down our street, typical surburban, quiet, kids playing, people cutting their grass. So I took my little brother to the front driveway, where we proceeded to have a catch. (gloves and a baseball)
I timed it so when the guy roared by, I threw the ball over my brother’s head as hard as I could. The timing was perfect with the baseball catching the helmetless, brainless biker square in the nogging whereupon he and his bike flew in different directions down the quiet street.
As luck would have it, the guy wasn’t hurt that badly, just a broken arm and a bad headache. But for some reason, he never again came roaring down our street.
And I’m just a lil’ ole’ blue eyed blond haired girl. Imagine, if one of you hulking strong studs signed up for Rachel’s guerilla milita. Imagine what lessons you could teach.
May 4, 2009 - 10:45 am 78. jw:President Obama also wants to make criminal the opinions of those who disagree with him. That is the intent of Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano’s memo calling all those who disagree with President Obama about anything were “right-wing extremist” who might possibly become terrorists – and therefore require police surveillance. The safest way to think about President Obama is that he is a communist, following the policies of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and of his friend Bill Ayers.)
(Of course, President Obama ignores the real terrorists, jihadists training in camps throughout the United States and his good friends Bill Ayers and Ayers’ wife, Bernardine Dohrn.)
May 4, 2009 - 10:47 am 79. The Shadow:Rachel P – With your kind of logic, you are going have trouble passing the bar
May 4, 2009 - 11:02 am 80. Professor Guvinoff:77 Rachel Peepers.
Your story reminds me of a short and frail-looking lady who was once approached by a big hulk in a deserted street, and who was going to grab her bicycle. She immediately and forcefully asserted her property of the bicycle, and that this was not negociable. The fellow probably had never seen anyone ever reacting this way before, and was totally disarmed!
Later she remarked that the guy was heavy enough to have been able to break her bones without even trying hard, but he had no idea that bullying tactics could possible fail.
This is not to recommend that you try to stop a car jacking by confronting the gun-totting fellow by verbal arguments, but there are many situations where we more power than we realize.
God bless the gutsy ladies!
May 4, 2009 - 11:22 am 81. lonesomecharlie:A new entry for Bartlets:
L’Constitution c’est moi.
Barak I
May 4, 2009 - 11:22 am 82. Nomad:#70 Very, very well said.. I concur
May 4, 2009 - 11:41 am 83. jerryofva:PoM:
Contrary to popular opinion, the best educated Americans come from high-end large state universities where recognition is earned by actual performance and not granted by virtue of showing up. The largest conentration of high achieving students is not found in Ivy League institutions but at places like UC Berkley, Michigan, North Carolina, Illinois and Wisconsin. (Not that these schools are any less Social Fascist then the Ivys.) For every 10 high achievers at Harvard there are 100 at top students at these state instutions. The only place where Ivy League means anything is on Wall Street, top law firms and DC. Ivy Leaguers are not hot commodities in Industry where wealth actually get created.
Like most Fascist bully boys you like to fling racist around instead of argument when you post here. I guess that comes from living in a closed environment where nobody will stand up to a bully. That wont’t happen here. From my experience the one shouting racist the loudest is the one who figuratively has a white beadsheet in the closet.
May 4, 2009 - 11:44 am 84. AThinkingPerson:#67 Terry Gain: FYI… The waterboarding information that Pastor of McNuggets has cut and pasted for you is indeed interesting. He’s trying to show you that it’s “torture” to waterboard because they must have a trach KIT and a PHYSICIAN on hand JUST IN CASE a detainee/terrorist/animal might choke on the water. Sounds like hell on Earth to me how about you? We surely must be animals. A kit and a physician on hand when we pour water on their faces? THE HORROR!!!!! Now if the terrorists would have provided Daniel Pearl with a life-saving KIT and a PHYSICIAN I’d say we were all playing by the same rule book.
Typical Liberal Anti-American, Anti-Military, Anti-CIA propaganda.
May 4, 2009 - 12:13 pm 85. Ms. Attitude:55.tanstaafl:
That was great, made my day! Thank you!
May 4, 2009 - 12:35 pm 86. D-wah:Rache–rock on!
Wizz–”you scare me..”- terrif compilation!
Athinkingperson: I’m trying to go “liberal free” as well–tough one, they SO beg for a shot, it’s hard. If it’s “teachable time” OK, but otherwise…
IGNORE THEM! Their assignment is to hassle and distract and try to get some angry reply. Funny thing is, they govern the same way–and then get on us for reacting…same old same old. I guess God made flies too.
“Pastor (passer!) of “McNuggets”–LOL good!
May 4, 2009 - 12:45 pm 87. tanstaafl:Palling around the domestic terrorists was a tipoff that with the right motives you can do no wrong. Morally or legally.
In fact, Billy Ayers has admitted that killing people in the name of service to a higher morality* is A-OK. Seriously, it’s a core tenet of the revolutionary manual.
*Who defines the higher morality ? Revolutionaries, Ché, Billy, head honchos of the Weather Underground, Saul Alinsky, you get the drill.
Anyway, it’s not much of a stretch to say that Barack Obama believes his own version of a “higher morality” trumps law, Constitutional and otherwise.
((#70 was a very good summary)
May 4, 2009 - 1:48 pm 88. Jack:No Surprise.
Obama is the pre-eminent anti-human rights extremist ruler on earth today. His actions are clearly against individual freedoms and fundamental principles embedded in our very nature.
Ignoring the rule of law is childs play to such a despot.
May 4, 2009 - 2:40 pm 89. Terry Gain:@84
I agree. POM is a typical liberal. He’s more interested in savaging conservatives than in seeing reasonable steps taken to protect innocent human life. He pretends that the waterboarding of KSM – for the purpose of learning what we need to know about the enemy to protect ourselves – is morally depraved.
It is not. It is the President’s responsibility to end a war as soon as possible and with as little loss of life as possible. Not to have used this very effective technique to learn what we could from the Architect of 9/11 would have been irresponsible.
POM judges this conduct, not by balancing the harm to KSM caused by waterboarding against the potential harm to innocent life of not taking this safe, humane, enlightened and extremely effective EIT, but by what partisan advantage can be achieved by condemning the practices of the evil Republicans.
If Clinton had waterboarded we would not have heard a peep from liberals (or conservatives)just as we do not hear a peep from liberals now as Obama follows the same Bush NSA policies they ranted and raved about for the last 5 years.
May 4, 2009 - 2:46 pm 90. Cindy Sue Causey:Just finished tweeting an Americans for Limited Government (ALG) piece called White House Gives the Go Ahead to Waterboard Bondholders.. If those numbers are fact, fairness and change be not afoot..
On a seemingly similar note to this Mind, am less than amused at the White House’s backdoor attempt to get a hold of the Internet by taking it upon themselves to control stimulus-induced broadband that a congressional mandate previously put under the Agriculture and Commerce departments.. I say backdoor attempt because they’ve already made shtink they want to control the Net’s cybersecurity [Yahoo! search], and that has not gone over well out here, fer shur.. Controlling a national broadband project would make for a great stealth entry into the same, wouldn’t it.
May 4, 2009 - 5:09 pm 91. seansarto:Obama is the resultant psychosis of those who support the agenda of, “When a girl says “no” she means “yes”…an’ when she says “yes” she means “no”…’cuz I knows women…I’se a ladies man!”
May 4, 2009 - 5:15 pm 92. Brian Richard Allen:I do not believe, nor will I ever endorse, such a psychosis as the endearing quality it has become in the American Narritive. The US Constitution was ordained by moral provisions…not subversive contrivance.
How sad that one of my heroes, Thomas Jefferson, was the one who changed the wording of the preamble of the Declaration of Independence from endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights to “life, liberty and (private) property,” to life, liberty and the “pursuit of happiness.”
And no surprises, either in that he was the first “Democrat” — and/or in that the basta*ds have been stealing from us ever since!
Brian Richard Allen
May 4, 2009 - 8:01 pm 93. robotech master:Los Angeles CalifO’ZEROcated
And the Far Abroad
“Never before have we seen such untrammeled disregard both for property rights and existing legal mechanisms.”
O come now godwin’s law clearly states otherwise.
May 4, 2009 - 10:10 pm 94. Rachel Peepers:I, Rachel Peepers, believe that there remains not one smidgen of reasonable doubt that B. Obama eschews the rule of law, starting with the constitution and ending with rules of decency and decorum.
As a result, my guerilla war against Barack’s plan to destroy America from within includes acrimonious jibes at even those whom the Annoying One proclaimed for all to hear were off limits. IE. Es decir. That is to say, don’t say nasty, hurtful, mean-spirited things about my wife, the lovely, Michelle.
Pardon me, my Surly Sir, but lil’ole’blond haired blue eyed Rachel is fixing to use her First Amendment right of free speech to name the ten ugliest first ladies in all of U.S. history, you know, the country she always was embarassed by; proud of, not.
Dave Letterman has his top ten Bush Bashing list. I call it Bush Bashing because in the last four years, Letterman used his list to bash Bush two hundred and ninety three times. So here’s my top ten. Sarah Polk being the prettiest of my ugliest list. If anybody actually looks up their pictures, it’s like going swimming in the local swimming hole. So wait a good half hour before you eat.
No. 10: Sarah Polk
When you’re asked, “What celebrity do you most resemble?” and you reply, “Mona Lisa,” that is not good.
No. 9: Mamie Eisenhower
Her smile is kinda sweet, so I feel a little guilty pointing out that her hairstyle belongs on a 5-year-old, not a 50-year old.
No. 8: Florence Harding
There are times when the librarian look is kinda sexy. And there are other times when it gives me the dry heaves.
No. 7: Ida McKinley
Love the Road Warrior Hawk look.
No. 6: Caroline Harrison
Or, as I like to call her, “Alexander Hamilton in drag.” At least we now know where Huey Lewis got his look from.
No. 5: Mary Lincoln
And all this time I thought John Wilkes Booth did a bad thing to Abe.
No. 4: Julia Grant
There is now no question that whips and chains have made their way into the White House. Punish me, Mistress Repellent!
No. 3: Abigail Fillmore
Fillmore, huh? How ’bout fill less? Looks like someone dumped a bowl of black squid ink linguini on her head.
No. 2: Eleanor Roosevelt
While she wasn’t beautiful, she was very learned. And, as Franklin used to say, “You got to hand it to her. She doesn’t sweat much.”
No 1: Michelle Obama
May 5, 2009 - 1:02 am 95. sheesh:Until she has her chromosomes checked, she may very well simply be a crusty looking middle aged man.
94. Rachel Peepers:
What in the world is Obama doing chewing law? That sounds un-American. Now be honest, this is all about Barbara Bush, isn’t it. I believe she was number . . . .where is she . . . .hey, she’s not on your list! I think you should spend a few more hours researching photos of dead first ladies. Then again, that might not be a good use of your time, given your demanding schedule at Stanford. But hey, that’s just me. I report. You decide.
May 5, 2009 - 6:47 am 96. sheesh:87. tanstaafl:
In fact, Billy Ayers has admitted that killing people in the name of service to a higher morality* is A-OK. Seriously, it’s a core tenet of the revolutionary manual.
You ever hear the term “collateral damage?” It’s the core tenet of the Project for the New American Century (and every other limp-dick conservative agenda the world suffers for.)
May 5, 2009 - 6:49 am 97. tanstaafl:“collateral damage?” It’s the core tenet…
I suspected someone like you (sheesh baby) would attempt to draw some such parallel. It’s in your genes, both the moral relativism & knee jerk reference to the Left’s pumped up bugaboo, an evil PNAC
There was nothing collateral (or unintended) about the damage inflicted on Billy’s choice of targets. Some of the Weatherman’s bombs were real duds, however, killing & miaming only themselves, Ayers, Dohrn & friends just as lame and pathetic in their hatred (and as determined to destroy the US) as Islamists.
BTW, I hope all Barry’s “empathy” (how he hopes to turn jihadists from the path of mayhem)…
Can change this guy’s mind
May 5, 2009 - 7:48 am 98. sheesh:97 falstaff . . . Sorry, too late to backpedal. You’re wrong and you know it. The issue is . . . “killing people in the name of service to a higher morality.” Collateral damage is not a surprise. We know it is going to happen. We know innocent people will die. But we do it anyway. It’s the same ultimate conceit that pro-lifers have regarding the death penalty. Thou shalt not kill. Sound familiar?
May 5, 2009 - 11:41 am 99. Delia:94. Rachel Peepers:
ROTFL!
Michelle not only look-a-like-a-man, but, a not very attractive man at that! YIKES! Number 1 indeed!
May 5, 2009 - 3:35 pm 100. tanstaafl:Sheesh, inflicting collateral damage isn’t anybody’s core tenet.
Specifically deciding which civilians should live and which should die as a function of a personal definition of “higher morality” was a core tenet of Ché, Hitler, Mao and a whole host of such individuals who slaughtered, literally, in the millions.
It was a core tenet of the elaborate constructs inside the brain of Bill Ayers and is a core tenet of Radical Islam.
It’s hubris, a god-like assessment of their own superiority (who lives, who dies) coupled with convincing themselves (or attempting to, anyway) of the superiority of their cause.
Sound familiar?
No. A Commandment, any commandment, has no bearing on my assessment of the stark difference between performing an abortion and imposing the death penalty.
May 5, 2009 - 5:04 pm 101. sheesh:100. Sorry, halfstaff, nothing there. Please try again.
May 5, 2009 - 7:14 pm 102. Mark:Congratulations, tanstaafl, you have sheesh whistling in the dark, hoping against hope that his claim that there’s nothing there will cause others to doubt their own lying eyes. Sheesh, just because you refuse to open your eyes and deal with your opponent’s points doesn’t mean anyone else is going to pretend it’s dark.
May 5, 2009 - 7:58 pm 103. sheesh.:You idiots think you can defeat me but you cannot because I will come back with new usernames to toy with your tiny little minds and there is nothing you can do about it. Yes I get paid to post here and so what…are you jealous? My gay friends and I are going to kick all your butts at the polls next election because gay power is going to put you hetero dinosaurs into extinction. Gay power!
May 5, 2009 - 7:59 pm 104. sheesh:103 . . . Sorry about that post. I’m not feeling like myself today.
May 6, 2009 - 8:01 am 105. Mike51:Remember people true change happens when the people overthrow the Imperial Government and the Kings are thrown in jail.
May 6, 2009 - 7:57 pm 106. sheesh:105 Mike . . . We did that last November. Thanks for noticing.
May 7, 2009 - 7:40 am 107. Cybergeezer:103. sheesh.:
May 7, 2009 - 5:49 pm 108. sheesh:You can come back with any covert handle you want; We know an anal embryo when we see one!
107 Cinderfella . . . Are congratulations in order? Are you and Bilgepump 3000 having a baby? Oh, you’re gonna love it. I just know you two guys are going to be great parents.
May 8, 2009 - 6:59 am