The War Against The States
The Obama administration's war against the states continues unabated and un-deterred by such trivialities as popular sentiment or the consent of the governed. The Justice Department filed suit today against the state of Arizona for having the audacity to protect its citizens from what had become, for all practical purposes, an invasion. Citing the state's ostensible infringement on the federal government's "pre-eminent authority," to leave its citizens defenseless, the oxymoronically named Department of Justice claims that the Arizona law will,
"...cause the detention and harassment of authorized visitors, immigrants and citizens who do not have or carry identification documents."
Of course, federal law already requires visitors and immigrants to carry their identification documents with them. Arizona's law merely mirrors the federal law which, come to think of it, should be an occasion for the feds to go scr... er, sue themselves. So federal law, when enforced by a state, becomes harassment. But real harassment by, say, Black Panther thugs at a voting precinct, becomes an opportunity to drop all charges. Folks, this is third-world incompetence on American soil.
Meanwhile, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal commented today on his continuing battle with the feds to protect his state's citizens. "So far we've not heard an alternative plan. All we've seen is bureaucracy and roadblocks." That's change we can believe in? The oil spread into Lake Pontchartrain today, leaving Jindal to fight the oil and the administration.
The inescapable impression one is left to grapple with, from his fight with a state's effort to maintain its territorial sovereignty, his hampering of other states' efforts to protect their resources, to his plans to decimate our nation's defense and his intention to confiscate ever greater chunks of our earnings, is that this President doesn't much like us. Have we ever in our history had a president so contemptible of, and hostile to, the American citizen?
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Jun '10
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I wonder if we're just dealing with people who believe in "group rights" (rather than individual rights) to the point of ridiculousness. As they see it, if most Latinos in America are here perfectly legally, then how dare the police bother ANY Latino to identify himself? If most blacks would never dream of interfering with anybody's voting rights, well, then it's silly to claim that some black individuals are interfering with voting rights. They're part of a group that would never do that, so they (the individuals) would never do that. Group rights equals group guilt, or in these cases, group innocence.
May '10
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I get the impression President Obama likes those of us who dislike ourselves: Americans who would be content if only they weren't Americans. "Citizen of the world" types who, like the president, are sooo over American exceptionalism.
I take it as given that most politicians - left or right; local, state, or federal - care about me only so far as I have time and money to donate. Only with Barack Obama and a few others (Bob Etheridge, anyone?) is there a palpable sense of, as you said, contempt.
Jun '10
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Siding with non-Americans against the will of American citizens crosses a line for me. I call it treason. You're all thinking it; it's time someone came out and said it.
Jul '10
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The wild Manchurian Candidate theories about Obama we used to laugh about sound more reasonable with each passing day. Surely, incompetence and malignant narcissism can't explain everything.
May '10
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Barack Obama is America's Hugo Chavez.
Jun '10
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It's gone beyond malignant narcissism to an entirely new category. Anybody who thinks he can "fundamentally transform America" against the will of 300 million cantankerous citizens suffers from delusions of godhood. I'm open to suggestions as to the possible neologisms.
May '10
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It's worse than that. Obama is fundamentally prejudiced to the core of who he is. If you're not black or Muslim he hates you. Unless you're a radical liberal...then he'll overlook your faults.