ext_85117 ([identity profile] thies.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics2010-04-07 08:56 am
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Using the constitution as toilet paper - again. The Obama administration authorized the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki who holds US citizenship. There is some nefarious precedent being created by allowing the President to order the killing of American citizens, regardless of their alleged crimes, without granting them their 5th Amendment rights. Bush with his renditions, and the implications of the Patriot Act was bad enough, but ordering a US citizen to be assassinated as Obama now did takes it to a whole new level. I bet Stalin would be proud of Barry Soetoro. Anyone want to wager which other parts of the constitution will be considered void by Obama until he gets kicked out of the white house?

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[identity profile] ironhawke.livejournal.com 2010-04-08 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
This. Especially on the last paragraph. The sorts of distortions that the OP originally started with (wiping his ass, etc) lead me to believe that this isn't so much an issue with the actual facts of the situation, but more of an opportunity to bash the Prez. Unfortunately I've been seeing a lot of this lately and it smacks of the desperation of the left during the middle years of the Bush administration. (After he pissed a lot of people off, but before the facts started emerging that he was as much of a douchebag as they thought.)