Posted on 10/20/2004 6:09:01 AM PDT by jhigh
Did you catch John Kerry's gaffe in the third debate?
No, not the one about Mary Cheney being born a lesbian. That abusive and cynical outburst produced gasps in living rooms around the nation and certainly cost Kerry votes.
But there was a more serious gaffe in the debate. It revealed how Kerry's vision of government is at odds not just with that of George Bush but with that of America's founders. In answer to a question about gay marriage, Kerry said: "Because we are the United States of America, we're a country with a great, unbelievable Constitution, with rights that we afford people, that you can't discriminate in the workplace. You can't discriminate in the rights that you afford people."
"A gaffe," as columnist Michael Kinsley once wrote, "is when a politician tells the truth." In this case, Kerry's gaffe is an inadvertent statement of what he--and many on the left--believe is the truth but is actually false and dangerous.
The key phrase was "rights that we afford people." This was no mistake. He said it twice.
Kerry believes that the United States government, through the Constitution, "affords" rights to Americans. My dictionary defines "afford," in this context as "give, grant, confer." In other words, we fortunate, benighted Americans have a country, a government that grants us rights.
That's an utterly inaccurate reading of the great documents of the founding of this nation. Our government does not grant us any rights at all. On the contrary, Americans start off with rights, and it is we who grant the government certain limited powers to protect those rights.
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well.....DUH....but the liberals will never understand that...they believe all rights and good things flow from the goobermint to the sheeple,..but in fact, its supposed to be the other way around. Liberals dont get this basic fact: God-People-Goobermint. the natural and real order of things.
The Capt.
GWB and the RNC should be made aware of this.
Such subject factors can never be considered objective.
It is easy to claim that increased expenditures on health increases productivity and therefore economic activity which benefits everyone.
Almost everything imposes "involutary costs" on someone which is one of the reasons government grows as the societies become more complex.
There was a reason the BoR listed specific rights.
and your interpretation is specifically why the founders balked at a listing of rights.
They were concerned that those rights listed would be considered to be the only rights that the government couldn't infringe on - Kerry's view.
In reality, people hold ALL rights, and the government is only allowed to infringe on those rights in the areas that it is specifically authorized to.
What about when JF'nK said somenting about (paraphrase from memory)"...interpert the Constitution according to law..."
The reason the BoR was explicit was because those were the only ones they could agree on. It is true that Hamilton and Madison did not want a BoR for the reason you stated. But to secure the support of the ideologues (generally nutcases) for the Constitution they promised to pass the BoR as soon as possible.
I place little concern for nebulous lists of "rights" since there is no universal agreement on many as my initial list demonstrates. Most of those who do seem to be ideologues to me.
I remembered that so I went looking for it. Is this the one?
From the second debate (1st paragraph for some context):
KERRY: Will we have equal opportunity? Will women's rights be protected? Will we have equal pay for women, which is going backwards? Will a woman's right to choose be protected?
These are constitutional rights, and I want to make sure we have judges who interpret the Constitution of the United States according to the law.
Oooh. Good catch!
But just as an aside: "rights that we afford people" is too complicated a phrase for the average Dumbocrat to absorb anyway. Even if it is said very slowly.
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This is BACKWARDS! Judges swear to interpret laws according to the Constitution; and interpret the Constitution according to the original intent of the authors (as well as it can be determined). It is very scary that a Senator of twenty years is this ignorant, or this perverse.
Our Constitution is the most sacred original document in the country (possibly on earth), IMHO.
Well if you ask any liberal they will say we can't afford the second amendment.
A government that "affords" rights is a government that rescinds them, (precisely the operant definition of a Kerry regime, witness his campaign).
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Here it is! I knew I had seen it. You wouldnt have found it because the title is different.
Hey ping to 43; and its one I had pinged you to on that post, thought you might like it.
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Good catch.
But don't have your deleted. It has a good title.
I wish I could find the text of Jay Sekulows comments on Ben Kinchlows show. I am not a fan of bens but as I was changing channels I saw Jay. It was really, really good.
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Hey, thanks Red. Glad you found it.
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