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To: Eagle Eye; Kevmo; AuntB; wagglebee
Why does he support abortion rights? IT IS THE LAW! And he is supposed to support the law, not just the ones he likes. Supporting the law per one’s oath of office, what a concept!

Tell that to the people whose 2nd Amendment rights were abridged by Rudy. He clearly didn't mind not supporting THAT constitutional law...you can't pick and choose.

110 posted on 04/05/2007 12:36:00 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (Vote for Duncan Hunter in 2008. Audio, Video, and Quotes in my profile.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Isn’t the topic abortion and not 2A rights?


113 posted on 04/05/2007 12:38:43 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (Pelosi Democrats agree with Al Queda more often than they agree with President Bush.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007; Eagle Eye; Kevmo; AuntB
And he is supposed to support the law, not just the ones he likes.

Just think, if Abraham Lincoln had thought that way, we would still have slavery.

Supporting the law per one’s oath of office, what a concept!

The president's oath is to "aithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Nowhere in the Constitution does it suggest that a president is not free to interpret the Constitution. Nor does the Constitution say that women have the right to kill their babies. The fact that a group of men decided that something is constitutional, does not mean that it is. Otherwise, such "gems" as the Dred Scott Decision and Plessy v. Ferguson would still be the law of the land.

A president is fully within his rights to voice his opinion on the legitimacy of a Supreme Court ruling. There is no "law" that says the president must "support" abortion rights, he simply cannot interfere with them (and the legitimacy of that is questionable at best because under our present system, the three branches of government are not "coequal" as the Founding Fathers intended).

138 posted on 04/05/2007 1:06:32 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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