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Obama vs. the First Amendment
National Review ^ | September 15, 2012 | Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on 09/15/2012 6:14:14 AM PDT by SMGFan

Democrats and their sharky Obamedia defense lawyers are in a snit. For three dreamy convention days in Charlotte, they told themselves that, for the first time in decades, it was their guy who had the upper hand when it came to national security. Now that bubble has burst, the way contrived narratives do when they crash into concrete challenges. At that point, an airy president of the world won’t do; we need to have a president of the United States, a job that has never suited, and has never been of much interest to, Barack Obama.

Defense against foreign enemies is the primary job of the president of the United States. The rationale for the office’s creation is national defense — not green venture capitalism, not rationing medical care, not improving the self-image of the “Muslim world,” not leaving no child behind, not blowing out the Treasury’s credit line. Yet, though we are entering the late innings, foreign policy and national defense have not been factors in the 2012 campaign.

That is worth bearing in mind when we hear the laugh-out-loud narrative of Obama as foreign-affairs chess master. The president badly wants to win reelection. If there were anything to his alleged prowess, we’d not have heard the end of it. What we’ve heard, instead, is a bumper-sticker: “Obama killed Osama.” The Left hoped to paste it over the president’s generally dreary record. Even with the Obamedia in coordinated overdrive, the plan can work only if Mitt Romney lets it work — and, thankfully, it looks like he won’t.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1stammendment; 911ii; 911iiandymccarthy; 911iiromneyresponse; andymccarthy; obama1stamendment
Mark R. Levin ‏@marklevinshow This sums it up: please read and circulate... http://fb.me/thXGFaYe
1 posted on 09/15/2012 6:14:17 AM PDT by SMGFan
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wow that is a great article


2 posted on 09/15/2012 6:25:56 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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The government is our servant, not our master — besides enforcing valid laws, it has no business using its coercive power to play social engineer.

Tens of thousands of lines of tax law say otherwise.
3 posted on 09/15/2012 6:27:10 AM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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Thank you Mr. Levin - it’s about time someone with listeners speaks of the assault they are building against the Firts Amnedment by the incessant blaming those who practice Free Speech for the violence of others.


4 posted on 09/15/2012 6:35:07 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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5 posted on 09/15/2012 6:37:33 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." - Ayn Rand)
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Anyone remember that Obama threatened the opposition in the 2008 election with criminal and police action as well?

This animal is what this animal is.


6 posted on 09/15/2012 7:02:40 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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“America will not tolerate attacks against our citizens and against our embassies. We’ll defend also our constitutional rights of speech, and assembly, and religion. We have confidence in our cause in America. We respect our Constitution. We stand for the principles our constitution protects. We encourage other nations to understand and respect the principles of our constitution, because we recognize that these principles are the ultimate source of freedom for individuals around the world.”

Thank you Governor Romney! We MUST defeat Obama!


7 posted on 09/15/2012 7:14:53 AM PDT by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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BTTT!


8 posted on 09/18/2012 12:18:25 PM PDT by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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