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Meacham On Drone Kills: Obama Acting 'Like American King'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 02/06/2013 5:00:17 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Wow! Who would have thought that perhaps the strongest statement yet in condemnation of President Obama's self-arrogated right to kill Americans abroad would have come from Jon Meacham? Yet on today's Morning Joe, historian Meacham—who knows something about the use and abuse of presidential power—criticized Obama for ignoring the "rule of law" and actually described Obama as acting like "an American King."

Joe Scarborough seconded Meacham's surprising statement, adding that had this come to light under George W. Bush, impeachment would be in the air.

View the video here.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: americanking; barackobama; drones; jonmeacham

1 posted on 02/06/2013 5:00:33 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Barack I? Meacham thinks so! Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 02/06/2013 5:02:14 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Barack I? Meacham thinks so! Ping to Today show list.


3 posted on 02/06/2013 5:02:48 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest


4 posted on 02/06/2013 5:06:57 AM PST by Diogenesis (De Oppresso Liber)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

They were all over Bush for Waterboarding, and yet nothing is said when Obama kills an American.

Now I am not so much against killing this SOB they killed, only against Obama’s hypocrisy.

Obama makes Clinton look like a boy scout when it comes to lying.


5 posted on 02/06/2013 5:14:20 AM PST by Venturer
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

They were all over Bush for Waterboarding, and yet nothing is said when Obama kills an American.

Now I am not so much against killing this SOB they killed, only against Obama’s hypocrisy.

Obama makes Clinton look like a boy scout when it comes to lying.


6 posted on 02/06/2013 5:14:36 AM PST by Venturer
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

We are being positioned, politically, that while the President is eroding and trampling the Constitution, if you speak out - or act out - against his destruction of the nation, those actions are categorized as capital crimes. First, overseas Americans being droned to death, then the drones will be used within the CONUS. Impeachment must be considered if not acted upon.


7 posted on 02/06/2013 5:16:53 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Hey, Hey, Barack! What Do You Say? How Many Kids Have You Killed Today?

8 posted on 02/06/2013 5:39:40 AM PST by SC DOC
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What they don’t understand is that when you Kill someone, all info they have is lost. We are losing a tremendous amount of intel that could protect us. Somehow Obama has convinced the world that Waterboarding is bad and killing is good. His statements don’t surprise me, but the gullibility of the people who believe this is more surprising.


9 posted on 02/06/2013 5:51:40 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (...and to the Republic for which it STOOD...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Meacham On Drone Kills: Obama Acting 'Like American King'

It's only a matter of time until der 0berFuhrer, emperor Hussein 0bama, decides it is necessary for drone strikes on Americans in this Country!

How quickly it has gone from "don't tase me bro!" to "don't drone me!"

10 posted on 02/06/2013 5:55:03 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (It's not "GUN CONTROL"! It's "PEOPLE CONTROL"!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

F,Meacham,he’s a boot-licker.Once in awhile he tries to
show that he has journalistic intergity.


11 posted on 02/06/2013 6:39:05 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: Venturer

The thing with Obama is that his ego has been so overinflated by his adoring public and the media, that he doesn’t even need to lie. And no one challenges him in any significant way.

Using the racist card, which he has done to a fare-thee- well, has worked. Funny thing is, he’s adopted the ‘black urban culture’ but isn’t authentically one of them, any more than he is culturally “American.”


12 posted on 02/06/2013 6:53:54 AM PST by EDINVA
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Now I am not so much against killing this SOB they killed, only against Obama’s hypocrisy.

I am against it and that SOB did need killing. It is but a VERY SMALL STEP from this to "targeted killings" of political enemies here at home.

Our president is a dedicated hard left Marxist. Marxist philosophy and dogma condone massive murder of their own citizens in order to establish a Marxist State. Why just stop at the border when you order executions?

List of murders by Marxists and Socialists:

Hitler about 12 million murdered. NAZI stands for National Socialist Party.

Stalin about 20 to 30 million

Mao about 60 million

Please note that this is just the top three. There are many others where "just" a few hundred thousand or a few million were murdered. When it comes to political genocide by the Marxists you can only estimate the deaths as the records do not exist. With Mao it is give or take 10 million people, Stalin give or take 5 million, and Hitler give or take a couple of million.

All the despots in history have not murdered as many as the above three. Two of them were Marxists and one a Socialist.

ps
This is what the second amendment is about. If you read the Federalist Papers this was debated prior to they adoption of the Bill of Rights. These debates centered on the dangers of a strong central government becoming a despotic regime. It is not about hunting it is about Freedom. The reason they want our firearms is they really want our Freedom.

Marxists will want to and will try to kill you if you are a counter force against them.

13 posted on 02/06/2013 7:02:29 AM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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Of course they cannot start their political killings while we have the 2nd. Amendment, but they are working on that.

But you see, you and I are conspiracy theorists,nuts, crazies to ever think of that being the reason the politicians want us unarmed.

It’s for the children. The ame old BS they always pull when they want us disarmed or on Government health care.


14 posted on 02/06/2013 7:18:17 AM PST by Venturer
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To: EDINVA

Most Hybrids lean toward their black side,because they are accepted more easily there.

Even liberal whites who claim to be neutral toward race, do not really accept these people as white.

Obama is a good example of what I post.He leans toward his black side for this reason and hates his mother for his being born of mixed blood. Rather he would accept his drunken womanising father.That isn’t my idea, but his, He wrote about it in his book.


15 posted on 02/06/2013 7:28:04 AM PST by Venturer
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He wrote about it in his book.

Did Obama write a book? Or did he provide some materials for Bill Ayers to ghostwrite it for him?

16 posted on 02/06/2013 12:54:19 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

The rumor is that Bill Ayres wrote the book. Who knows. We don’t even know for sure who his daddy was.


17 posted on 02/06/2013 8:14:48 PM PST by Venturer
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