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Liberal Icon Urges Impeachment: Obama 'The Most Destructive, Dangerous President We've Ever Had'
Independent Journal Review ^ | January 21, 2014 | Mike Miller

Posted on 01/26/2014 9:59:50 AM PST by lbryce

A well-respected constitutional expert is blasting President Obama’s unprecedented abuse of powers, and has decribed him as worse than Richard Nixon. He even goes so far as to call him the most un-American president in the history of the nation.

The words of an arch-conservative? Hardly. The warnings of a liberal icon.

Nat Hentoff, historian, novelist and syndicated columnist, is not a fan of Barack Obama. In fact, Hentoff says it’s time to consider impeachment — citing Obama’s tendency to resort to executive orders or actions whenever his proposals are rejected by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

“Apparently he doesn’t give one damn about the separation of power. Never before in our history has a president done these things.”

The executive power abuse issue most recently made the headlines last week when Obama said: “I’ve got a pen … and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions.”

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cabal; foreignoperative; hentoff; impeachment; impeachobama; msm; nwo; obama; remove; usurped
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To: RitaOK

I’m not sure Henthoff is a liberal. Maybe a libertarian? I’m not a student of his work or even a regular reader, but when I do ready him I’ve often found myself agreeing with him or at the very least acknowledging that he argues logically. I’m pretty darn conservative and I don’t tolerate irrational or emotionally hysterical arguments.


61 posted on 01/26/2014 5:22:15 PM PST by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; generally

Surely we don’t have to fuss over the classic definition of the word, “liberal”, do we, as applied to Nat, the “liberal icon” exactly described in the title?

And surely we don’t have to pole vault for a snark, to reach some bizarre extrapolation of the word “snit”, by applying it to “30 years” of opposition to abortion and then sticking a question mark on the tail.

Insulting, actually, which should tell you that I am pro-LIFE, making hard to appreciate your humor.


62 posted on 01/26/2014 6:42:42 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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1) A liberal isn’t necessarily a leftist.

2) The GOP prolly wants to get past the Obama era without incident thinking it will have paid its obligatory race-card fees.


63 posted on 01/26/2014 6:49:58 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Old Yeller

Yes, no doubt many key congresscritters are under influence of blackmail.


64 posted on 01/26/2014 7:38:23 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: lbryce
“I’ve got a pen … and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions.”

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"The pen is mightier than the sword."

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Yeah -- until the guy with the sword swings it at the guy with the pen...

65 posted on 01/26/2014 7:44:12 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: RitaOK
Rita, I did not mean to insult you. You're a valued FReeper and pro-life ally.I fumbled expressing my puzzlement. I just don't understand you giving the back of your hand to Nat Hentoff, an other good ally over all these years. He's been especially helpful in defending the Free Speech and Free Association rights of Pro-lifers, Christians, and Conservatives on college campuses.

What's with saying he's having a "snit" over Obama? He seems to have made a serious moral and political judgment against his unconstitutional policies.

66 posted on 01/27/2014 3:19:39 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Sanity is the adequate response of the mind to the real thing: adaequatio mentis ad rem.)
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To: conservativehistorian

“I wish I could do something about the current depressing state of America, but it seems beyond my control.”

Careful, a Don Quixote minded freeper will be along any second urging you to vote even harder and to take over your local Republican party.


67 posted on 01/27/2014 5:50:20 AM PST by Luke21
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Nat is a self proclaimed athiest, who works both ends of the political spectrum for a check. (This makes him a thinker’s thinker—some kind of genius, I guess.)

Presently he chirps for our side, but would I share a fox hole under fire with him—”No”. Would I go to the mat for him—”No”.

If no one minds, I’ll let Nat finish his evolving.


68 posted on 01/27/2014 7:36:31 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: Howie66; vette6387; unkus; freekitty; flat; ZULU; rodguy911; Paratrooper; Las Vegas Ron; ...

My opinion is that the members of Congress don’t give a damn about the country, our security, our Constitution, or our security. It’s all about THEM and getting reelected so they can suck more and more until they’re so senile they don’t know where they are anymore. They service each other while sucking every dime they can out of lobbyists and the American taxpayers. Their God is their Elitist egos and feeding their quest for power to the exclusion of everything else especially what’s good for the country, wanna bet?


69 posted on 01/27/2014 8:08:58 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I think that you have pretty well nailed it, Ma’am.


70 posted on 01/27/2014 8:12:01 AM PST by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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To: lbryce
The title of this thread/article is deceptive. Nat Hentoff hasn't been a "liberal icon" for decades. He's long since affiliated with the Right.

I was genuinely hoping I'd learn of an actual liberal icon who was criticizing Obama. I should have known better.

71 posted on 01/27/2014 8:39:31 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Totally agree


72 posted on 01/27/2014 8:54:24 AM PST by ZULU (Magua is sitting in the Oval Office. Ted Cruz/Phil Robertson in 2016.)
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To: RitaOK

It sounds like he’s offended you.


73 posted on 01/27/2014 11:28:41 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Sanity is the adequate response of the mind to the real thing: adaequatio mentis ad rem.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I don’t know or follow Hentoff, so can’t say he has ever offended me.

I have no idea how many parts per gallon that Nat H. is both a self-professed athiest and a “liberal icon”, and what parts he is conservative. Conservative icon was just not a part of the title. Your issue might be better taken up with the columnist who wrote the title and called him a liberal icon.

For me, athiest thinking in general is suspect, though I admit that even a stopped clock can be right twice a day. Kudos to Nat, twice a day. :)


74 posted on 01/27/2014 12:22:01 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: RitaOK
According to ZC at #71, Na is no longer considered a "liberal icon." I guess they came and took his membership card away.

Who knows, maybe by now he's a disciple of Jesus Christ Our Lord. I have been putting the invisible prayer beams on him :o)

75 posted on 01/27/2014 5:12:48 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Jesus saw that he spoke with understanding, and said, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God.")
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To: lbryce
Bttt.

5.56mm

76 posted on 01/27/2014 5:13:32 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: ExTexasRedhead
Excuse me, Madam. This is my thread and I don't recall granting you permission to post anything, anything at all. :-( !!!

Howdy, stranger! Nice to see you out and about, exercising your inherent God-given Second Amendment privileges.

See you, around my dear, Yellow Rose of Texas! :-)

77 posted on 01/27/2014 5:28:16 PM PST by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

:) Nat is a lucky boy to have your prayer beams.


78 posted on 01/27/2014 5:54:52 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
Well, ZC, commenter #75, thinks you're nit-picking but I won't argue with a fellow conspirator. I've made the moderator aware of your concerns and asked that the thread be removed so as not to impugn Free Republic and the credibility of the articles posted. It should be removed anytime now. Leilah Tov. Leh'Hit'Triot.
79 posted on 01/27/2014 6:15:48 PM PST by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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To: RitaOK

Nat turns 89 today.


80 posted on 06/10/2014 1:31:45 PM PDT by Borges
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