Posted on 04/20/2010 5:16:41 AM PDT by IbJensen
There is arguably no more influential conservative in America today than former Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese. To paraphrase an old marketing slogan, when Ed Meese talks, people listen. Rarely has such attention been more warranted than now, as President Obama prepares to select a new Supreme Court nominee whose views on national security and the law may have enormous bearing on the prospects for our victory in this War for the Free World.
After all, as Gen. Meese observed in a major policy address before an American Bar Association audience last Thursday: “In four major cases, the Supreme Court has involved itself in the conduct of this war in what has been a change in terms of the constitutional history and the traditions of the country.”
The lack of judicial restraint has, according to the Nation’s one-time top law enforcement officer, been compounded further by the “lack of clarity” on the part of the executive branch with respect to key aspects of this war. Particularly egregious has been the Obama administration’s determined effort to obscure whether we are even at war and with whom.
Mr. Meese observed:
As the Wall Street Journal stated just last week, ‘The United States cannot effectively combat the root causes of Islamic extremism by ignoring them. The War on Terror won’t be effective if this country overlooks the nature of the enemy and his motives.’
We must accurately recognize that we are in a war caused by certain belligerents who are seeking to impose their notions of Shariah law by threats, violence and intimidation on as much of the world as they possibly can, and who are committed to hostile action against those nations and those forces, including the United States, who they believe stand in their way.
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Ed Meese is still influential? He must be an insider’s insider. We don’t hear much from him out here in the real world.
“There is arguably no more influential conservative in America today than former Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese”
Stopped reading after the first line. Was this meant as a parody?
You are acting like a liberal. How about we attack the message and not a perfectly honorable message. In fact, the message is fine too. Read the rest of it, and you might agree.
Meese is dead wrong here and has proven he is unworthy of being taken seriously. Should the O-bot go over the deep end and the people forced to take up arms against him, this standard would allow the CIC to deem all political opponents enemies subject to detention and loss of property without due process.
Maybe 25 years ago, but not now. Palin and Limbaugh are the two most influential conservatives, probably followed by Levin and Beck.
Don't get me wrong, Meese is a good man, just not in the public eye so much anymore.
“You are acting like a liberal.”
You better be smiling if you say that to my face. It has nothing to do with being a liberal, it has to do with credibility. Anyone who says Meese is influential doesnt have a clue what they are talking about. As for the rest of the message, it’s nothing different than what conservatives have been saying since 2001.
Eric Holder, on the other hand is as evil and anti-America an AG as can be found.
Bill O'Reilly can say that Obozo is really, down-deep a good guy who only wants to do his best for his adopted nation, but then Bill O'Reilly is just a moderate sap who shares his president's initials.
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