WaPo poll: 61% disagree with Supreme Court on Gitmo detainee habeas rights

Why that low?

The rest of these people need to get beyond their blind hatred of Bush. It’s not about him; it’s about giving the rights of US citizens to non-US-citizens, and people who hate US citizens and the rights of US citizens.
You can’t put it any plainer than this!

Not kidding.

Poll disregarded as meaningless tripe.

WaPo poll: 61% disagree with Supreme Court on Gitmo detainee habeas rights

What’s troubling about this poll. Other than up their butts, where else can the heads of the 39%ers be?

The lefties are after the emasculation of the U.S.A., and diminishing the military machine is a core facet ot it.

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Profitsbeard, in agreement that The Court needs to be contained we must realize that their crude power grab was NOT unconsciously or naively made, but very purposefully accomplished so as to be DUPLICATED my the many lower courts.

But a slight majority is slightly hopeful.

The SCOTUS members ALL failed to appreciate the Constitutional violation inherent in their habeus corpus ruling:

-presuming that THEY could declare when a war -or “invasion”- was occuring, or not.

Which is not within their scope.

Congress alone has the power to declare war, and the President to execute it.

This decision exposed a complete failure of the Court to assess its proper Constitutional realm, and becomes a crude power grab, however unconsciously or naively the move was made.

The Court needs to be contained.

An “activist Court” is troubling, but an Expansionist Court is intolerable.

I am certain that so many people on ritalin have had their brain waves altered so as not to cohesively think independently from a given point A to B to C to D. Couple stunted thought process with stunted education and the popular media’s destruction of Enlightened Reason, we should be counting our blessings that 61% of the polled population still recognize and reject tyranny from the judicial bench.

Summum ius, summa iniuria. Highest law, greatest injustice.

But it all depends on who you talk to. I live in the country and this is a Democratic Congressional district. Blue Dog country, and I have seen no enthusiasm for Obama around here. Not one bumper sticker, nothing.

They’re not going to identify with ANYone over forty, they’re going to routinely assume that NO “older person” is ever going to “understand” them or represent them. I write this so assuradly because I remember how I thought and reasoned when in early (if not throughout) twenties (though my disassociation wasn’t antagonistic toward the older, it was just disassociated like nearly everyone else I knew of that same age).

This is the hurdle we face today from the Right as to having a candidate of McCain’s age versus an opponent of middle age who’se so far managed a good performance as “a young guy” (despite him being middle-aged).

Which (also) probably explains the preposterous support for Obama as “representing…values” because it’s predominantly viewed skewered by age differences, I believe. If you’re talking jive (Obama is) and dancing with Ellen (Obama is), you’re just looking more like you’re with it than McCain frowning at the Ellen invite to walk her down the aisle (Ia gree with McCain, however).

I’m just referring to the age differences, younger views group approval and group emotional union more importantly than the older among us, and as you age, you realize you have to have your own, individual set of principles and reasons and there may not always be a crowd there to take cover with or issue approvals. I think younger, you don’t yet understand that versus older, you do. Thus, younger, they’re associating an audience applauding a celebrity and a big grin on a guy as more agreeing with “values,” etc.

Tied for the “strong leader” question?

Gonna’ need a lot of photos like these over the next 6 months.

And I’m not sure those would work either. It’s a Democrat year – decade? – and there’s not much anyone can do about it. That’s why Hillary fought so hard for the nomination; everything points to a Democratic election.

WaPo poll: 61% disagree with Supreme Court on Gitmo detainee habeas rights

IMHO a better poll would have been, how many agree, or disagree if the five insane SCOTUS members that legislated this nonsense BE REMOVED (IMPEACHED). Keep in mind, the same five jesters did us under in Kelo vs. City of New London, on eminent domain.

Could this mean that the American people have not become so dumbed down as once thought?

I wonder when we’re going to see a poll asking voters if the fact that Obama is the preferred choice of terrorist group Hamas, as well as despots like Kim Jong Il, Hugo Chavez, and Fidel Castro, makes them more or less likely to vote for Obama?

To answer one of your other questions, “Why is Maverick hammering this point if public opinion is so lopsidedly against him?”, consult Rasmussen:

Forty-five percent (45%) of likely voters agree with Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama that it’s a good idea for the U.S. president to meet directly with the leader of Iran, but well over half (59%) think that talks should only take place after Iran stops developing nuclear weapons.

The wording of the question is key, which goes back to my overall point about not attaching too much meaning to a single question in a single poll. Indeed, the same point is made within this very poll on the values questions, as you note — the topline says one thing, the internals something a bit different.