Rand Paul’s moment and the end of Obama envy
A lot of the outpouring of conservative support for Paul’s filibuster on Obama’s drone policy went beyond the libertarian and anti-interventionist blocs of the movement who were also deeply troubled by Bush era counter-terrorism policies. Even those conservatives who may not agree with all of Paul’s views on presidential war powers were supportive if for no other reason than they relished seeing a conservative win a messaging war with Obama. It was impossible to dismiss this as just a right-wing Tea Party attack, because a lot of liberals agree with the substance of Paul’s criticism. This filibuster had to get under Obama’s skin. As much as anything else, he was elected on a promise to turn the page on the Bush era and conduct the war against terrorism with greater concern for civil liberties. Watching Paul’s filibuster last night, I couldn’t help but think that this is how Obama imagines himself – a principled crusader for justice. When Bush and Cheney were running the show, whatever could be said about them, at least they were consistent in supporting broad presidential powers in the realm of national security. But it’s hard to look back at the pre-2009 Obama and see him as anything other than an arrogant hypocrite now — somebody who thinks a muscular executive branch is okay so long as he’s running it.
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John McCain is a self-loathing sellout. It confounds me that he still has any support at all on the right, and yet, he does.
Right Mover on March 7, 2013 at 1:45 PM
Which liberals have repeatedly said they want, merely terming them “Re-education camps”
Compliance lawsuits to Christians, fines for not buying Obamacare, and much more are already happening, is this such a stretch?
Which Obama himself has said he wanted, but was (barely) smart enough not to say it out loud again.
Ohhh, how cute, the little Neo-N@zi b!tchcake is projecting again.
MelonCollie on March 7, 2013 at 1:46 PM
That pretty much sums up his supporters as well. The same bunch who were apoplectic over the mastermind of 9/11 being waterboarded are totally cool with a 16 year-old American kid being killed by a drone for no other reason than they trust Obama.
Doughboy on March 7, 2013 at 1:48 PM
Exactly. Remember how much liberal outrage there was over a child being kidnapped at gunpoint by federal thugs and shipped back to Communist Cuba?
Yeah, me neither.
So much for “midnight disappearances”.
MelonCollie on March 7, 2013 at 1:51 PM
Rand Paul on Megyn Kelley right now
UltimateBob on March 7, 2013 at 2:03 PM
It was on the radio news at hour breaks last night and this morning.
cptacek on March 7, 2013 at 2:03 PM
Funny I’m not the one who feels Hitler was just a mis-understood white guy, or rather that Hitler’s “sin” was he was a white guy….that would be YOU, dearie.
As to the rest, well I see…not yet…as usual, not yet…as the old joke says, “Fascism is always descending on America, but landing in Europe.”
JFKY on March 7, 2013 at 2:39 PM
More lying from the little Zionist wannabe. (the real ones are laughing at you.)
Try proclaiming the Holocaust of Communism over the Holocaust of Naziism. Seriously. Try it. The liberals won’t let you get to square one.
Why? A: It’s utterly impossible to link Marx to the right wing, whereas Hitler’s links to the right wing are merely laughably implausible by comparison. B: Marx was their hero even though he made Hitler look like a frigging choirboy. C: Hitler was one of those Evil White Men who are the only acceptable target in our sick culture.
MelonCollie on March 7, 2013 at 3:40 PM
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