See my entry earlier today on the Supreme Court decision holding that imposing the death penalty for child rapists is unconstitutional (subverting the demoratic will of the people of Louisiana, and other states). Obama weighed in with a totally deceptive "opinion" on the Supreme Court opinion (deceptive whether he means it or not), as follows:
"Democrat Barack Obama said Wednesday he disagrees with the Supreme Court's decision outlawing executions of people who rape children, a crime he said states have the right to consider for capital punishment."
This is the height of dishonest, sanctimonious hypocrisy (something in which leftist politicians, and leftists in general, excel--see previous entry today on the New York Times).
Obama well KNOWS that judges he appoints to the Supreme Court will declare the entire death penalty unconstitutional for ALL crimes (in all likelihood). It is the LEFTIST bloc on the Supreme Court (with the addition of Antony Kennedy) which is responsible for this decision, AND for the recent incredible decision that FOREIGN terorirsts picked up on FOREIGN battle fields have a right to Constitutional rights of the same type as American citiziens. The only two judicial appointees of Bill Clinton were in the leftist bloc responsible for both 5 to 4 decisions. It is true that 3 Republican appointees (two neverless of the FAR LEFT--Souter and Stevens) joned them, but the four "conservative" dissenters were ALL Republican appointees OPPOSED by leftists like Obama--and by the type of people that Obama is surely going to appoint as justices.
Does Obama support a Constitutional Amendment to REVERSE this decision? Does he PROMISE that no justice appointed by him will vote to eliminate the death penalty, or to support this decision? Of course not. As I said, he is a sanctimonious hypocrite in essence CONCEALING from the American people what his (future, if he wins the Presidency) judicial appointees will do.
This is POLITICAL DECEPTION--Obama giving a personal opinion he KNOWS is totally meaningless in the hope of deceiving voters as to the type of judges he will appoint.
Here is a comment from AOL, and my response, to further claify this point:
"We invest millions of dollars, thousands of people, and hundreds of organizations to protect children across the world....yet we can't even protect the children in our own country. This is not about democrat or republican, race, gender, etc. It is about our children and everyone should come together to protect them. Whether conservative or liberal, our court system failed our children today."
I don't disagree with the above. I especially agee that the PEOPLE, in a democracy, should be making these decisions (which may be VITAL to protect our children)--not LEFTIST judges imposing their POLICY preferences on the country. What the above ignores is that the LEFTIST bloc on the Suprme Court (plus Kennedy) was responsbile for this decision, while the CONSERVATIVE bloc on the Court opposed it. Thus, you live in a FANTASY world if you believe there is not an ideological component to this--where Obama is on the WRONG side as to what kind of judges to apporint.
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