Constitutional Law

Campaign doublespeak

Ken Blackwell has an article on Obama in the NY Sun.

"Senator Obama recently gave us a disturbing foretaste of the contradictory doublespeak we could expect under an Obama presidency"
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"Noting that some argue that the Second Amendment only grants state governments the power to arm National Guard units, Mr. Obama said he rejected that view in favor of the widely held belief that the Second Amendment ? like the rest of the Bill of Rights ? involves rights held by American citizens. "
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"[L]ater in that same story it says that in the same news conference where he spoke about an individual's right and the Second Amendment, Mr. Obama also said he supports the D.C. gun ban."
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"That's like saying you have the right to worship as you choose, but the government has the power to ban attending church. Or that you have the right to free speech, but that government has the power to stop you from speaking about any subject it wants. Or that you have the right against unreasonable searches and seizures, but that anything the government wants to search at your house is automatically reasonable."

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on February 21, 2008 (boomark / email).