I issue the following challenge to Barack Obama:
Go to Harry Reid on the brightest day he can find. It must be a day when the steps of the capitol building are so bathed in the light of the sun that there is nowhere to hide. On this day Barack must demand that the Majority Leader accompany him to those steps and pledge to end all business before the Senate. Until such time as the House puts before them articles of impeachment with teeth sharper than anything found on a shark, a tiger, or any viper the Senate will stop government. And I mean NO BUSINESS.....no criminal legislation, no appropriations, and no appointments (and you must keep the Senate in skeleton session to prevent any recess appointments). I also want Reid to sign a provisional resignation from the Senate that says if he fails to act faithfully on his pledge he will leave the Congress. You want "leadership you can believe in or trust or whatever" well there it is.....that, good citizens, IS LEADERSHIP!!!! You want my support back.....those are my terms. And I don't want to hear any of you snot-nosed little whiners telling me I'm being childish or unreasonable. It is this country's weak-kneed acquiesence to the criminals currently in power that is childish and unreasonable. It's time to grow up America. IT'S TIME TO BE GREAT AGAIN!!!!!!
It is with the heaviest of hearts that I say my support for Barack Obama is now provisionally suspended. I cannot, in good conscience, support a man who has voted to attack the 4th Amendment and has rhetorically opposed the 13th Amendment of the Constitution.
4th Amendment
Barack had three choices when he considered his vote for the new FISA legislation and unfortunately he made the only wrong choice of the three. His first choice was to vote ‘Nay’. This choice would have been, overwhelmingly, the right choice. This would have signaled his willingness to actively defend the Constitution by showing real leadership in making hard choices. Mr. Obama’s second choice, and one that even John McCain made, was to have abstained from voting. This would have let us all know that even in his desire to make political calculation he would not vote to inflict further damage on the Constitution. But he failed this test of leadership. He voted to assault the Constitution and deny accountability for those who have transgressed against the rule of law. This is an act I cannot forgive.
13th Amendment
It shocks my conscience that I, a man who is as white as the driven snow, should have more respect for the 13th Amendment than Barack Obama. It seems to me that Barack should oppose slavery and forced servitude with every fiber of his being. He has not. His support of any state that would, by law, end the choice of a woman to end her pregnancy at any time she deems fit constitutes his acceptance of forced servitude. For the state to take possession of a woman’s uterus, at any time, without paying her the national average daily rate for an ICU bed (a woman’s uterus provides every function found in an ICU ward and then some) or first convicting her of a crime relating to her pregnancy is the very definition of forced servitude. Yes….being pro-choice is being anti-slavery/forced servitude and Barack has made statements exactly on the wrong side of this issue.
With that I am declaring my support for Obama’s presidential candidacy officially on hold until Barack takes concrete steps to correct his path. At this time my intent is to leave the choice for president unchecked on my November ballot.
Mr.Obama
You voted in favor of a new FISA bill that constitutes a massive assault on the Constitution. You stepped dangerously close to an act of treason when you cast your 'Aye' vote. In case you need an adecation about how web based communications work here you go:
If I want to send an email from myself in the Sacramento area to someone in Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, or Las Vegas that message will not necessarily stay in the United States. It will choose the path of least resistance. This means that if the network paths in the U.S. are busy my message may be routed trhough Japan, Mexico, or Canada. Once my message leaves this country it becomes prey to this beast of a FISA bill. And say my message contains electoral strategy for the Democratic party then with the powers you just voted to give the President he will see this message. You can rest assured that if GW Bush sees something beneficial to the McCain campaign he will pass it on. And you can make all the legal arguements you want about how this bill has safeguards......RUBBISH!!! With people like David Addington and John Yoo around, Bush will have all the legal cover he thinks he needs to let him continue to run rough-shod over the Constitution until he leaves office and there will be no judicial review. And if he provides McCain with good election intelligence you may not be the President to clean up this mess. You're messing up Barack. It's time you return to the liberal values this country needs to correct the past seven and a half years of neo-con corruption and lawlessness. If you want to be the one to take the oath to protect and defend the Constitution in late January of next year you had better start protecting our rights NOW!!!!!
Barack,
Crooks & Liars says you made the following statement about abortion:
“I have repeatedly said that I think it’s entirely appropriate for states to restrict or even prohibit late-term abortions as long as there is a strict, well-defined exception for the health of the mother. Now, I don’t think that ‘mental distress’ qualifies as the health of the mother. I think it has to be a serious physical issue that arises in pregnancy, where there are real, significant problems to the mother carrying that child to term. Otherwise, as long as there is such a medical exception in place, I think we can prohibit late-term abortions.”
Well here's the reality, someone very cose to me nearly died while she was !!DELIVERING!! her first child. This lead me to the only appropriate opinion about abortion. It is not a man's life at stake nor does the life of a woman belong to the state. It is exclusively the province of a woman to choose to undertake the risk of pregnancy from conception to delivery. You, Mr. Obama, have but one roll in abortion politics and that is to take EVERY legal obstacle to a woman's RIGHT to choose out of the picture......that's it....there is no other roll for you. If you are going to move that much to the right I may as well vote for the Green Party candidate. I suggest you do some serious personal reflection as you move towards November and remember those who put you where you are. I cannot and will not tolerate the idea of state supremacy when it comes to a woman's choice. I can tell you that the women who supported Hillary Clinton will be paying very close attention to your statements on this subject.
