TexMac
09-30-2011, 07:45 PM
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/09/president-obama-executioner-in-chief/245965/
(http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/09/president-obama-executioner-in-chief/245965/)
President Obama has perhaps forever changed the relationship between the United States government and its citizens, setting a precedent as damaging as anything a modern president has done, and the appropriate reaction, whatever one's partisan or ideological orientation, is shock and anger at his hubris and imprudence. Depending on the GOP nominee in 2012, I may well decide that I can't vote for him or her in good conscience. But today, as Obama celebrates the extra-legal assassination of an American, and sets the precedent that the president can kill citizens without due process if he or she pronounces them a terrorist, I know that I cannot in good conscience cast a vote to re-elect him. If you're even a little bit of a civil libertarian, and this didn't cost Obama your vote, I'd ask you to ponder this question: What transgression would?
(http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/09/president-obama-executioner-in-chief/245965/)
(http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/09/president-obama-executioner-in-chief/245965/)
President Obama has perhaps forever changed the relationship between the United States government and its citizens, setting a precedent as damaging as anything a modern president has done, and the appropriate reaction, whatever one's partisan or ideological orientation, is shock and anger at his hubris and imprudence. Depending on the GOP nominee in 2012, I may well decide that I can't vote for him or her in good conscience. But today, as Obama celebrates the extra-legal assassination of an American, and sets the precedent that the president can kill citizens without due process if he or she pronounces them a terrorist, I know that I cannot in good conscience cast a vote to re-elect him. If you're even a little bit of a civil libertarian, and this didn't cost Obama your vote, I'd ask you to ponder this question: What transgression would?
(http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/09/president-obama-executioner-in-chief/245965/)