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CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR OBAMA QUESTIONS LEGALITY OF SLAVERY BAN
August 20, 2008


This week, Barack Obama's challenge is to select a running mate who's young,
hip, and whose accomplishments in life don't overshadow Obama's. Allow me to
suggest Kevin Federline.


The only thing we can be sure of is that Obama will choose someone who is the
polar opposite of all his advisers until now. In other words, it will be a
very, very white male who was probably proud of his country even before being
chosen as Obama's running mate.


Obama's got a lot of ground to make up following that performance last weekend
at the Saddleback presidential forum with pastor Rick Warren.


After seeing Obama defend infanticide with the glib excuse that the question
of when life begins is above his "pay-grade," Rev. Jeremiah Wright announced
that although he's known Obama for 30 years, he only recently became aware of
how extreme the senator's viewpoints were. Wright, after all, has his
reputation to consider.


Network heads responded by dashing off an urgent memo: During the main
presidential debates this fall, ask NO questions about abortion, ethics or
evil! Morality isn't the Democrats' forte.


Obama's defenders spin his abominable performance in the Saddleback forum by
saying he's just too smart to give a straight answer. As Rick Warren
charitably described Obama's debate performance: "He likes to nuance things
... He's a constitutional attorney." The constitutional lawyer "does nuance,"
as Bill Maher said on "Larry King Live," "and you saw how well that goes over
with the Rick Warren people."


If that's Obama's excuse, he ought to know a few basics about the
Constitution.


Did the big constitutional lawyer whose "nuance" is too sophisticated for Rick
Warren's audience see the letter his wife sent out on his behalf in 2004?


Michelle Obama denounced a federal law banning partial-birth abortion, writing
that "this ban on a legitimate medical procedure is clearly unconstitutional."


Clearly!


The Supreme Court later found the law not "unconstitutional," but
"constitutional" -- which I believe may have been the precise moment when
Michelle Obama realized just how ashamed she had always been of her country.


But most stunningly, when Warren asked Obama if he supported a constitutional
amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, Obama said he did
not "because historically -- because historically, we have not defined
marriage in our Constitution."


I don't care if you support a marriage amendment or not. That answer is
literally the stupidest thing I've ever heard anyone say. If marriage were
already defined in the Constitution, we wouldn't need an amendment, no?


Say, you know what else was "historically" not defined in the Constitution?
Slavery. The words "slavery" and "slave" do not appear once in the original
Constitution. The framers correctly thought it would sully the
freedom-enshrining document to acknowledge the repellent practice. (Much like
abortion!)


But in 1865, the 13th Amendment banned slavery throughout the land, in the
first constitutional phrase ever to mention "slavery": "Neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any
place subject to their jurisdiction."


On Obama's "historical" argument, they shouldn't have passed the 13th
Amendment because the Constitution "historically" had not mentioned slavery.


Do we know for a fact Barack Obama has read the Constitution? Obama's Facebook
profile: "I'm pro-infanticide, I love sunsets, and I don't get the 13th
Amendment!"


This is the guy who thinks he can condescend to Clarence Thomas? Asked at the
Saddleback forum which Supreme Court justice Obama would not have nominated,
Obama said ... the black one!


In Obama's defense, he said he thought Thomas wasn't experienced enough "at
the time." So I guess Obama thinks Thomas should have to "wait his turn."


By contrast, Obama has experience pouring out of those big ears of his. Asked
last year by Robin Roberts on ABC's "Good Morning America" about his lack of
experience in foreign policy, Obama took umbrage.


Swelling up his puny little chest, Obama said: "Well, actually, my experience
in foreign policy is probably more diverse than most others in the field. I'm
somebody who has actually lived overseas, somebody who has studied overseas. I
majored in international relations."


He actually cited his undergraduate major as a qualification to be president.


But on Saturday night, Obama said he didn't think Clarence Thomas was a
"strong enough jurist or legal thinker" to be put on the Supreme Court.


I bet Thomas has heard of the 13th Amendment!


COPYRIGHT 2008 ANN COULTER






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