the constitution via mccain

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Registered: 07-25-2008
the constitution via mccain
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Mon, 10-27-2008 - 11:34pm
the Constitution and fairly recently. At a speech given on 5/6/2008 @ 10:00 am in Salem, NC, John McCain made these statements concerning the Constitution:

"...Your kind invitation brings me here as a candidate for president of the United States, and anyone in that pursuit has plenty of promises to make and to keep. When it's all over, however, the next president will be compelled to make just one promise, in the same words that 42 others have spoken when the moment arrived. The framers of our Constitution had a knack for coming right to the point, and it shows in the 35-word oath that ends with a pledge to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution itself.

This is what we require and expect of every president, no matter what the agenda or loyalties of party. All the powers of the American presidency must serve the Constitution, and thereby protect the people and their liberties. For the chief executive or any other constitutional officer, the duties and boundaries of the Constitution are not just a set of helpful suggestions. They are not just guidelines, to be observed when it's convenient and loosely interpreted when it isn't. The clear powers defined by our Constitution, and the clear limits of power, lose nothing of their relevance with time, because the dangers they guard against are found in every time.

In America, the constitutional restraint on power is as fundamental as the exercise of power, and often more so. Yet the framers knew that these restraints would not always be observed. They were idealists, but they were worldly men as well, and they knew that abuses of power would arise and need to be firmly checked. Their design for democracy was drawn from their experience with tyranny. A suspicion of power is ingrained in both the letter and spirit of the American Constitution.

In the end, of course, their grand solution was to allocate federal power three ways, reserving all other powers and rights to the states and to the people themselves. The executive, legislative, and judicial branches are often wary of one another's excesses, and they should be. They seek to keep each other within bounds, and they are supposed to. And though you wouldn't always know it from watching the day-to-day affairs of modern Washington, the framers knew exactly what they were doing, and the system of checks and balances rarely disappoints."

Absolutely no comparison to Obama's radical view and desire to change it through Administrative law to forceable redistribute the of wealth.

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Registered: 09-26-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 11:41pm

It has disappointed in the last 8 years with the

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Registered: 09-08-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 12:25am

((((Absolutely no comparison to Obama's radical view and desire to change it through Administrative law to forceable redistribute the of wealth.)))))


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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 2:27am

McCain has publicly stated that the constitution establishes a Christian Nation. It does NO SUCH THING. Quite the opposite, the establishment of religion is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN by the first amendment.

And you trust the guy to uphold a document that he obviously either misunderstands, or will deliberately misinterpret to pander to theocrats ?????

Thanks, but no thanks.