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One good reason to vote against Obama

June 26, 2008

The Supreme court narrowly (5-4) upheld our right to bear arms in a ruling today.  As Ben Winograd explained so eloquently, “It doesn’t take a mathematician to recognize the narrow margin in this case.  Replace any one of the five justices in the majority with a more liberal appointment - many of whom will be waiting in line if Barack Obama wins the presidency - and the outcome would have flipped.  Americans would have lost the individual right to keep and bear arms.  For some, this may be a welcome change, but for many of us, it’s the sort of thought that makes the hairs on the back of our necks stand up.  Of course, there’s now precedent going forward, which helps.  But this litigation is, as discussed above, only the beginning.  Thus, the close margin and ideological division of this decision will likely serve as a reminder that, like it or not, whoever occupies the White House for the next four or eight years will, through his appointments, directly impact Second Amendment rights for perhaps the next century.  This will no doubt have at least some effect as Americans cast their ballots in November.”

Voting for McCain makes my skin crawl.  We (conservatives), held our breath and voted for Bush and instead of supporting conservative values, he increased the size of government, increased federal bureaucracy and with the help of Congress managed to increase our deficit more than Roosevlet and Reagan did (and they were fighting the Nazis and the Soviets).  I just can’t do it again.  Of course I had no idea how narrow the margin had become in the Supreme Court - five to four to support a right clearly enunciated in the Constitution?  The court has no problem upholding the ’separation of church and state concept’, despite the fact that it isn’t in the Constitution.  Ben Winograd explains, “In reading Justice Scalia’s opinion, there is an overwhelming theme that to interpret the Second Amendment as not protecting an individual right would gut the amendment of meaning and defy logic.  It is, after all, the Second Amendment, not the two hundredth.  This is not an obscure line buried among thousands of pages of text.  It is inconceivable that the framers would have given it the priority they did, placing it ahead of so many other critical rights, if they only meant it to apply to militias as the dissenting justices suggest.”

I think the Constitution is important and we need to figure out a way to seat a court that believes in it as much as the founders did.  Obama has unequivolcaly indicated he does not support the second amendment and his likely court appointments won’t either.  I sure wish I had someone I could vote for, instead of someone to vote against…

Written by Alexander Muse · Filed Under Blog, Politics 

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