Paul floats Obama impeachment

[jefferson_dem]

:crazy:

Paul floats Obama impeachment
By: Dan Hirschhorn
October 3, 2011 03:52 PM EDT

Ron Paul said Monday that President Barack Obama’s targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki might be an impeachable offense.

Asked at a Manchester, N.H. town hall meeting about last week’s killing of the American-born Al Qaeda leader, the Texas congressman said impeachment would be “possible,” but that he wants to know more about how the administration “flouted the law.”

Paul called the killing a movement toward “tyranny.”

“I put responsibility on the president because this is obviously a step in the wrong direction,” Paul said. “We have just totally disrespected the Constitution.”

The comments once again put Paul at odds with his Republican rivals over foreign policy and the war on terror in the latest indication of how his foreign policy views stray far from Republican orthodoxy even in a GOP that’s taken on an increasingly isolationist bent. Candidates like Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney — who included the president in a list of people he commended in a statement released Friday — have generally been supportive of the killing. No one else in the field has spoken out against it.

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65035.html

[Lint Head]

1. Really? And ignoring a CIA communication saying Bin Laden to crash planes into buildings is not.

[bigwillq]

6. Folks had the chance to bring impeachment charges

against Bush/Cheney, et. al. These folks, though, chose to keep it "off the table".

[ProSense]

2. Please

don't get me started on that lunatic fuckwit.

[MADem]

3. Well, he's a racist asshole. This is unsurprising. Amazed he didn't float this sooner, the putz.

When will that idiot just take his ball and go home.

Maybe he can go hunting with Perry at "Knicker" Head Camp, the ass.

[NorthCarolina]

4. Did he ever speak out against US Torture policies in the WOT?

That would seem to me to also be an impeachable offense.

[Ter]

30. He did every day

He staunchly opposed the Bush/Cheney torture orders.

[Honeycombe8]

34. Okay, let's not get carried away. He didn't oppose them verbally "every day."

He wasn't in the news or on the phone with you every day, I'm sure.

[Ter]

36. Paul is in the news more now for a reason

He wasn't running for president during most of Bush's two terms. In 2007/2008 he was, but he was at 2%. Today he heads the House chairmanship of the Federal Reserve, and he's running about 12% nationally (good for third or fourth place). So what he says now is a little more reported than what he said in 2002, and 2008. I just found out myself he supported impeaching Clinton in 1998 - but not for the BJ. For wars in Bosnia.

[Honeycombe8]

37. It's beginning to sound like he just runs around wanting to impeach everyone. nt

[CakeGrrl]

5. Anyone wonder how long it will take until

some of the left says "For once, I agree with Paul"...

:eyes:

[flamingdem]

9. Ron Paul for President!

lol .. at least he'd be easy to beat.

[Bobbie Jo]

13. Too late...

Already "floated" in GD.

Paraphrasing...in relation to the action: "this is an impeachable offense."

[Ter]

31. For a lot more than once, I agree with him

He's right on many issues.

[Mr Deltoid]

38. He is honest on many issues, but not correct

He is dishonest and lies to his followers on many other issues, like healthcare.

[steve2470]

7. And did Paul say anything about GWB's very impeachable offenses ?

*crickets*

Thought so.

What President Obama did is not impeachable. If Paul is that irate about it, he should draft a bill.

[AnneD]

8. Yes he has.....

it was the Dems and Obama that took impeachment off the table, but then you wouldn't care to hear that nugget of truth.

[Freddie Stubbs]

12. Lack of Democratic support never stopped Ron Paul from supporting impeachment of Clinton

[steve2470]

14. I stand corrected...

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message367202/pg1

Paul said that Bush should be impeached not under the umbrella of partisan vengeance but for ceaselessly breaking the laws of the land.

(link to Jones Report on this site... I think it's not ok on DU to link to it )

and BTW, I already knew the nugget of truth about Democrats and President Obama. So much for assuming about me.

[AnneD]

40. I did not assume about you in particular......

but from the other posts, there are folks that think that no one else, Paul in particular, was calling for Bush's impeachment.

[Blue_Tires]

17. Convenient...because it's not like there was a GOP house majority

anytime between 2000-08...:sarcasm:

[AnneD]

39. That is why...

those tired old Dem Party excuses don't wash. What is the point of a Dem majority if you don't use it. I think Jon Stewart said something like that.

[Tesha]

21. Practically *ANYTHING* is impeachable.

Is it convictable? Well, that's a political
question: can the Republicans get enough of
the fake Democrats to go along with them?

The fake Democrats certainly don't go along
with *US* very often!

Tesha

[Ter]

33. It amazes me that there are people who think Paul defended Bush

He hated Bush so much he didn't even vote for him in 2004. In the early to mid 2000's? He attacked him daily. He's a right-leaning libertarian. He is pretty consistent. Free Republic seems to hate him too.

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. Ron Paul cosponsored articles of impeachment against Clinton BEFORE the Lewinsky scandal broke:

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=105_cong_bills&docid=f:hr304ih.txt.pdf

[n2doc]

11. Not gonna happen

The Repubs want this power just as much as Obama does.

[Tarheel_Dem]

15. Well that does it. Sign me up!

:rofl:

[Blue_Tires]

16. Translation: Paul still whoring for headlines

encouraged by last week's little media boost...

Just for fun, someone needs to call him on that bluff...ohmyfuckinggod PLEASE impeach a U.S. president for ordering a terrorist eliminated on the other side of the world...

[watercolors]

18. Such a miserable A-hole!!!!

[msanthrope]

19. I wonder what Ron Paul's DU name is....nt

[Zoeisright]

20. Fuck you, Paul. And your miserable spawn too.

That is all.

[Pisces]

22. It's floating in his sceptic tank with the rest of his shit.

[YellowCosmicSun]

23. we can only pray Kucinich doesn't join in.

[quaker bill]

24. There is no better way

to make the idea seem insane.

[geek tragedy]

25. Bring. It. On. nt

[MH1]

26. File it, f*ckwad.

Bring it on. Paul will be so buried if he tries this.

[pmorlan1]

27. I agree

I don't agree with Ron Paul on a lot of things but what President Obama did IS against our Constitution. Take off your Party hat and put on your Constitutional hat, people.

[ProSense]

29. Hmmmm?

"Take off your Party hat and put on your Constitutional hat, people."

Treason?

Still, take of the hypocrisy hat, which is evidently squeezing Paul's small mind, and deal with the facts.

[saras]

28. The only way to understand him is to assume he doesn't know what ANYTHING means...

he just makes noises come out of his mouth to elicit responses from others, like a malicious but very intelligent mechanical parrot.

While it may not have been the best thing to do for the country long-term, it is clearly and unequivocally a popular mainstream opinion. Clinton's blowjob was relatively trivial, but no one was out there (where were you, progressives?) saying "Yes! That was a GOOD blowjob." With so much of the country saying "Good riddance", it's hard to picture impeachment getting very far.

[Honeycombe8]

32. Oh, bull. He's aiming for headlines, is all. And I guess he's got 'em.

When you're not at the head of the pack, you have to say things to get your name out there.

But the substance of what he said is total bull.

[golfguru]

35. Dr Paul is certifiable n/m