The Coming Obama Thugocracy

National Review by Michael Barone | Nov. 12, 2008 (Opinion)
Attempts to shut down political speech have become routine for liberals.

I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors,” Barack Obama told a crowd in Elko, Nev. “I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.” Actually, Obama supporters are doing a lot more than getting into people’s faces. They seem determined to shut people up.

That’s what Obama supporters, alerted by campaign emails, did ... Full Story »

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 by Chris Finnie - Nov. 13, 2008

I've been reading almost this identical argument a lot lately. So it's hardly enterprising or informative, and certainly not original. Rather it seems to be the conservative talking points of the week, adequately written. It would have been more persuasive if he had, for example, cited the union argument for card checks, given documented examples of why it will work as he says--the nurses union flap of last year comes to mind immediately--and then made his argument.

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