If Obama’s campaign is anything like his presidency, then look for the prison population to grow exponentially. First, he calls for criminal prosecution in Missouri of anyone who runs a TV ad that his campaign claims is false. (I suspect that his campaign would consider anything less than a declaration of Obama as Messiah would be considered not true.)
Second, we see his campaign now trying to shut down ads in Pennsylvania made by the NRA, again appealing to regulation of television and the airwaves.
Third, his supporter, Al Gore, is calling for violent shutdowns of coal and oil-fired power plants, and the arrest of executives of power companies for “securities fraud” because the plants don’t sequester CO2.
Yes, I understand what Laurence is saying about the Republicans and I agree, but I will say that I fear an Obama presidency as much as I fear McCain’s. At least McCain has not called for arrest and imprisonment of those who disagree with him — at least not yet.
8:23 pm on September 28, 2008