He was a masterful swing vote getter. Do you think Obama’s cookie cutter activist nominees will be able to hold a candle to that? Hell no!

 Think of all the 5-4 decisions that have vexed Constitutional constructionists. The ruling enabling the EPA to classify C02 as a pollutant, for one.

 Gone!

Barack Obama said so, by way of saying Sarah Palin is no expert on nukes.

 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/08/obama-palins-expert-nuclear-strategy/

 [QUOTE]“Last I checked, Palin’s not an expert on nukes,” Obama told ABC News. “If the secretary of defense and chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff are comfortable, I’ll take my advice from them and not Sarah Palin.[/QUOTE]

 Wouldn’t President Palin have a Secretary of Defense and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to dispense their advice, as Obama’s has.

 And, Obama actually ignored his Secreatry of Defense’s advice, so he lied.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1873887,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

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Time:

The latest U.S. nuclear showdown doesn’t involve any foreign enemy. Instead, it pits President Barack Obama against his Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, and concerns the question of whether America needs a new generation of nuclear warheads. While serving under former President Bush, Gates had repeatedly called for the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program to be put into operation, because the nation’s current nukes — mostly produced in the 1970s and 1980s — are growing so old that their destructive power may be in question.

“The Reliable Replacement Warhead is not about new capabilities, but about safety, reliability and security,” Gates said in a speech in the week before last November’s election. And in an article in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, released in early December after Gates had been tapped by Obama to stay on at the Pentagon, Gates repeated that refrain. “Even though the days of hair-trigger superpower confrontation are over, as long as other nations possess the bomb and the means to deliver it, the United States must maintain a credible strategic deterrent,” he wrote. “Congress needs to do its part by funding the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program — for safety, for security, and for a more reliable deterrent.” The RRW basically trades away explosive force for greater assurance that the new warheads would work predictably in the absence of tests, which the U.S. has refrained from conducting for nearly two decades to help advance non-proliferation goals.

Read the whole story: Time

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