Obama Disagrees With Supreme Court Decision

As I predicted that Bush will, and now has, led us into a war, Obama, should he become President, will not allow any reasoned relief for registered sex offenders under the Adam Walsh Act, and will use his veto powers when disagreed with.

6-26-2008 National:

Senator Barack Obama told a press conference today that he disagreed with a Supreme Court decision outlawing the execution of child rapists.

Mr. Obama, whose position on the death penalty has changed over the years (his staff prefers the verb “evolved”), said that child rape qualifies as “heinous” and therefore as subject to the death penalty.

“I disagree with the decision; I have said repeatedly that I think the death penalty should be applied in very narrow circumstance for the most egregious of crimes.” Obama told forty or so reporters. “I think that the rape of a small child, six or eight years old, is a heinous crime, and if a state makes a decision under narrow limited well defined circumstance the death penalty is at least potentially applicable,

In 1996, Mr. Obama went on the record opposing the death penalty and he wrote in his most recent memoir, “The Audacity of Hope” that the penalty “does little to deter crime.” By the time he ran for the U.S. Senate in 2004, he had come out in favor of the death penalty, saying that society has the right to express its outrage at heinous crimes.

-Is his purpose so different than those who take stances to get votes, as most have on sex offender issues? Votes control the laws, and necessary pretexts will underlie those votes.

At the same time, he said the system of death penalty justice was so flawed that the nation should declare a moratorium on executions, such as that imposed in Illinois by Republican Gov. George Ryan. ..The Rest of His Comments.. by Michael Powell