I tuned in to the Democratic debate tonight in hopes there would be some comedy as Hillary!â„¢ and Edwards bicker like school children over who has flip-flopped the most. In that regard I was not disappointed. One thing about the debate was somewhat surprising though. Somewhere in the middle, Wolf asked the candidates if standing up for human rights in Pakistan is more important than national security. After some lengthy answers from the other candidates, Senator Dodd, who apparently lost track of the original question, basically said that defending the country is more important than defending the Constitution.
So, after years of Democrats bashing Bush for violating civil liberties in the name of security, Dodd feels the same way? Now, maybe it’s just me, but this is rather unsettling coming from someone whose father was responsible for passing a bill based on a direct translation of the Nazis’ 1938 Law on Weapons.
Oh, yea, and Hillary!™ agreed with Dodd that security trumps freedom. Umm, Senators, methinks Benjamin Franklin would like a word with you…
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.