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Kmiec on Obama (Again)

A while back, former Constitutional Legal Counsel to Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush (and former member of a pro-Mitt Romney lawyers’ commtitee) Doug Kmiec reaffirmed his support for Barack Obama, explaining that Obama will:

• Transcend the politics of division – so well illustrated on any given day by the unfortunately base tactics of the Clinton or McCain campaigns (see the recent GOP ad in North Carolina once again dredging up Reverend Wright)


• Commit us toward a course of environmental stewardship that will not be dependent upon fossil fuel


• Focus tax and health policy reform in favor of the average working family and the poor


• Reaffirm an American foreign policy respectful of international standard


• And end an unjust, preemptive war – another obvious life issue—that deprives families of some of our most self-sacrificing yet often least advantaged young men and women and drains our economy in a 3 trillion dollar fashion, crippling our practical ability to be the force for human good that Americans want their country to be.

Looking at this list, one can’t help but wonder why Kmiec was ever a Republican. It’s indisinguishable from the list a lifelong Democrat might offer.

In any event, when I read that first absurdly Messianic bullet point, I wish I could sit Kmiec down and make him watch Obamatopia.