Jihad obviously doesn’t mean violence against others, Islam is the religion of peace.

Leftists should be rejoicing that President Obama is a Jihadist, under the definition given to the term by liberal intellectuals and Islam apologists. He is doing his utmost to change America into a better place.

So for all those liberal commentators who argue that President Obama is not a jihadist, please turn in your political correctness cards and register yourselves as evil fascist hatemongers for demeaning the religion of peace.

Racists.

ChrisTS:
You are a deeply twisted man.

If it’s twisted to want others to share your pleasure in an ocean breeze, a child’s laugh or a demented comment thread, I plead guilty.

You people are out of your minds. And this the comment thread of one of the most prominent legal blogs in the country.

To take one teensy, tiny example, do you guys know the list of presidents that have bowed before various foreign leaders since, oh, World War II? Would you believe.. um.. all of them? The difference between them and Obama is a) you’re aware of this one and b) OBAMA’S A SCARY MUSLIM AND WHEN HE DOES IT IT MEANS HE LOVES JIHAD !!!11X!!!1! I’m really not going to go find the link that bothered to document this in exhaustive detail, pictures included, because it’s weeks old and you’re too fringe-y to bother. But pretty much every item on this sad list is as based on that kind of embarassing ignorance.

God help us if Obama was pictured sucking face with the Saudi ambassador like, oh, I don’t know, our last president.

Leo Marvin: How much would it cost to set this thread up with its own website and make it permanent? Whatever it is, put me down for a few bucks.

You are a deeply twisted man.

Leo Marvin: Yes, but of what? 

The Olin Fellowship in Conspiracy and Economics.

:-)

Mithras: Is this a parody? I’m thinking not, but it’s hard to be sure. I think the typo rate might be high even for a real wingnut. Also, “pearls of truth” seems over the top. Is it real?

Consider this your introduction to Poe’s law

THis thread is a perfect case in point.

Anonymous: Because people who don’t agree with me are simply insane, and should not be seen!

Yes, that’s exactly it. And their views are really reasonable, too. Get a life, freeper.

You’re right that we should not impute malign motives to policies we don’t like when there’s no evidence of ill intent. My point is only this: the results of those motives are what is important, and it’s those results that we have to live with.

The results of Obama’s policies are likely to be even more baleful than those of Carter’s policies.

There’s a reason that there is an old saying: “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.”

Is Obama leading us down the (figurative) road to Hell? He may not mean to, but his intentions DO NOT matter. What DOES matter is what we do about it.

Hale Adams:
Yes, but Jimmy Carter’s policies aided and abetted the actions of the ayatollahs and the Sandinistas. Obama’s policies are aiding and abetting the actions of the jihadis. You may have just made a distinction without a difference, Alan.

The distinction is important. Outcomes and not intentions define the worth of policies. But intentions are important in another regard: defining the character of the individual in question. It’s not ethical to say that a person is what he/she is not. Also, you can’t deal with someone effectively if your perception of that individual is flawed. You do not deal with a terrorist sympathizer (e.g. Lynne Stewart) the same way you deal with someone who unwittingly abets terrorists (e.g. Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres).

It says nearly everything that needs to be said that a seemingly reasonable person would feel the need to say this. It says everything else that needs to be said that the seemingly reasonable person would feel the need to hedge and say that it is only his “view” that there is no evidence that the President of the United States is a jihadi.

Guesterson: Jesus Jumpin’ Christ, stop with these kinds of posts. I know they draw eyeballs, but it’s bringing down the level of discourse here. Professor Volokh, please help.

Because people who don’t agree with me are simply insane, and should not be seen!

45: His Wonness regularly demonstrates:

***Antagonism to American traditions (won’t place hand on heart during National Anthem, thinks he’s better than all Americans).

Is this a parody? I’m thinking not, but it’s hard to be sure. I think the typo rate might be high even for a real wingnut. Also, “pearls of truth” seems over the top. Is it real?

Sarcastro: Sociopath OR Jihadi?I think Obama can totally be both!But like some kind of ninja-idiot-savant, his stupidity does not keep him from cunningly hiding that he’s also an atheist, and a Nazi, and a Stalinist, and a Maoist.Also a Marxist, and a fascist of course, as all libs are.The point is he’s both stupid, evil AND clever enough to be an existential threat to America.

But you conveniently ignore why this is a FAIL. Obama’s obviously evil and Marxist enough to be an Islam, but he’s totally too arrogant, probably about something in his hidden medical records.

His Wonness regularly demonstrates:

***Antagonism to American traditions (won’t place hand on heart during National Anthem, thinks he’s better than all Americans).

***Antagonism to white Americans (with prejudice he proclaimed the Cambridge police acted “Stupidly” before he knew the situation; 20+ years as a disciple of a white-hating preacher).

***Antagonism towards American tax-paying citizens (covert taxes such as Health Care, Cap and Trade, devaluing the dollar, making out children pay off our debt, not doing anything rational to help the recession like cutting taxes).

***Antagonism towards American allies (Britain, Australia, Israel), while currying favor with American adversaries (Russia, Cuba, Venezeula, Iran).

***Antagonism towards the American system of governance (37 czars without any oversight by Congress, many of whom have Socialist, Communist, or Fascist statements of desire; seeking international treaties to get around the Constitution).

***Antagonism towards American Business (vilifying insurance companies, banks, Big Oil, pharmaceutical companies, physicians, automobile companies, small business owners with high taxation, etc. while promoting his Union allies).

Only someone hallucinating on his kool-aid would NOW be unable to see that when he said he would “fundamentaly transform America” tearing down all that has made America the beacon to the world, and turn us into Argentina, or worse, Cuba, etc.
This isn’t a cesspool! Here we are casting pearls of truth! Too bad you are as swine…

I also agree disclose the birth certificate and the remainder of the records that other presidents have disclosed.

Amazing. Absolutely amazing and frightening vitriol based on absolutely nothing.

byomtov: our poor country is in deep trouble when by his own statements and policy actions, the president can draw such a question and it cannot be automatically laughed away.Our poor country is in trouble when there is a substantial number of people who do not automatically laugh this away, and one of our major political parties caters to these nutballs. It has nothing to do with Obama’s statements and policy actions.

You’re saying the Democrats need to work harder to distance themselves from people like Michael Moore, “Van” Jones, Reverend “God Damn America” Wright, etc.?

People have misread his bowing problem. It’s not that he wants to express the inferiority of the US to the likes of Saudi Arabia or the Japanese emperor.

It’s that he sees himself as the messiah and, like Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, he is attempting the same by bowing. Of course the disciples protested that they were not worthy. Obama is not getting the same reaction, and that confuses him.

It is doubtful that he entertains the purpose of Jihad. He probably intends to humble our nation so that we are mere participants rather than leaders on the world stage.

The extent of arrogance that he possesses can easily produce self-deception and self-righteousness. In that sense, he is a delusional holy warrior for Utopian goals of economic justice through redistribution and reparation.

One portion that didn’t make the cut was my equating the allegation of “jihad?” with the earlier claims of some mean-spirited extremists that President Bush was as evil as Hitler.

Wow. Film at 11:00. The lame stream media editing out rationality. Who’d have thunk it.