Obama’s Ridiculous Call for Speech Police

Former President Barack Obama announces funding for the construction and renovation of community health centers and the implementation of electronic health records, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the White House in Washington, D.C., December 9, 2009. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
The ex-president shows again he’s a deeply unserious man with an outlandishly un-American proposal.

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F un game: Imagine President Obama’s litany of bitter grievances expressed not in the imitation deepthink of middlebrow magazines and their compassion for good government, but in the somewhat earthier demotic of his successor. Take this example, from Obama’s recent BBC comments to promote his third book on his favorite subject:

There are millions of people who subscribed to the notion that Joe Biden is a socialist, who subscribed to the notion that Hillary Clinton was part of an evil cabal that was involved in pedophile rings. I think at some point it’s going to require a combination of regulation and standards within

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