Those against the death penalty need to remember something about Obama [View All]

[Hippo_Tron]

Despite the fact that he criticized today's ruling by the Supreme Court regarding the death penalty for child rapists, he will appoint the kind of justices that voted in the majority.

I'm 100% against the death penalty in any and all cases. But I also recognize that it is a huge political football and the majority of this country does support it.

It is important to remember that federal executions are extremely rare. Put another way, in terms of legislative and pardon powers, the President of the United States has little if any opportunity to stop executions.

The best way for the President of the United States to affect death penalty policy is through judges. And Barack Obama is solid on the type of judges that he will appoint. McGramps will appoint more fascists like Scalia and Alito and that means more absurd death penalty laws like this one will be allowed to stand.

So while I don't much care for Obama's rhetoric on today's ruling, I can live with it because on the actual substantive part of the issue, he is right.