I’m sure by now you’ve read about Obama’s attempt to stifle political speech when he disagrees with it and now he’s attempting to use the state to do it for him in Missouri. Governor Blunt of Missouri responds:

“St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.

“What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.
“This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson. I can think of nothing more offensive to Jefferson’s thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights. The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.

This is part of a trend with Obama, he’s tried to intimidate the authors of books about him, he’s sent letters to the Justice department over a third party about Ayers, and he sent threatening letters to the NRA.
I can’t see how doing this helps Obama, we have the first amendment for the very purpose of political speech. I can’t see Americans voting for a bully who wants to suppress their right to speak out against him.
BTW, I wonder if the “Obama truth squad” is willing to do anything about Obama’s lying ads.