Re: Every once in a while, McCain shows he's pretty smrat
- From: rich hammett <bubbarichau@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 23:39:09 -0500
Minun olisi pitänyt tietää, olisi pitänyt tietää,
olisi pitänyt tietää KUKA SINÄ OLET, John Rogers:
McCain forgot to mention what he actually said about
Alito at the time.
rich
"Senators Obama and Clinton have very different ideas from my own.
They are both lawyers themselves, and don't seem to mind at all when
fundamental questions of social policy are preemptively decided by
judges instead of by the people and their elected representatives. Nor
have they raised objections to the unfair treatment of judicial
nominees.
"For both Senator Obama and Senator Clinton, it turned out that not
even John Roberts was quite good enough for them. Senator Obama in
particular likes to talk up his background as a lecturer on law, and
also as someone who can work across the aisle to get things done. But
when Judge Roberts was nominated, it seemed to bring out more the
lecturer in Senator Obama than it did the guy who can get things done.
He went right along with the partisan crowd, and was among the 22
senators to vote against this highly qualified nominee. And just where
did John Roberts fall short, by the Senator's measure? Well, a justice
of the court, as Senator Obama explained it -- and I quote -- should
share "one's deepest values, one's core concerns, one's broader
perspectives on how the world works, and the depth and breadth of
one's empathy."
"These vague words attempt to justify judicial activism -- come to
think of it, they sound like an activist judge wrote them. And
whatever they mean exactly, somehow Senator Obama's standards proved
too lofty a standard for a nominee who was brilliant, fair-minded, and
learned in the law, a nominee of clear rectitude who had proved more
than the equal of any lawyer on the Judiciary Committee, and who today
is respected by all as the Chief Justice of the United States.
Somehow, by Senator Obama's standard, even Judge Roberts didn't
measure up. And neither did Justice Samuel Alito. Apparently, nobody
quite fits the bill except for an elite group of activist judges,
lawyers, and law professors who think they know wisdom when they see
it -- and they see it only in each other."
John Rogers
AU Class of 1985
The Al Del Greco of Atlanta
"What I think particularly angered me was his suggestion somehow
that my previous denunciation of his remarks were somehow political
posturing." (Barrack Obama referring to the one particular remark
made by Jeremiah Wright that was *finally* able to make him angry.)
--
-to reply, it's hot not warm
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