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It's never too early to start campaigning, even for 2012 and the only way you can ever really affect true change is by getting enough people involved that are willing to work towards that goal.
Glad to see people doing something rather than just sitting on their haunches.
Cmon Donald we will need everyone! The media will want to bury this but if we can get 100,000 they wont be able to ignore it.
As much as I hate to say it we need four more years of this to get people to really embrace true change like Paul represents.
I want Obama to win so all this fawning turns into just four more years of the SOS. THEN Paul can come get the Republican nomination and run away with the election. Only then will things really start to change.
I want Obama to win so all this fawning turns into just four more years of the SOS.
Here is the problem with that, 21. The next president may potentially name up to 3 supreme court justices in the next term. Those are lifetime appointments and can't be reversed.
I am going to hold my nose and cast my ballot for McCain even though I don't like his politics very much.
Here is the problem with that, 21. The next president may potentially name up to 3 supreme court justices in the next term. Those are lifetime appointments and can't be reversed.
I am going to hold my nose and cast my ballot for McCain even though I don't like his politics very much.
This is an important point, jw. Which SCJ's are expected to be "replaced" during the next 4 years? It's an important distinction. For example, if Ginsberg or Stevens are expected to be leaving the bench, then I don't have much problem with them being replaced with other left-leaning justices. On the other hand if three conservatives justices were to be replaced with three liberals, that could be problematic.
I don't want the bench to be skewed too far in either direction, conservative or liberal. Balance is more desirable, IMO.
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-Samuel Langhorne Clemens
"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges."
All that rhetoric may be appealing to some, but it is the job of the court to interpret the laws that are written. Not to make judgments based on their personal beliefs.
If there are injustices to the poor, single mothers, African-Americans, gay or disabled, or old, then legislate it and I will support it. Don't have 9 people decide it.
"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges."
All that rhetoric may be appealing to some, but it is the job of the court to interpret the laws that are written. Not to make judgments based on their personal beliefs.
If there are injustices to the poor, single mothers, African-Americans, gay or disabled, or old, then legislate it and I will support it. Don't have 9 people decide it.
Well said jw! Well said!
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"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges."
All that rhetoric may be appealing to some, but it is the job of the court to interpret the laws that are written. Not to make judgments based on their personal beliefs.
If there are injustices to the poor, single mothers, African-Americans, gay or disabled, or old, then legislate it and I will support it. Don't have 9 people decide it.
I dont mind a judge who is a bit activist - that can be a very good thing
but choosing the judges that are the most activist they are is not a very good thing
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