Empathy & Supreme Court Justices

redcliffsw · May 21, 2009, 05:21:13 PM

Does Obama want more new roles for a U.S. Supreme Court justice?

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=98586

Varmit · May 21, 2009, 07:23:17 PM

You know, it really surprises me sometimes (although by now it shouldn't) just how unqualified obama is. I would like for a reporter to ask him if he has actually ever read the Constitution.

Diane Amberg · May 21, 2009, 07:57:10 PM

I read that article and found the comparison to football and referees very odd. Football is a game, nothing more...players try to cheat....referees make mistakes too. Our Constitution is 'way more important than that!

Varmit · May 21, 2009, 08:02:44 PM

Let me ask you this diane, if it is the job of supreme court justices to interpet and apply the law equally, why do they need to empathize with young teenage mothers, blacks, gays etc? The law should apply equally to all regardless of circumstance.

Diane Amberg · May 21, 2009, 09:08:30 PM

It would sure seem so. I'm not sure what he was after.

redcliffsw · May 22, 2009, 06:13:27 AM

Here's a good read from a another black.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=97147

Diane Amberg · May 22, 2009, 09:06:55 AM

Eeh, I still don't care for throwing "traitor" around so easily. Bush's Rep's should have looked into Souter much more closely if they wanted someone who would toe the party line. From that point of view, he was a big mistake. He swore to uphold the constitution, not the president. I still don't like the name calling and labeling. With some of these writers, to me, it's as if they don't think their message will be as strong or persuasive without the nasty rhetoric. I guess its just me.

sixdogsmom · May 22, 2009, 09:14:31 AM

It's not 'just you' Diane; these messages are nasty for the most part. I watched some of Ann Coulter last night, and her arguments were just a long string of insults, and not one constructive thing. It is a big mistake to think that hurling insult after insult is constructive. I do not like to watch or read anyone/ anything that is so completely negative.

Diane Amberg · May 22, 2009, 09:23:08 AM

Yes, I can't imagine what Souter living with his mother and not having his own wife and children had to do with anything. Were we supposed to read between the lines and assume the man is gay? Or what?

jerry wagner · May 22, 2009, 10:09:37 AM

And how would it be relevant that he is gay? He is just as qualified of an individual irregardless of his sexual preference if that were the case.