Personally, I don't think 72 is old. Now John McCain may be old at 72, but he's an aberration. In more ways than one.
I also don't think McCain loves Chief Justice John Roberts. I think John McCain wants to be prezident and thus he makes truly stupid statements about John Roberts and the fact that Obama didn't vote to confirm Mr. Roberts. McCain is blatantly transparent as he tries to show the Christian Right that he, John McCain, is really as nasty as they are!
So John said, if elected prezident of Amerika, he would appoint judges "in the mold of Roberts and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito." In other words, they'd be judges who would vote against allowing women to control their own bodies in the belief the government knows better than they do what's right or wrong for them; they'd be anti-abortion. (Did you get that, James Dobson?)
Then McCain put his foot down and stepped right in the ca-ca. (Maybe he is a bit senile?) He berated Barack Obama for voting against Bush's nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court. He used that "elitist" brush again by painting Obama as one of those who think that the only people worthy of sitting on the Supreme's bench is "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."
McCain isn't smart enough to have written that nasty little rant. It sounds Rovian, actually, and it could be for Rove is surely hiding in the darkest cracks of the haunted Republican house with the other cockroaches!
Too bad for John but that smear isn't gonna fly! McCain is so out of it he doesn't realize that one really good reason to vote for Obama IS THE FACT THAT HE VOTED AGAINST THE NOMINATION OF JOHN ROBERTS!
Hopefully, most Americans today realize that when Republicans try to tar judges that refuse their right wing agenda with the word, "activist," they are wrong by 180 degrees.
The truly "activist" judges are those Republican appointees who ignore or change the Constitution to conform to their party's current political platform or the fundamentalist religious beliefs of their party's base; judges like those, who in 2000, ignored the will of the people and the rights of the people to appoint George W. Bush prezident.
What we absolutely don't need are more "activist" justices like Roberts, or Alito, or Thomas! What we desperately need are moral, ethical justices who will carry out their solemn promise to abide by the Constitution of the United States.
Once again, John McCain just doesn't get it!
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We have not had a real debate re the qualifications for such an important job in decades. We do not even seek the most qualified legal scholars. We worry about the various litmus tests for a lifetime job that directly affects every one of us forever. That is not smart. Our Supreme Court should be the last bastion of protection against the possible excesses of the other two branches as they are immune to public opinion once selected to the bench. The next President will probably get to pick a few new Justices but since the process is flawed, we could get partisan candidates again. There must be a better system but no politician really wants to make any real changes at this time. I think the USA will be a very different place twenty or so years from now. I am not sure it will be better.
Bob Poris
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