Comments on: I Don’t Have To Wait On Sotomayor

By: Big Dog

Big Dog — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:12:47 +0000

Obama looks like curious George regardles of his color. However, I do not believe in treating blacks and whites differently and you all referred to Bush as a chimp and monkey for 8 years so any reference to Obama in those terms indicates he has attained the level you reserved for Bush.

By: Darrel

Darrel — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:22:24 +0000

Now you pretend a reference to Curious George, isn’t a reference to a monkey. Shameless dishonesty.

By: True Patriot

True Patriot — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:59:20 +0000

Adam stated that liberals call people racists when there is cause to.
I can name many cases in which people were called racists without cause.
It happens everyday with MSNBC and their reporting.
Jeanene Garofalo called the tea party supporters “racist rednecks”.
Yet, there were blacks, Mexicans, and even Asians at the tea parties all across the country.
I believe that some liberals are hypocrites.
It’s perfectly ok to sit down at a dinner and laugh about jokes that tell of the death of people that oppose you, but if you do it about a liberal, you are immediately called racists.
The Democratic party started the KKK.
They rely on votes from people of color to use the government programs which are utilized in an effort to bog down the government and create chaos in which the Socialists will build their government upon.
It’s all about a utopia in which everyone gets their fair share, and the rich provide it.
I think the Dems are the real racists.

By: Big Dog

Big Dog — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:34:08 +0000

The interesting thing about statistics is you can make them say what you want.

They give stats from 2004, why not from the past 20 or 30 years?

Also, among those stats, who appointed the judges on the courts overturned and were they liberals or conservatives.

Finally, none of the others are going to be on the Supreme Court. Pick the cream of the crop for that. If that many were overturned then there should be a few shining stars to pick from. They can make stats say what they want.

By: Darrel

Darrel — Fri, 29 May 2009 04:34:45 +0000

“Empathy is an emotion entirely inappropriate for the court,…”

DAR
Maybe we should just get a computer to make these decisions? Why do we even need humans at all? Just cut the baby in half. That’s fair after all.

Regarding this “overturn rate that isn’t supreme court material”, as I posted in another thread:

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“In fact, contrary to the claim that a reversal rate of 60 percent is “high,” data compiled by SCOTUSblog since 2004 show that the Supreme Court has reversed more than 60 percent of the federal appeals court cases it considered each year.

The Times reported that “[t]hree of the five majority opinions written by Judge Sotomayor for the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals and reviewed by the Supreme Court were reversed, providing a potent line of attack raised by opponents.” The article then quoted Wright’s assertion that Sotomayor’s “high reversal rate alone could be enough for us to pause and take a good look at her record.” But according to data compiled by SCOTUSblog, Sotomayor’s reported 60 percent reversal rate is lower than the overall Supreme Court reversal rate for all lower court decisions from the 2004 term through the present — both overall and for each individual Supreme Court term.”

http://mediamatters.org/research/200905270038

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:13:27 +0000

The facts are that someone should be judged on their merits and with a 60% overturn rate, well, that’s just not Supreme Court material, I don’t care if she’s latina, female, transgendered, tri- sexual, or what ever tingles your leg.
We should look for competence, and she doesn’t have it.
Empathy is an emotion entirely inappropriate for the court, which is supposed to treat plaintiff and defendant equally in deciding these cases. Empathy destroys that impartiality.

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:07:46 +0000

Gee, I guess in your case, racism is in the eye of the beholder- that comment referenced his EARS, or don’t you notice those open cab doors?

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:05:04 +0000

You are correct, Adam- upon re reading the Chronicle, I see the newsprint was smeared, and 60 looked like eighty- still a lot of mistakes there Adam.

By: Darrel

Darrel — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:42:26 +0000

“Racist is racist, Adam.”

This from a person that called Obama “curious George” yesterday. What hypocrisy.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:39:21 +0000

But she also states she does not think it impossible for a white man:

I, like Professor Carter, believe that we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group. Many are so capable. As Judge Cedarbaum pointed out to me, nine white men on the Supreme Court in the past have done so on many occasions and on many issues including Brown.