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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 02:19 PM
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"it's about the white house"
even the NYT gets it:

Editorial
It’s About the White House


Like many Americans, we have been intrigued and often exasperated by the long-running Democratic primary and the ever smaller-bore spats between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. So we are thankful to Senator John McCain for reminding us Tuesday what this year’s presidential race really is about.



On a day when Mr. Obama won a decisive victory in North Carolina and Mrs. Clinton eked out a win in Indiana, Mr. McCain spoke about his judicial philosophy. He is determined to move a far too conservative and far too activist Supreme Court and federal judiciary even further and more actively to the right.

Mr. McCain predictably criticized liberal judges, vowed strict adherence to the Founders’ views and promised to appoint more judges in the mold of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito. That is just what the country does not need.

Since President Bush chose Justices Roberts and Alito, the Court has ordered Seattle and Louisville to scrap voluntary school integration, protected employers who illegally mistreat their workers, and constrained women’s right to choose and voters’ right to vote.

Mr. McCain did not mention, of course, how the Roberts-led Court blithely overruled Congress by nullifying a key part of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. He did wax nostalgic about what “the basic right of property” has meant “since the founding of America.” (He did not mention that in 1789 many women could not own property and African-Americans were property, but he did criticize the idea that values evolve over time.)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/opinion/07wed1.html?ref=opinion
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electropop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 03:17 PM
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1. Love that last line!
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 03:17 PM
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2. . . . .
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cliss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 05:15 PM
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3. Isn't that cute?
We should be thankful to Mr. Mature himself, Old Man John Mc Cain.

The fight's just about over, and then the focus is going to shift to this old fool. (Thank goodness)
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