macho, Obama would disagree with the idea that Senators should just “pass on through” any judicial nominee that a President sends for confirmation. And, if that nominee is deemed to be “out of the mainstream” of “average America,” Obama declared that such a nominee should be rejected.

On January 31, 2006, then-Senator Barack Obama sent out a detailed, in-depth podcast about President Bush’s nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. (You can hear it in full here.)

In this recording, Barack Obama made the following statements: “There are some who believe that the President, having won the election, should have complete authority to appoint his nominee, and that the Senate should only examine whether or not the judge is intellectually capable… I DISAGREE WITH THIS VIEW… meaningful advice and consent includes an examination of a judge’s philosophy, ideology and record.”

Maybe our Senators should do what their President says to do. Don’t they support our country?

I daresay making her the country’s problem rather than Georgia’s problem is not a good idea.

The last thing we need is a justice who insists on being vain, corrupt, and stupid in the pursuit of s0-called social “equality”–but we’re going to get one shoved down our throats anyway.

I hope the Republicans fight to the last senator but they’ll cave sooner or later.

Sigh.

Pete, and everybody else, there is no such thing as a strict interpretationist.

You’re right, 95% of the qualified candidates will be disqualified due to affirmative action. The goal is hispanic, female, which will take care of two categories.

It’s simply amazing that we as citizens accept without a fight the fact that anyone from a protected class immediately has a leg up in these situations. And that is why the Hispanic is the front runner – no other reason.

Conservatives target Sotomayor, Kagan, Wood

A conservative politico likely to work on the coming judicial nomination battle sends over a memo circulating on the right, which targets three likely Obama nominees: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Judge Diane Wood, and Solicitor General Elena Kagan.

The early lines seem to be attacks on Kagan’s lack of bench experience, Sotomayor’s “temperament,” and Wood’s rulings on hot-button issues, including an application of a RICO statute in a case against hard-line anti-abortion activist Randall Terry.

The full memo — which is, obviously, tendentious — after the jump.

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0509/Conservatives_target_Sotomayor_Kagan_Wood.html

And he, if he wanted, could pick someone MUCH better than Sears! But he won’t.

Crazy, I know!

* Sonia Sotomayor of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Born in 1954 in the Bronx, N.Y. Nominated as a federal judge by President George H.W. Bush on November 27, 1991, and confirmed by the Senate on August 11, 1992. Nominated by President Bill Clinton to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on June 25, 1997, and confirmed by the Senate on October 2, 1998. Graduated from Yale Law School in 1979, and worked in private practice as a lawyer in New York City from 1984-1992 before joining the New York County District Attorney’s Office, where she served as assistant district attorney from 1979-1984. She then returned to private practice in New York City from 1984-1992.