Sen. Bond Warns Obama Wants Judges Who Empathize With “The Gay”

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Sen. Bond Warns Palin Crowd That Obama Wants Judges Who Empathize With “The Gay”
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From CBS News' Scott Conroy:

(CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO.) - Taking the stage as one of the pre-program speakers at a Sarah Palin rally here in Rush Limbaugh’s hometown, Sen. Kit Bond, R-Missouri, fired up the crowd by warning them about Barack Obama’s judicial philosophy.

“Just this past week, we saw what Barack Obama said about judges,” Bond said. “He said, ‘I’m tired of these judges who want to follow what the Founding Fathers said and the Constitution. I want judges who have a heart, have an empathy for the teenage mom, the minority, the gay, the disabled. We want them to show empathy. We want them to show compassion.’”

Bond then seized on Obama’s comments to Joe The Plumber, saying the Democrat wants to redistribute wealth.

“He thinks this country should be a government—not a government of laws, but a government of compassion and empathy, not of laws,” Bond said.

Bond was referring to Obama's answer to "Joe the Plumber's" question earlier this month "Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?"

"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too," Obama said on Oct. 12 in Holland, Ohio. "My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

Palin is scheduled to take the stage in just a few minutes, but there are still thousands of people in line outside waiting the Show-Me Center.

After this event, Palin heads to Erie, Pennsylvania, for a closed national security roundtable and a rally. She’ll end her day with a rally in Williamsport, home of the Little League World Series.

Link to article: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/30/politics/fromtheroad/entry4558204.shtml?tag=rightRail;rightRailInner

[Sherman A1]

1. Oh, that Senator Bond

What a wacky and zany fellow (and a twit, but that is just my opinion).

[silverweb]

2. Really?

Obama said, "I'm tired of these judges who want to follow what the Founding Fathers said..." ??

When and where did he say that?

I'm calling Bond a liar right now.

[Blaze Diem]

3. and What would be wrong with empathizing with gays? I see nothing

wrong with it Mr Bond. What's your fear?

[Swede Atlanta]

4. More evidence of no new ideas

This is like a frigging broken record.....Obama is going to do this and that....personally I believe we should have a judicial system that respects and considers the interests of people and not corporations. But they have no new ideas...they are a broken record that needs to be turned off. I am tired of a Supreme Court that will turn down a woman who established without a questionable doubt that she was paid less than a man doing the same pay wasn't entitled to be heard. This is a heartless, corporatist and fascist regime. Alito and Roberts are fascist corporatists in the Rovian model.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. "but a government of compassion and empathy," That is a concept to be derided??

Isn't that supposed to be one of the main tenets of the so-called "Christianity" that these disgusting hypocrites espouse?
:wow:

[ieoeja]

9. Amazing, isn't it?

They deride empathy and compassion as a bad thing. They pass around a Bill of Unrights.

Yet they still manage to somehow not be relegated to some third party whackjob status. Which must mean nearly half of the people in this country think liberty, empathy and compassion are evil.

[Fearless]

6. Mr. Bond...

Fuck you.

:evilgrin:

[machI]

7. He has got me convinced

I going to vote Obama

[cboy4]

8. No, no Senator Bond ...

It's "teh" gay.

And let's hope you're right.