Kit Bond (Colossal Asshole-MO) warns that Obama will nominate judges who are...Gasp...Gay-friendly!

[marmar]

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from ThinkProgress:



Bond warns that Obama would nominate judges who empathize with ‘the gay.’»

During his introductory remarks at a rally for Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) this morning, Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) warned that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) would nominate judges who empathize with “the gay.” Misrepresenting Obama’s stated views on judicial nominations, Bond proclaimed:

Just this past week, we saw what Barack Obama said about judges. 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.’ … He thinks this country should be a government—not a government of laws, but a government of compassion and empathy, not of laws.

In fact, in discussing judicial nominations, Obama’s references to “empathy” only suggest that he would seek individuals who were not tainted by the “culture wars” of the 1990s:

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. … I am absolutely convinced that Culture Wars are just so ’90s. Their days are growing dark.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/30/bond-gay-obama/

[wryter2000]

1. Not only that

He'll appoint judges who have read the 4th Amendment. Shocking, I know, but there you are.

[Ken Burch]

3. Hell, he'll appoint judges who CAN read. For the RW, that's bad enough.

n/t.

[saigon68]

7. Compared to this Moran

[aquart]

2. Golly, I hope so.

[lojack]

4. Hahaha

Oh the humanity.

[Gregorian]

8. Welcome aboard!

I can just see Scalia and Kennedy doing the YMCA. We need real men under those robes.

[47of74]

5. Obama will also nominate judges who know the other 26 amendments

Not just the 2nd Amendment.

[Gregorian]

6. God help us! Off with the robes!

Next thing you know they'll change the color from black to some crazy flamingo.

Then men all over Alaska won't be men anymore. It'll just ruin everything. Ma, fetch my two by four!

[tkmorris]

9. Does that sort of thing really resonate?

I am certain there are a great number of the hardcore at a Palin rally who would be enraged against Obama upon hearing such a thing but I can imagine there are also quite a few who, upon hearing what Bond said, thinking to themselves "So what? That doesn't seem too bad to me." Bond seems to believe that words like "compassion", and "empathy" have become as poisoned as "liberal" has been.

Have we really reached a point where, when people hear that a judge has empathy and compassion they think "That bastard!" ?

[gollygee]

10. Gay-friendly? Oh No!

I'm thinking the fact that Obama won't appoint bigots to the Supreme Court is one of the reasons he has so much support.

[onenote]

11. even worse -- he'll probably appoint actual "gays"

and blacks and Jooo-ish people.

What a moran.

[busybl]

12. oh dear

whatever shall we do? Whatever happened to people minding their own business?

[MurrayDelph]

13. Maybe he'll actually appoint people who

when they swear to "Preserve and Protect the Constitution of the United States" actually MEAN IT!