I nominate Mario Cuomo.

[Bluebear]

What a show that nomination process would be, but what a guy.

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One hundred forty-eight years of globalization with its benefits and its burdens make this a very different world from the one Lincoln lived and served in.

Lincoln's failure would have left scarred the face of America, extending the cruel tragedy of slavery and perhaps fracturing the Union. His success helped keep the American dream alive.

Obama's failure would heighten the threat of unprecedented global damage, but his success could help lead our great nation and this entire threatened world into a new period of enlightenment and progress.

Obama's moment in history is a unique one. There has never been more to worry about, but neither has there ever been more to hope for.

We should choose hope.


http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-opcuo206005235jan20,0,5752145.story

[WI_DEM]

1. Cuomo would have been a great pick in '93 when Clinton wanted to put him on the court

but he did his usual "to be or not to be" Hamlet routine and decided not to go for it. Now he's pushing 80 and we need a liberal on the court who will serve more than a few years. His time passed.

[Bluebear]

2. He's 76, not dead :)

But point taken about someone needed who will be there for more than a few years.

[aquart]

10. Love Mario, but I don't think he'd take it.

Wouldn't want a conflict when his son is president.

[elleng]

3. I SECOND that nomination!!!

O8)

[tekisui]

4. I would like a younger woman.

:)

[Bluebear]

5. No sex threads.

Oh...

[Lex]

9. LOL.

:rofl:

[aquart]

11. Youth is insufficient.

I require that both parents and both sets of grandparents lived healthy and mentally unimpaired into their nineties.

I want IOW an undislodgeable monument who will give apoplexy to conservatives into the next century.

[tekisui]

12. I like that approach, too.

Check the grandfolks.

[LeftyMom]

6. We have to go with relatively young guys, because the Bush Admin. did.

Honestly I think that would be a bad precedent for the long term, but pragmatically we need a couple of guys of similar age who are as staunchly left-leaning as Roberts and scAlito are right-wing.

[Bluebear]

7. Complete agreement.

Pragmatism will be crucial. I just hope that Obama doesn't go for "bipartisanship" in this particular instance.

[LeftyMom]

8. Considering that the right never does, "bipartisanship" is for suckers.

I really don't see any advantage in compromising with people who don't believe I am fully endowed with human and civil rights, nor do I see the point in supporting anybody who does.

[saltpoint]

13. How impressive it would be for the arrogant Scalia to try to push around

Mario Cuomo.

That would be the last time Scalia tried THAT.

Cuomo is one of the Great ones. Love 'im to death. In an ideal scenario, he would serve until the end of Obama's second term, then step down -- he would be 84 then -- and Obama would appoint a much younger person who was just as liberal in his place.

That's pie in the sky of course, but it's after midnight and let us not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.

The odds for a female appointee, I think, are extremely good.