For the record I'll repeat what I said this afternoon:
The #1 reason I'll be voting against McCain and for Obama is to preserve the future of the Supreme Court as a judicial body that puts the Constitution and the law ahead of ideology and presidential whim, and to increase the chances that the U.S. Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, will be honored throughout, not just where it's convenient or profitable for the wealthy.
Dubya and his followers--or handlers--have been undercutting the Constitution all along, getting bolder and more blatant the longer he's been in office: warrantless wiretaps, political imprisonments on a grand scale, torture, as well as all sorts of violations of human equality under the law, and more appointees like Alito, Scalia, and Roberts we don't need. McCain is so eager to please his fundamentalist wing that he cannot be trusted to make nonideological appointments, and given the ages of some of the justices, the next president will undoubtedly be appointing at least one or two new ones.
Can we guarantee that Obama will restore the Constitutional protections already seriously undercut by the Bush administration(s)? No: eventually we have to take any candidate on faith and judge by his or her past actions. This time around, however, the candidate who has in the past four or so years reversed himself on what have been some of his most passionately held tenets in order to appear cooperative to the wielders of power does not seem like a good bet.
The #1 reason I'll be voting against McCain and for Obama is to preserve the future of the Supreme Court as a judicial body that puts the Constitution and the law ahead of ideology and presidential whim, and to increase the chances that the U.S. Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, will be honored throughout, not just where it's convenient or profitable for the wealthy.
Dubya and his followers--or handlers--have been undercutting the Constitution all along, getting bolder and more blatant the longer he's been in office: warrantless wiretaps, political imprisonments on a grand scale, torture, as well as all sorts of violations of human equality under the law, and more appointees like Alito, Scalia, and Roberts we don't need. McCain is so eager to please his fundamentalist wing that he cannot be trusted to make nonideological appointments, and given the ages of some of the justices, the next president will undoubtedly be appointing at least one or two new ones.
Can we guarantee that Obama will restore the Constitutional protections already seriously undercut by the Bush administration(s)? No: eventually we have to take any candidate on faith and judge by his or her past actions. This time around, however, the candidate who has in the past four or so years reversed himself on what have been some of his most passionately held tenets in order to appear cooperative to the wielders of power does not seem like a good bet.
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