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Glenn Greenwald be not proud

May 09, 2010 21:47

Obama to name Kagan for high court

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supreme court, barack obama, elena kagan

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julieannie May 10 2010, 02:57:32 UTC

I feel like Obama lied to us about everything he said he would be. At this point I am so angry.

baked_goldfish May 10 2010, 03:24:22 UTC

What do you feel he lied about?

celtic_thistle May 10 2010, 03:26:16 UTC

Huh?

sexitara18 May 10 2010, 03:35:52 UTC

I'm sick of this centrist middle of the road safe crap. I want some true hardcore liberals and progressives.

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cesaretech May 10 2010, 02:58:54 UTC

Knowing her opinion on detentions of prisoners suspected of terrorism without trial, I'm not terribly happy about President Obama's nomination of her; especially if Senator Lieberman's recent bill ever becomes law, it's unlikely we can count on her to strike it down as unconstitutional.

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cesaretech May 10 2010, 04:40:22 UTC

According to the New York Times, she believes anyone suspected of helping Al Qaeda should be held in military court without the freedom of trial.

mechanicaljewel May 10 2010, 04:57:02 UTC

Believing that personally, and making judicial decisions in that direction (when a good chunk of the precedent in that area is against that) are two very different things.

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erunamiryene May 10 2010, 02:59:15 UTC

So this person's expected to be centrist? Why is that ... bad?

cesaretech May 10 2010, 03:07:56 UTC

On its face, nothing; this particular centrist has some red flags, though. One should not want zir Justices to be too extreme either way (Scalia), but many people wanted President Obama to stock the Court with liberals. They're upset that he hasn't.

erunamiryene May 10 2010, 03:10:44 UTC

I've noticed a few of those flags doing some reading.

I'm just sort of baffled by GODDAMN IT OBAMA'S NOT A LIBERAL HE'S A GODDAMN CENTRIST WTF sometimes, cause I've never really seen being a centrist as being a bad quality.

cesaretech May 10 2010, 03:13:30 UTC

Centrists upset both sides, because they're neither conservative nor liberal enough (whatever that means). One can also sum it up with President Obama is not the messiah the left was hoping for.

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volksjager May 10 2010, 03:00:51 UTC

...and it remains a Harvard/Yale court.

schmiss May 10 2010, 03:19:15 UTC

Just wait til he appoints me. It'll be a Harvard/Yale/community college court.

baked_goldfish May 10 2010, 03:25:21 UTC

A Jill Biden approved appointment.

celtic_thistle May 10 2010, 03:33:05 UTC

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everythingonit May 10 2010, 03:02:48 UTC

:D Jeffrey Toobin is reporting on this right now.

ladypolitik May 10 2010, 03:27:47 UTC

Bitch needs to take care of his baby.

/Sorry couldn't resist

screamingintune May 10 2010, 09:03:38 UTC

lmao

I'm so disappointed in him; he's like one of two people on CNN I actually like