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fff

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I like it. :lol: :lol:

For the Supreme Court? Al Gore
Posted at: 2009-05-02 09:38:18.0
Author: Michael Sean Winters

The news of Justice David Souter’s retirement adds another challenging task to President Obama’s already full plate. There is any number of qualified candidates so the challenge is merely a political one.

Everyone seems to think Obama will choose a woman. I agree that women often bring a different perspective to life and its conundrums, and so would likely bring a different perspective to the application of law. The same holds true for picking a Latino or a Latina, which would place the first Hispanic on the Court. Of course, Obama has no idea how many more appointments he may make so the temptation to appoint someone he really trusts, like Gov. Devall Patrick, must be strong. Whomever he picks must, of course, be liberal enough to satisfy his base without being so left of center as to alter Obama’s carefully crafted image as a centrist in governing.

All of these considerations have candidates appropriate to the political dynamics noted above. But there is one person who selection transcends all the different classifications and whose selection would – instantly – galvanize the entire Democratic Party because it would entail the righting of an injustice that was simultaneously specific and so egregious as to appear cosmic. President Obama should nominate Al Gore to the Court. The choice would be electrifying.

Some will object that Mr. Gore is not even a lawyer, which is true. But, there is a long tradition of having those with legislative or executive experience on the Court, a tradition that has fallen by the wayside as Presidents have sought nominees with little or no paper trail. Earl Warren was a lawyer, and had served as attorney general of California, but it was his stature as a three-term Governor who was nominated by both parties for the job that earned him the nod for the Court in 1953.

Mr. Gore spent sixteen years in Congress making laws, serving in both the House and Senate. He served eight years in the executive branch enforcing laws. All this without a law degree.

Ultimately, the case for a Gore appointment is simple. Conservative jurists justify their rulings by appealing to abstract principles such as "strict construction" or "original intent of the Founders" this last despite the fact that even a modicum of historical familiarity with the Founding shows that the Founders had many and varied intentions for the Constitution they crafted. Liberal jurists care about the real world effects of a law. No one has been the object of both conservative hypocrisy (whither states rights?) and a very nasty real world application of the law in the way Al Gore was in Bush v. Gore.

I suspect President Obama will have other nominations by which he can bring other perspectives to the High Court’s proceedings. Mr. Gore might not even desire the appointment. But, in one stroke, Obama could avoid any intra-party grumblings and show to all the world that injustice can be rectified.

http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&id=33894980-3048-741E-3428248481116938
 

Mike

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The thought of someone even thinking of Gore as a member of SCOTUS can be nothing but a joke.

A selection such as this would ruin Zer0's credibility. Even the Libs are seeing him as a Whacko now....................
 

VanC

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I like it, too. I'm all for having someone on the Supreme Court that's not a lawyer. However, that person would have to have the mental capacity to grasp complex issues. Al Gore just might be that person.

Gore's undergraduate transcript from Harvard is riddled with C's, including a C-minus in introductory economics, a D in one science course, and a C-plus in another. Moreover, Gore's graduate school record - consistently glossed over by the press - is nothing short of shameful. In 1971, Gore enrolled in Vanderbilt Divinity School where, according to Bill Turque, author of "Inventing Al Gore," he received F's in five of the eight classes he took over the course of three semesters. Not surprisingly, Gore did not receive a degree from the divinity school. Nor did Gore graduate from Vanderbilt Law School, where he enrolled for a brief time and received his fair share of C's.

Oops. :oops: Well, look at it this way. There will soon be a lot of cases before the court dealing with global warming and what to do about it. No one in the world is more qualified to deal with these issues than Al Gore. He could even tutor the other justices!!

For all of Gore's later fascination with science and technology, he often struggled academically in those subjects. The political champion of the natural world received that sophomore D in Natural Sciences 6 (Man's Place in Nature) and then got a C-plus in Natural Sciences 118 his senior year.

Yet, this is the man liberals and dolts in the media are willing to bet their very lives on when it comes to complex scientific issues surrounding meteorology and climatology. On a regular basis, such folk have the nerve to suggest that Gore is more knowledgeable when it comes to these matters than scientists who have spent their entire lives studying and educating others at the finest colleges and universities around the world.

Interesting hypocrisy, wouldn't you agree?

In fact, when it comes to the more complicated sciences specifically involved in matters relating to the atmosphere and climate, Gore was practically a dunce:

When John C. Davis, a retired teacher and assistant headmaster at St. Albans, was recently shown his illustrious former pupil's college board achievement test scores, he inspected them closely with a magnifier and shook his head, chuckling quietly at the science results.

"Four eighty-eight! Terrible" Davis declared upon inspecting the future vice president's 488 score (out of a possible 800) in physics.

"Hmmmm. Chemistry. Five-nineteen. He didn't do too well in chemistry."

Think an expertise in chemistry and physics might come in handy to fully understand all the dynamics and variables involved with meteorology and climatology?

Never mind.
 

Yanuck

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way back when they had Angus cattle and showed them, he wasn't even smart enought to put the halter on the right way to lead them around the ring, and you think he needs to be on the Supreme Court? :roll: :roll:
 

Soapweed

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Yanuck said:
way back when they had Angus cattle and showed them, he wasn't even smart enought to put the halter on the right way to lead them around the ring, and you think he needs to be on the Supreme Court? :roll: :roll:

His case needs to go to the Supreme Court because he has swindled the people of the USA with his Gore Bull Warming hoax.
 

Yanuck

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Soapweed said:
Yanuck said:
way back when they had Angus cattle and showed them, he wasn't even smart enought to put the halter on the right way to lead them around the ring, and you think he needs to be on the Supreme Court? :roll: :roll:

His case needs to go to the Supreme Court because he has swindled the people of the USA with his Gore Bull Warming hoax.

true!! we had snow yesterday and its supposed to keep that up for the next week, I'd like a little global warming so the long underwear could come off before June!!
 
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