The American people are not a model of consistency when it comes to their take on the Supreme Court. The latest Quinnipiac polls tells us:
“A total of 53 percent of American voters are “very confident” or “somewhat confident” President Obama will make the right decision in nominating a U.S. Supreme Court justice, while 46 percent are “not too confident” or “not confident at all” …
Voters trust the President rather than Senate Republicans 46 – 43 percent to make the right choice for the Supreme Court, but say 48 – 41 percent that Senators who do not agree with the nominee on key issues should filibuster the choice.
American voters approve 49 – 21 percent of the job John Roberts is doing as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and approve 52 – 32 percent of Obama’s nomination of Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the Court.
The court is too liberal, 29 percent say, while 19 percent say it is too conservative and 40 percent say it is about right. Saying “about right” are 36 percent of self-described liberals, 44 percent of moderates, 38 percent of conservatives and 30 percent of those who consider themselves part of the Tea Party. Voters say 78 – 16 percent that Supreme Court justices allow political views to enter into their decisions.
Huh? They trust the president, but a filibuster is fine to block Obama’s choice. They trust the president but think the current Court (the majority of whose members Obama would never nominate) is just fine. They approve of Roberts, the conservative, textualist scholar, but are delighted with the newest justice, who is neither of those things. Well, suffice it to say there’s something in there for everyone, and the public has become exceptionally cynical about the politicization of the Court.
Knee-capping
A few days ago The Annointed One tells an 8-year-old that its Midnight In America. Now the nutroots decide its Krystalnacht In America. Change you can believe in.
“Mr. Suskind’s reporting appears to be less reliable than the National Enquirer’s”
I don’t see how you’d get that from that link.
why would anyone want a world terrorism wall map?
I think clearly the plan by the media and the Dems with the Edwards affair is to try and tie this to McCain’s indiscretion 30 years back; just about everything I’ve read in the mainstream press has brought this up.
It all pales into inconsequence when one learns of McCain’s reaction to the Russian-Georgian conflict. Obama may be a tergiversating, left-liberal metrosexual, but McCain is truly dangerous.
lester — I know Jennifer’s logic was pretty sophisticated and hard to follow here, but this is what she meant about Suskind and the National Enquirer:
- Empirical evidence, other sources, and Edwards’ own confession have shown that the National Enquirer’s reporting about his visit to his mistress in LA was reliable.
- The sources Suskind himself claims for his “reporting” about the supposed letter forgery are stating, in no uncertain terms, that his allegation is invalid. They are asserting categorically that no one in CIA was ever directed to fabricate the letter in question, in direct contradiction of what Suskind reported they had told him.
Even Meredith Vieira recognizes that this circumstance calls Suskind’s reliability into question — which, as Jennifer Rubin points out, is the opposite of what has happened to the reliability of the National Enquirer story on John Edwards.
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Parting of the Seas
Has anyone noted that the real imitator of Moses speaking to his volk promising that he and they together would escape the wicked past, reach the promised land, and achieve great things – was Hitler.
If there was anyone who could move a people with uplifting language, who could express outrage at evil and injustice and promise a wonderful tomorrow, and delight the throng, it was Hitler.
He too stood on a promintory in the night, with lights stabbing up into heaven, and the wildly cheering men and women all around, overcome with emotion, desperately stretched their arms towards their hope and future. They were the good and the righteous. They had found an inspiring leader who spoke to their longings, and promised to change the nation, fundamentally, and the world, fundamentally.
While those who turned their backs on this savior were blind, and stiff necked, in league with the proven wickedness and hopelessness of the past.
First the McCainites dub Obama “The Chosen One”, then, “Moses”, now, nacl says he’s “Hitler”. Let’s call these attacks what they really are…jealousy! It really must peeve McCain that a junior senator without a war hero background has inspired people in a way he never has, and never will. Now, this once honorable “maverick” has stooped to the level of the people who told outright lies about him in 2000. In fact he has hired some of them to help run his campaign. He has fully embraced a by whatever means necessary mentality to win the White House. He will do and say whatever it takes, and then, scream the loudest when his lowly methods are called into question. He will tell the big lie, over and over until the American public buys into it. Case in point: look closely at Jennifer Rubin’s Tip for Obama fans. “when you make your candidate into a messiah-like figure, create totalitarian iconography and celebrate your candidate’s gibberish as if it were sacred text you are asking for it.” Obama’s supporters never claimed him to be “messiah-like ” McCain’s campaign ad did! For the past seven years the American people have paid dearly for allowing someone who used these same methods to occupy the White House. If you want more of the same, vote John McCain!
Diyogee,
stop drinking the bong water.
Diyogee
No, Obama is not Hitler. Nor was Huey Long Hitler, or William Jennings Bryan, or Fidel Castro for that matter.
But they all, like Hitler, played with the yearnings of their audiences, were masters of uplifting speeches, knew how to replace the truth and common sense with well emotive phrases. They all asked to be trusted, to be supported by their faithful, and the reward would be a new and better world.
Obama has conveyed the sense that he has an almost supernatural mission and destiny, that he will somehow carry the nation forward over intractable obstacles, just as he can lift up his audiences with his orator.
When a cult of personality is put in place, and language is used to overwhelm with emotion rather than to inform with details, then demagogy is at work.