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- From: krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: God Help Us All! (mutter, mutter,) Amen!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.153758.2985@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 15:37:58 GMT
- References: <1dhu7nINNl06@spool.mu.edu> <6815@news.duke.edu> <grendel.721285610@camelot>
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- In article <grendel.721285610@camelot> grendel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alyosha Bourgea) writes:
- >In <6815@news.duke.edu> eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK) writes:
- >
- >>marcr@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Marc Rassbach) writes:
- >>$In article <1992Nov6.184705.198@hsh.com> paul@hsh.com writes:
- >>$
- >>$George Bush said "Clarence Thomas was BEST qualified for the job."
- >
- >>$No one in political power either had the guts to say 'bullshit' or
- >>$COULD say such. ("Best qualified" is very subjective. The best possible
- >>$person in the land? I highly doubt it. The best minority who wasn't
- >>$very contriversal and was most likely to hold an anti-roe viewpoint?
- >>$Probably.) So instead of calling an ace an ace and a spade a spade,
- >>$the committee attacked whatever they could to try to manufacture
- >>$whatever they could get to say no. Anitia Hill, well if they had
- >>$brought it up right away, I'd bet it would have been handled alot
- >>$less 'messy'. The committee failed to take what Anitia said
- >>$seriously.
- >>$
- >>$Either way, the post (in a political utopia) should be filled by the
- >>$best person, reguardless of political stripe.
- >>$
- >>$>Can we assume that "character doesn't matter" now, regardless of ideology?
- >>$
- >>$No, tis better to assume a political appointment was made to what
- >>$(in utopia) should be a politically neutral office. And (what could
- >>$politition would want to stop that?) the opposing side used any tool
- >>$they could get their hands on.
- >>$
- >>$Expect the Democratic choice to fair just as well.
- >
- >>Okay. Mario Cuomo "would be an excellent choice [for the Supreme
- >>Court]." (MTV special) He sure seems to be the BEST qualified for the
- >>job too. Right?
- >
- >He'd be a hell of a lot better choice than Thomas was. The Court is supposed
- >to be balanced. Cuomo, a liberal, would do better than Thomas to balance out
- >the ideology of the Court.
-
- Crap. I didn't hear any of you liberals whinning about balance when you
- had the court in your hip pocket. After listening to you folks cry about
- the supreme court for the last several years I just have to smile when
- you accuse us of whinning about the presidential election. We have got
- nothing on you.
-
- Ted
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