Posted on 05/06/2008 8:31:52 AM PDT by Darren McCarty
Republican John McCain is castigating Democrat Barack Obama for voting against John Roberts as Supreme Court chief justice.
McCain offered an olive branch to the Christian right in a speech about the kind of judges he would nominate planned for Tuesday at Wake Forest University. The far right has been deeply suspicious of McCain, the expected GOP presidential nominee, because he has clashed with its leaders and worked against them on issues like campaign finance reform.
McCain promised to appoint judges who, in the mold of Roberts and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, are likely to limit the reach of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.
"They would serve as the model for my own nominees if that responsibility falls to me," McCain said in his prepared speech.
Obama likes to talk up his image as someone who works with Republicans to get things done, McCain said. Yet Obama "went right along with the partisan crowd, and was among the 22 senators to vote against this highly qualified nominee," McCain said.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama's rival, also voted against Roberts, although McCain focused his criticism on Obama.
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The bottom line is this. McCain may appoint good judges. It is a leap of faith to some degree, but he did vote for Roberts, Alito, and Thomas. Obama did not. Clinton did not.
Current ages of SCOTUS justices
Roberts - 53
Stevens - 88
Scalia - 72
Kennedy - 71
Souter - 68
Thomas - 59
Breyer - 69
Alito - 58
You mean Obama actually showed up for a senate vote?
“McCain criticizes Obama”
That alone is headline worthy.
Nice to see Johnny Mac get into the game ... and stop playing around like the campaign was a genteel Senate debate.
in any case, McCain is not to be believed. We can hope for a Souter at best from Juan.
It was on the same day as his squash match with Kerry.
McCain makes me nervous, he's an unknown quantity in many ways and I'm not sure where he'll jump on S.Ct. justices (and of course all the OTHER federal judiciary appointments).
But we KNOW where Obama or Hillary would go, and with Stevens almost 90 and Ginsberg only 75 but ill and obviously not enjoying the job, that's at least two spots that will probably come vacant soon.
Ginsberg 75
“John McCain will attend the NCLR annual Convention in San Diego, July 14”
McCain/Feingold
McCain/Kennedy
McCain/Liebermann
Gang of 14
The lettuce comment.
Not just voting against the tax cuts, but using leftist lingo while doing so ie; “Tax cuts for the wealthy.”
This is why I’m not voting for Juan McCain.
I can’t believe Souter is only 68. That fey old woman is gonna be with us a long time, I fear.
In considering the unborn, the only one who stands a chance of defending them is McCain. He gets my vote. I would rather have had a conservative to vote for, but I surely cannot stay home and most certainly will NEVER vote for Hillary or Obama.
So when is McCain going to apologize for voting for Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
I’ve gone over to the darkside. If Obama is the Dem, I’m going to vote R, even thou it is McCain. I said I would never do that, but Rev Wright convinced me that McCain really is the lesser of two evils...
That may or may not be true, but I will BET without even looking that McCain SAID nothing of the sort.
This is typical AP editorializing disguised as reporting.
Is there an email where we can write this “reporter” and tell her conservatives are not “far rightists?” I wonder how often she uses the term far left, though both Democrat candidates can be described as being from that group.
The real question is, can McCain be trusted to keep his promise on this issue?
Just heard the Glenn Beck show and how Ayers, Wright, Dorn, Obama and radical Islamists were intimately connected, that Obama was swimming in those waters for years. Don’t even consider letting Obama get elected.
“You mean Obama actually showed up for a senate vote?”
You mean McCain actually showed up for a senate vote?
He’s been campaigning in NH for the last 9 years.
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