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Hatch says Obama promised not to nominate radical
Guardian UK ^ | May 4, 2009

Posted on 5/4/2009, 11:01:15 PM by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama has told a leading Senate Republican he would not nominate a radical or extremist to the Supreme Court.

Sen. Orrin Hatch said Monday that the president called him to discuss the nomination but did not provide names of anyone under consideration. Hatch is a longtime member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and is influential among Republican senators on judicial nominees.

The Utah Republican said there could be a major Senate fight if Obama "nominates someone contrary to what he told me." But Hatch said he takes the president at his word.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:01:16 PM by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh well; I feel so much better know that he “promised”. AHHHH what alternate universe did I wake up in?


2 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:02:03 PM by IMissPresidentReagan (Does CNN have to wear a condom when covering 0bama or do they carry one, "just in case"?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama has told a leading Senate Republican he would not nominate a radical or extremist to the Supreme Court.

uh-huh.

3 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:02:15 PM by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And he believed him?


4 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:02:20 PM by Not A Snowbird (I'm the one Janet warned you about)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh, he PROMISED. And we know now after 100 days of misery just how much weight The First Thug’s promises hold.


5 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:04:15 PM by kromike
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Kinda reminds me of Stephie Stephanopolous when he once told a reporter that his boss,President Billy Bob,was “keeping the promises he meant to keep”.


6 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:04:15 PM by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
President Barack Obama has told a leading Senate Republican he would not nominate a radical or extremist to the Supreme Court.

Oh, OK.

I was worried for a minute there.

Of course, "radical" to "Obama" is somebody like Lin Piao was to Mao, so Orrin - take it whence it comes, OK?

7 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:04:50 PM by Jim Noble (They are willing to kill for socialism...but not to die for it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama has zero credibility. I’ve never believed a word he’s said.


8 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:05:03 PM by FoxInSocks (B. Hussein Obama: Central Planning Czar)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama thinks people like Bill Ayers are just “activists” and “community organizers”. “Radical” depends on how you define your terms, and we’re stuck with Obama’s defintion. So he will think he kept his promise to Hatch not to nominate a radical even if he nominates Bernadine Dohrn.


9 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:05:08 PM by Numbers Guy
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To: IMissPresidentReagan
To Obama and the MSM, a radical is middle of the road.
10 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:06:29 PM by Uncle Hal
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Of course he isn’t going to nominate a “radical” to the Supreme Court. He considers Bill Ayers middle of the road. The only people he consider radical are those who believe in the U.S. Constitution, the rights of the individual, and the rights of the unborn.


11 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:07:03 PM by LauraJean (sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama has told a leading Senate Republican he would not nominate a radical or extremist to the Supreme Court

Translation:

"President Barack Obama has told a leading Senate Republican he would not nominate a Republican or conservative to the Supreme Court"

12 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:07:42 PM by Steel Wolf (Oh, well. Back to the drawing board....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

radical = conservative
extremist = pro-life or Constitutionalist

Fascist Democrat Lexicon - page 1


13 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:07:49 PM by Ingtar (Americans have truly let America down. A sad day.)
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To: IMissPresidentReagan

And he (Hatch) believes him? What a dweeb. If the wusspublicans are truly this stupid, they deserve to be extinct.


14 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:08:40 PM by wny
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama said that Bill Ayres is “just an ordinary guy in the neighborhood.” At least I THINK he said it, since I just checked and Google now seems to have thrown this phrase down the memory hole.


15 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:09:30 PM by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is one of those “low risk” promises. Like promising not to nominate a first grader, a person from an insane asylum, a dead person, or Kim Jong Il.


16 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:12:23 PM by Cboldt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

17 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:12:43 PM by Rastus (Jedi mind tricks would work on Obama.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The STUPID party

18 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:16:22 PM by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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To: IMissPresidentReagan

“The Utah Republican said there could be a major Senate fight if Obama “nominates someone contrary to what he told me.””

Fight him with what, spitballs? Once Franken-stein gets in they can do as they please.


19 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:18:09 PM by aquila48
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama promised...


20 posted on 5/4/2009, 11:20:01 PM by arthurus (ACORN + Amnesty = Venezuelan Democracy in the USSSA)
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