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Over the weekend, McCain and Obama each had a chat with Rick Warren of Purpose Driven Life fame.  It was an hour of Obama followed by an hour of McCain.  I saw the middle hour (so a bit of both) including this line of questioning:

Warren: … which existing Supreme Court justices would you not have nominated? [emphasis mine]

McCain: With all due respect, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer, Justice Souter and Justice Stevens.

Warren: Why? Tell me why?

McCain: Well, I think that the president of the United States has incredible responsibility in nominating people to the United States Supreme Court. They are lifetime positions as well as the federal bench. There will be two maybe three vacancies. This nomination should be based on the criteria of proven record of strictly adhering to the Constitution of the United States and not legislating from the bench. Some of the worst damage has been done by legislating from the bench.

Ok.  Fine.  So he doesn’t like the 4 liberals on the court. 

Only one small problem…he actually *did* vote to confirm three of them (Ginsburg, Breyer and Souter). Believe it or not the 4th, Stevens, was confirmed before McCain joined the senate).

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  • Mac

    Nomination and confirmation aren’t the same.
    Could you set up an RSS that excludes politics?

    • http://www.altgate.com/ fnazeeri

      @Mac: fair point on the terminology. The nature of the Senate is such that nearly every senator has a voting record on the opposite side as their official position. In a race where both candidates are senators the whole “flip-flop” label won’t stick. In retrospect, I’m not sure this topic was worthy of a post.

      Regarding the separate RSS feed sans politics, I’m not sure when you signed up, but over the past 18 months I’ve posted a total of 142 posts of which 5 could be claimed as political (and 2 of those are a stretch). That notwithstanding, this is a personal blog so I hope you’ll indulge me when I share my opinions (some of them political) from time to time. Last point: there are like 3 facts in this whole blog so all the non-political stuff is opinion too!

      Enjoy and Go Obama! ;-)