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SezWho2
And what Obama has done is to restore the hopes and aspirations of people throughout the world.
There is nothing wrong with apologizing for mistakes or for actions that we regret. And, yes, American values and ideals have overwhelmed our mistakes--at least in our own thinking about them. However, the mistakes of the previous administration were particularly egregious, no matter what its intent. An admission of error allows people to support a change of direction.
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SezWho2
Also pretty sad that people resort to untruths to slander Dr. Tiller even in his death. Could you give us the name of even one "infant" that Dr. Tiller killed? Infanticide is the killing of a young child. None of Dr. Tiller's terminations were children. This is "baby-killer" in its five-dollar word version.
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SezWho2
I wonder if he said this without musing on what it is natural for people who have already been expelled.
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SezWho2
I'm fairly sure that many Palestinian deed-holders know exactly how he feels.
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SezWho2
teleprompter,
No, he can't claim he was emulating Christ, but he can claim that he was furthering God's will.
Sorry.
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SezWho2
flatearther,
I largely agree with you. However, at 5 plus months, the life involved is much more than a clump of cells and I think that is the point on which turns the argument of those who oppose late-term abortion (but not all abortion).
I don't think most women would choose late-term abortion on a whim or as a method of birth control. And I think it would be wrong to deprive those who would choose it for physical or psychological reasons for the sake of shutting the door on whimsical abortion. However, the gestating life is a recognizable human form and while I would say that it is not a person, I think society is within its right to accord it some protections.
I totally agree that a woman's existing life is to be valued more than the child's. I think this is what Dr. Tiller was about. The lunatic who shot him was, in and of himself, no different from many the individual religious radicals we are fighting all across the globe. Perhaps, however, it is time that we began fighting them at home, too.
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SezWho2
teleprompter,
Can you define the Left or does it just represent everything you disagree with? Are you sure your reports have not already played fast, loose and selective with the facts? What in the world do you think playing fast, loose and very selective would look like?
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SezWho2
Taka313,
I suppose he ran away to escape man's punishment, to find some safe harbor to await The Rapture.
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SezWho2
teleprompter,
Maybe I should look into Margaret Sanger's writings, but I doubt that they have much to do with the killing of Dr. Tiller, albeit perhaps slightly more than your idle speculation on the Islamic take-over of Europe.
I don't think "my side" has to argue charges of genocide. But I would be curious to know what you think my side is. If I have a side, I sure would like to know.
I believe that lives inside the womb are not persons. However, I think that society is free to define them as such--based on some criteria regarding viability outside the womb. I would stipulate, however, that in order to do so, society must be able and willing to pay the medical costs and the costs for future child care if women do not want their children. To do otherwise forces women into positions in which not only must they bear children, they must parent them as well. When a woman is punished for daring to conceive an unwanted child, the unwanted child grows up as a punishment.
Now what are the sides again and which side am I on? And why do you persist in dichotomous argumentation?
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SezWho2
Yes. This is probably why blacks are in such firm control in the US.
Seriously, though, I can't see that this has much to do with the killing of Dr. Tiller. This man died because some idiot with a gun believed he was on a mission from God. Maybe your God. Not mine, if I have one. Probably not Dr. Tiller's.
Whether God exists or not, we choose our gods and our gods tell us what we want to hear and what we think we need to hear. The miscreant in this case chose a god that gave him license to kill.
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SezWho2
Wolfpack,
I'd have to add, though, that I'd have to know more about this "White man" (you know, "white" is not usually capitalized and what's up with the capitalizations?) and the richness of his experiences about discrimination. I believe that's what Sotomayor was talking about. No?
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SezWho2
Wolfpack,
I'm not offended. It makes perfect sense.
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SezWho2
teleprompter,
You are promoting "gotcha" politics in its most virulent form. That video has been bitten off a longer remark and is taken out of context. She said that defense funds were looking for people who had Court of Appeals experience. Who was she talking to? What was her real message?
Contrary to your assertion, it wasn't that courts "should make policy". If anything, she said that she is not promoting the point of view that courts should make law. I think she did say that courts do in fact make policy. And that is entirely correct and entirely appropriate.
Judges make a ruling in areas that were previously undefined. The ruling establishes a precedent and clarifies what is permissible and what is not. The effect is to make policy. It cannot be any other way.
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SezWho2
I don't either. Nor do I see why a true observation should deprive her of a seat on the same court. People who yesterday despised political correctness seek to use it today in the most grotesque way. That's a clue that perhaps they haven't yet caught on to what political correctness is and why it's important.
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SezWho2
What is so puzzling is the willful misunderstanding on the part of those who say she was playing a race card.
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SezWho2
For example....
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SezWho2
Yes, Sarge. That's right. Right but irrelevant unless you produce the wiser white man.
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SezWho2
And it would be very good to notice that Sotomayor did not say that. I don't think that Sotomayor said that she was going to rely on her experiences. I think she said that with respect to issues of discrimination her experiences bring something to the table that people without such experiences do not have.
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SezWho2
Not so. Substitute "white male" for "Latina woman" and it's very clear what she is talking about.
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SezWho2
Another non-"winner": Jennifer Hudson. Despite what Vince Lombardi said, there are more important things than winning a contest.
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