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When the candidates were asked which of the current Supreme Court Justices they would not have appointed, [Barack Obama] said, "Clarence Thomas." He expressed the differences he had with some of Thomas' decisions. "I would not have nominated Clarence Thomas," he said. "I don't think that he...was a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation."
Assessing all the possible choices for Obama, Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska possesses the most compelling bona fides. He's loaded with international and national security experience-and that may have been one of the reasons Obama selected him to travel with him during his recent tour of the Middle East and Europe. Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island was also in that entourage, but his name hasn't been mentioned in the veepstakes.The economy wasn't a key concern at the forum at Saddleback-but even on morality Obama has a tendency to sound too academic. For example, when asked when he believed that a baby warrants human rights, he delivered a complicated answer. "I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade," Obama said. On the other hand, [John McCain] put his straight talk into motion again when dealing with the same issue by saying succinctly that life "begins with conception."Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer, Justice Souter and Justice Stevens, naming all the liberals on the Court.See the full content of this document
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Make It Plain, Obama
If there was a clear winner in the recent Saddleback forum last weekend featuring appearances by Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, it was the host and moderator Rev. Rick Warren. Media reports seem to agree that Warren, bes...
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