Monday, August 22, 2005

The joke not the comic; the singer not the song? John Roberts was in his youth a real piece of work, thats the message which come through the last set of releasesfrom the White House    Roberts Resisted Women's Rights, and Roberts Scoffed at Promotion for O'Connor - Yahoo! News. Key consideration for his upcoming Senate conformation hearing is whether he appears to have genuinely changed as he's gone through life - or not. Others have noted that the White House seems strangley and singularly loathe to release documents from his later work for the Reagan and Bush adminstrations, which might answer that question. If the determination is that he hasn't, then I do not believe he has the crucial temperment, maturity, empathy, the ability to internalize experience, conceptualize justice, opposed to easy and empty holding of puerile opinion necessary for the job. Even mere knowlege - basic awarness of his fellow citizens that would suit him to be a Supreme Court Justice simply does not exist in the emerging picture of young John Roberts. Some insular people become aware of this as they grow and hold opinions with a lighter touch as result - some people do not. For these people opinions exist transcendently; they do not depend on or require anything, they are nurtured through ignorance. Much of the controversy has centered on the Joke as the White House has come to term it; and others have insipidly gotten in line with: If the Senators Laugh, It was a joke . To wit: "Some might question whether encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good,..." This on a memo advising whether a lawyer who was a government employee should nominated for an award for women getting law degrees as a career change. To say that is a joke is to truly stretch the boundaries of the type of communication that comment belongs to, no less excretable is the implication currently being pushed that anyone who does not see the laughter is the one at fault John Roberts' Woman Problem - The humorless feminists strike again. By Dahlia Lithwick . But I hear that the White House is considering a compendium of Robert's "humor" to be made into a movie, a sequel of a kind to the Aristocrats, which they have preliminarily titled the Plutocrats. 11:46:11 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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