Being a white man has its advantages, women have hearts and men have brains, Alito, Jean de la Bruyere, poets and Archie Bunker
GEORGE BUSH HAS DONE WHAT HE ALWAYS REALLY WANTED TO DO - go with his people and what he knows best. He'll be able to add another wealthy white conservative man to the Supreme Court. Had he not taken the bold step to appoint a wealthy white conservative man to the Supreme Court, the real balance might have ever so slightly tilted somewhere else.
Appointing a WWCM at a time like this will also send messages to those who want to see a Court that is more representative of the diverse American public. One of those messages is that real power starts and ends with the WWCM, and that the women and other non-WWCM should calm down, and not be upset by the fact that they are non-WWCM. Instead they should realize that the WWCM has provided a good world for them - all the non-WWCM need to do is follow society's norms, and maybe even nurture the WWCM as that might really help their own condition. They might get lucky and get trickled on.
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ACT ALIKE, and try to be a white man
On the great television show of the 70's and 80's, ALL IN THE FAMILY, The Bunkers had a sweet huge-hearted drag queen friend, "Russell." Archie met Russell, who was dressed as a lovely fashion conscious big breasted 40-something woman, when Russell had fainted in the back of Archie's cab and Archie had revived him mouth-to-mouth style. Russell found out Archie's address and came to pay him the cab fare he had forgotten to pay and give Archie a large tip and tickets to his performance. Edith and the family loved Russell and they stayed in touch.
Many episodes later, Archie Bunker, after learning that Russell had been mugged and killed in their neighborhood, exclaimed, "That's why everyone should try to be just like everyone else."
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I think Bush should have shown some guts and not feared the radical right.
This morning, Gary Bauer, one of the radical right's shining lights, proudly proclaimed that "President Bush just hit a grand slam home run." Or was it a grand slam home run that did not touch the field before it left the park with its paying attendees seated below the arc of the ball? Christian non-athletes need to know a little more before they butcher things as foreign to them as sports metaphors.
If you don't remember Gary Bauer, he's the diminutive presidential candidate who when flipping a pancake he was trying to cook at a photo-op, fell off the stage. It was worse and much sillier than Michael Dukakis' driving a tank. Pro life or not, Bauer would have killed people behind the wheel of a tank.
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Now there will be only one woman on the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and I think it will become obvious that when George Walker Bush had the opportunity to make the Republican Party look like the Republican Convention circus they try to portray once every four years with their colorful convention stage of black men and women, with an occasional white person as a reminder, BUSH CHOSE TO GO WITH HIS BASE. It's too bad for him that there aren't many Condi Rices or Clarence Thomases left to appoint to powerful positions.
Has the Republican party run out of conservative blacks?
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It's amazing and really condescending that while Bush spoke passionately of Harriet Miers' HEART, looking into her HEART, knowing her HEART, knowing that she is a deeply religious conservative, that she would not change for twenty years, when he spoke of Samuel A. Alito, Jr., he spoke of his extensive judicial experience, wisdom, intellect and all that is not touchy feely.
I can't imagine how women could not be really offended by Bush's 12th century-style introduction to the media of his past two Supreme Court nominees - the woman's attributes were her heart, while the man's attributes were his brain.
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And George Walker Bush, speaking in haiku, a form that is dear to his heart (after all, he married an educated librarian), stated:
I know white men, some
of my best friends are white men
I'll choose a white man
When things go wrong I
need to go to my base
My white wealthy base
The poor would revert
to their base if they had a
base like I have
I just don't want to
deny a great white man the
good fortune from God
God has made him in
his image. God too is tall
white and powerful
So too should I choose
a white powerful man to
NOT RULE FROM THE BENCH
Just because he is
white does not mean he can't be
a sensitive judge
Here's my fav'rite phrase
"Give him an up or down vote"
One more white man's up
There is still a place
for the White Man in this Bush
Administration
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"Whenever a poet praises the verses of another poet, you may be sure that they are stupid and of no real value." Jean de la Bruyere, 1688