Boredalt wrote:
Rather than string some quotes, I'll just say that I clearly said who cares if she's straight or gay? I certainly don't think it matters, and that was my initial point of this... questioning why this would be one of the big arguments against her when there are so many other doubts. It's comical that her supporters have produced a former classmate who is defending Kagan as straight. Honestly, who cares? I also don't question her education which I also cited. However, I can't help but think that even if you exclude all white men because they're white men, that there must be many women and men who can bring more experience to the table than Kagan.
This poopy is too important, imo, to pick someone based simply on diversity. It's funny that her supporters are citing her lack of experience as a positive thing, but when Bush nominated Harriet Miers, all hell broke loose from the left for this very reason. Justices are supposed to interpret the law. They don't have to like them. Her banning of the military from Harvard because they were obeying the law pretty much said it all. The point is not whether she agreed with the law, but her retribution against those who were abiding by it.
I certainly hope she gets the confirmation process she championed in 1995. Kagan: “it is an embarrassment” that the president and Senate do not always insist that a nominee’s accomplishments provide evidence of “an ability not merely to handle but to master the ‘craft’ aspects of being a judge.” In the end, none of this means she won't be a great justice, but I think she's been chosen because she's close to Obama, not because she's the most qualified he could find.
BTW... thanks to you all for knocking this around. This is the kind of thing that would have been nuked very quickly. Glad FUBU is here.
i think that selecting positions based on diversity is a trend that is happening in all parts of america, not just the legislative system. i posted earlier on the BH forums about how my MCAT scores were ivy league level, but i couldn't get into a decent medical school because of my degree in biology, which is deemed, "typical of medical school applicants". meanwhile, several individuals i went to college with who got pisspoor grades and bullshit MCAT scores got into harvard, northwestern, and johns hopkins based on the fact that they were english majors, or some bullshit foreign language major. i had to go back to school to get a second goddamn degree just to be less of an expert on what doctors should be. also, if you look at current application processes for most universities, they care more about how shitty of a place you came from rather than your grades. it seems that lately, america is under the impression that you have more to bring to the table if you've "suffered" more. i wrote a fucking TS Eliot level entrance essay to the university of wisconsin's nursing program about how i was a nurse in iraq and afghanistan, did combat casualty care, got blown up etc etc, (not in a self-serving manner, mind you) and i got WAIT LISTED. i was the salutatorian in HS, got a 30 on the ACT, am a multi-war veteran, and my little brother tells me his friend got into UW nursing school based solely on the fact that he wrote his essay on how he was in a Multi-Cultural club that did funny skits for highschool students. i might be a tad, jaded about this, but i hope you see my point.
