Liberty and Justice for All!

John McCain, proving that he is losing touch with reality, came out against the supreme court ruling that even suspected terrorists have the right to question their incarceration by saying:

I think it’s one of the worst decisions in history, … It opens up a whole new chapter and interpretation of our constitution.

So let me get this straight. The conservative court actually upholds the right of all people to habeas corpus and McCain questions it as being one of the worst decisions in history?

Let us look at a couple of BAD SCOTUS decisions, shall we?

Plessy v Ferguson: You know, the whole “separate but equal” ruling that gives people a warm fuzzy feeling (I think it is nausea) inside? I wonder where McCain stacks the recent decision against Plessy.

Dred Scott: Back before our country was enlightened enough to realize that black people are people too, we had the Dred Scott verdict. Scott was not allowed to challenge his status in federal court. Where does McCain rank this in his list?

Another disturbing part of this article was the comment by fellow Republican and freedom hater Lindsey Graham who stated:

Americans are going to be shocked to find that that mastermind of 9-11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, now has the same legal standing as an American citizen.

What Graham doesn’t understand is that as a country we should strive to be better than those who would attack us. Nobody here is going to say that Khalid is a good man. However, even the most vile of murderers deserve a fair trial and a day in court. It shouldn’t matter if the person is a citizen or not. We should strive for greatness and part of what makes us a great nation is the fairness of our court system. The ruling today returns a small portion of the fairness that had been stripped. To know that McCain would turn back the clock and rule that non-citizens are not worthy of equal access to our court system just proves he is not suitable to be our next President.

This will also be posted at my Obama for President blog.

My personal Barack Obama for President blog is now online. I will be making my election commentaries there and leave this blog for mostly local (or unrelated national) issues.

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Bobby Jindal has said that being Governor of Louisiana is the job he wants. However, he is talking like someone who actively is seeking out the vice presidency.

Jindal says Obama speaks well, but hasn’t delivered

That is a change, or a flip flop as you will, from his previous statement to Wolf Blitzer:

We want all the candidates to pay attention to Louisiana, especially our recovery needs. I think it’s a great thing. John Edwards came and announced his candidacy here, and got out of the race here. Major candidates have traveled here multiple times. We want both parties to pay attention to Louisiana. You know, the recovery needs will go well into the next administration.

Sounds like someone had a change of heart. Does Jindal no longer want both parties to pay attention to Louisiana?

On a related note, Sound Politics believes that Jindal should be first on the short list.

His speech tonight was amazing. He combined genuine praise for Hillary, showed respect for the good things McCain has done, and attacked with both logic and wit the faults in the McCain campaign.

 The gem comment was “We need to be as careful getting out of Iraq as we where careless getting in”. Brilliant.

I really hope that the party will be able to come together. Now that we have a presumptive nominee, I have a couple of ideas I am going to roll out over the next couple of days. So stay tuned.

To all those Hillary supporters who are saying that they wouldn’t vote for Obama, I have two points.

A) She would accept the V.P. nomination if it would help the Democrats win the White House. She is a team player, you should be too!

B) Imagine the idea of eight years of Hillary as V.P. followed by eight years of Hillary as President. Sixteen more years of a Clinton in the white house. That should be music to your ears and should drive the Conservatives crazy.

Just sayin…

The Southern Political Report states:

Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, and Phil Bredesen, the Democratic governor of Tennessee, both promote a transparent, business-like approach to managing state government. But as both have shown this year, transparency has its limits.

Just sayin…

I have been trying to figure out the exact problem the Democrats are having this election. It shouldn’t be that hard. You have a Republican presidential candidate who is going to follow in the footsteps of President Bush if elected. Well, I figured it out.

This election should have been a referendum on the Bush Administration and those Republicans who continue to blindly follow Bush’s failed policies. However, it has become a referendum on “making history” and how we should do it (by either electing a black man or a woman to be our president).

This is not just a recipe for failure in the 2008 general election. This also loses sight of the main point of fighting for civil rights. We are not supposed to be supporting people because they are a woman or belonging to a minority group. We are supposed to try and treat all people equally regardless of their gender or ethnicity. As Dr. King said, judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.

And yes, I completely  understand and accept the argument that a black person is likely to think that a black president would understand the needs of the black community (just as a woman might think that a woman president would understand the needs of women). That is all well and good for the individual. However, for the party as a whole, we need to get off of the idea that electing our candidate will make history. We need to get back to the idea that if John “Bush Wannabe” McCain gets elected, that our rights and civil liberties will BE history.

With apologies to Oyster’s “quotes of the weak” posts, a rip off to bring some amusing quotes.

“He is a politician’s politician. He has an ability to tell everyone what they want to hear. …We’re a waste of this man’s talents,” — State Sen. Joe McPherson (D - Woodworth) (who doesn’t buy Jindal’s V.P. denials.)

“I don’t know if his heart was so much into being governor as it was in (finding a) stepping stone.” — State Sen. Eric LaFleur, (D-Ville Platte) (on Jindal not being available to legislators, only his staff)

And then there was this one:

“If (Barack) Obama asked me to be his vice president, I would say yes.” — Lt. Gov. MITCH LANDRIEU, in joking contrast to Gov. Bobby Jindal’s reluctance to respond definitely to questions about whether he would be John McCain’s running mate.

Really? If you read the article, I guess the number of conservatives who would be angry at Jindal if he would accept the position are fewer than some conservatives would have you believe. Then again, if you dig deeper, you see that it is a Democrat who was passing out the bumper sticker (and not in an endorsement).

McPherson, D-Woodworth, handed out bumper stickers that said “Jindal for V.P.”

He said Jindal has it all — youth, drive and a clutter-free office that shows he does not plan to be here long.

“He is a politician’s politician. He has an ability to tell everyone what they want to hear. …We’re a waste of this man’s talents,” McPherson said.

I did find the New York Times article to be refreshing journalism, even if he didn’t quite get the meaning for the stickers. The advocate’s coverage of the new bumper stickers is quite amusing as well.

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