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APassingScot - 23 March 2008 09:18 PM

Kmiec’s core argument (you quote it yourself!) is that a president must have “before all else” a respect for the law. Obama has this, but McCain generally does not talk about domestic issues, nor is his lust for war particularly Christian.

He also talks elsewhere…

First, if your assertion that Kmiec’s endorsement is based upon “the rule of law”, please show me how Obama fulfills the requirement. Having carefully defined this matter as personified by Roberts and Alito and their jurisprudence, one might find it relevant that Obama voted against both.

Is this the “party allegiance” that so disgusts you, or is Obama simply in utter disagreement with Kmiec on what constitutes the rule of law? 

Kmiec also blathers on about the “rights of the unborn” and how his views on abortion are informed by his Catholicism.  Obama’s appalling history on abortion and 100% NARAL rating might have given him pause, but no.

Have it either way; Kmiec Fisks himself, not that anyone was looking for his opinion on the election, anyway.  I suspect that this idiotic opus is more about Kmiec being bored at Pepperdine and looking for future employment opportunities away from law school students.

APassingScot - 25 March 2008 01:02 AM

He was a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago, a stronghold of conservative thinking. I can see you’re having a problem with understanding simple things, but let me point out the obvious to you:

1. Professors of constitutional law (and yes, Supreme Court judges) are few and far between, or in other words “rare”.

2. Scalia is neither running for president nor on McCain’s staff.

This is all flowery and puffy and surely makes you feel important, except that it is not true.  Obama was an occasional lecturer on constitutional law at Chicago, and never a professor.  His vote against John Roberts in his confirmation as Chief Justice would also seem to disqualify him from further praise as a con law scholar.

As for the University of Chicago being the bastion of conservative legal thought that you claim, explain Cass Sunstein.  He operates in the same legal sphere as Obama and other conservative Obama stalwarts like Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Jesse Jackson, Jr. and Jeremiah Wright, which is to say just to the right of Mao.

Obama is a man of faith, and a man of the law. These are strong conservative principles too. It is possible for a thinking conservative to understand this, and endorse such a man.

The fundamentalists and ideologues are full of pride. The cherry picking of things you disagree with is quite genuinely pathetic.

It’s fun when leftist nitwits tell conservatives what our principles are supposed to be and how other leftists embody these great conservative principles. 

Obama is “a man of faith” vs. Jeremiah Wright “God Da-- America!” and infanticide; “man of the law” vs. Rezko and Roberts, Alito no votes.

Kind of tough to balance all that.  More “cherry picking” I guess.