The Supreme Court: Part 8

Finally, there’s one more disturbing fact about Barack Obama’s views about the Supreme Court, and the justices that he may appoint.

Rather than using experience, intelligence, qualification, and other MEASURABLE indicators, as to whether or not someone should be nominated to the court, Barack Obama said the following:

“I taught constitutional law for 10 years, and . . . when you look at what makes a great Supreme Court justice, it's not just the particular issue and how they rule, but it's their conception of the Court. And part of the role of the Court is that it is going to protect people who may be vulnerable in the political process, the outsider, the minority, those who are vulnerable, those who don't have a lot of clout.
. . . [S]ometimes we're only looking at academics or people who've been in the [lower] court. If we can find people who have life experience and they understand what it means to be on the outside, what it means to have the system not work for them, that's the kind of person I want on the Supreme Court.” Barack Obama - November 2007

The absurdity of this statement is off the charts. So, for Obama, pretty much all lawyers/judges/academics are out of the question, unless they’ve had life experience.

Question to Obama:
Well, what’s life experience?

Answer from the Obama Campaign
Barack Obama will tell you when the time comes.

Hmm. I don’t think I’m going to like his appointments.