"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old." - Barack Obama
"Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly." - Leviticus 19:15
This is another example of Obama's shallowness. He appeals to feelings, not REAL fairness. He wants to divide us by saying that anyone who insists upon complete neutrality and justice on the bench is somehow being heartless to the groups he mentions above. He (and his followers on the left) can then accuse anyone who opposes him as being heartless and mean-spirited. What's sad is that the strategy is so transparent and phony, and yet it actually seems to work.
If Obama had so much empathy for poor African-Americans, perhaps he can explain why his administration buried a report on how well charter schools in DC were doing so that he could shut them down as a political payback to his supporters in the teachers unions, who care nothing for the children they have just condemned to failed public schools. So no, Obama is utterly uninterested in even being consistent with his comments above. Logically then, one must ask why he made this comment? The answer is, of course, that he's speaking in a language that is meant to mean something to his supporters. He's saying he is going to nominate a judge who will help him return political favors to his constituencies in ACORN, Unions, Gay-rights groups etc, by casting them as the victims that need 'empathy' from the bench.
I guess I'm just old-fashioned, but I would rather see cases decided based upon the law, and leave the empathy and compassion to those we elect to WRITE the laws. This is how we also should be exposing bad law. If people are hurt by decisions the public thinks are unfair, we get our elected representatives to change the law. We do NOT empower judges to change it from the bench! Or at least, in a sane world, that's how it would be.
And that's the vent...
