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Miers Hit on Letters and the Law ("Writings Both Personal and Official Have Critics Poking Fun")
Washington Post ^
| 10/15/2005
| Charles Babington
Posted on 10/15/2005 2:37:57 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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To: AmericanChef
141
posted on
10/15/2005 7:11:56 AM PDT
by
gpapa
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To: Racehorse
First, those articles are set pieces for a small, specialized audience. It required no more effort than she gave to them. There was probably no editorial staff and the only review was done by printer.
I think everyone has made mistakes of this sort when they were preoccupied with more important matters. This is very common in those who are deep thinkers.
142
posted on
10/15/2005 7:15:05 AM PDT
by
GarySpFc
(Sneakypete, De Oppresso Liber)
To: Doohickey
You are the one that doesn't get it. Wrong. My point was that Reid was saying that Thomas was a poor justice because of his inability to write well.
Dingy Harry doesn't like Justice Thomas's writing because he disagrees with the content.
Yes, we both know that's the real reason but it was a phony attack, hence the 'Harry Reid School of Attack'.
P.S. Thomas does write very well. Not on the same level as Scalia, but who else does?...
To: Sunnyflorida
Some people equate brilliance with articulation. I don't
Exactly! Have the clerks do the details. Have the judge give a yea or nay.
To: gpapa
Where?There's an opportunity for you.
You might ask Disney and Microsoft, among others, what they think about her inadequate writing skills.
145
posted on
10/15/2005 7:18:39 AM PDT
by
Racehorse
(Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
To: AndyJackson
I know that subtle distinctions, such as Hero of the Revolution vs fawning mediocrity are beyond you, but you don't need to harp on about it.
On the contrary, I am an avid student of American History, and am very familiar with John Marshall. I have lived 63 years, and have the wisdom to discern when someone is filled with hate.
146
posted on
10/15/2005 7:19:18 AM PDT
by
GarySpFc
(Sneakypete, De Oppresso Liber)
To: AmericaUnited
Okay, fair enough. If her performance at the confirmation hearings match her strained writing style, can I expect you to question her nomination?
147
posted on
10/15/2005 7:21:02 AM PDT
by
Doohickey
(If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
To: ElPatriota
We are conservatives. Are RINOs conservative?
148
posted on
10/15/2005 7:21:30 AM PDT
by
gpapa
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To: Doohickey
Yes. See, honesty, something very lacking here lately.
To: GarySpFc
They're not mistakes.
That is the tenor of her writing.
Her style is that of a pettifogging, careerist bureaucrat, and that is an ineluctable fact, whether you choose to admit so or not.
She is a paper-shuffling, glad-handing cipher, and to delude yourself into believing that those atrociously written, ill-conceived, and poorly articulated papers are anything other than a reflection of who she is as an individual defies logic.
150
posted on
10/15/2005 7:23:03 AM PDT
by
Do not dub me shapka broham
("We don't want a Supreme Court justice just like George W. Bush. We can do better.")
To: Paladin2
...Bush is softening up the country for a Gonzales nomination...Nooohh...:) that is cruel! Then there would be no doubt, he would be simply Stupid.
151
posted on
10/15/2005 7:24:55 AM PDT
by
ElPatriota
(Let's not forget, we are all still friends despite our differences)
To: Sunnyflorida
Sending Miers to author and write nation-altering decisions on the most powerful court in the land is like sending Willie Nelson to La Scala to sing the role of Aeneas in Berlioz's
Les Troyen.
Each of them might be able to hit every sixth note, but why is that "good enough"?
Miers has been continually promoted beyond her modest talent and abilities by the same sort of people and for the same irrelevant reasons as are manifested in these threads at FR.
To: AndyJackson
"One worries that her thinking is just as tortuously muddled as her writing. " Fein doesn't even try to criticize the style of the
only professional document cited. Instead he makes a self-ridiculing absurd attack upon it's substance.
I hope her jurist critics soon get over their justified pique and quit making fools of themselves.
153
posted on
10/15/2005 7:25:15 AM PDT
by
mrsmith
To: looloo
154
posted on
10/15/2005 7:25:55 AM PDT
by
gpapa
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To: AndyJackson; GarySpFc
You are the guy who tried to tell us that Miers was as qualified as John Marshall when he took the job, until I pointed out that Marshall did not just study law for a little bit, but studied it under John Whyte at William and Mary (Jefferson's law professor), and that by the time he was appointed to the Supreme Court, he was a hero of the revolution, had established a sound law career and was a leading elected and appointed member of our newly formed republic. I have noticed that the "stealth is okay - trust in GWB" camp has been more prolific with misleading posts, than the "fact finding and rational discussion" camp is. I've seen this pattern in other FR "events" as well, and after a day or two of independent study, I have been able to reliably conclude, objectively, which side is being intellectually honest, and which side is playing mind and word games.
GarySpFc, your posts are making a negative impact on your credibility as intellectually honest. I respect that you are an advocate. In fact, you are an exceptionally good advocate. But those of us who take the time to "fact check" your posts are finding that too many of them are misleading.
This entire FR/government process works so much better if it based on basic honesty regarding fact presentation. To do otherwise reduces what could be reasoned debate into nothing more than playground mudslinging.
155
posted on
10/15/2005 7:26:04 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: AmericaUnited
I appreciate it. FWIW, I'm open to being convinced that Attorney Miers is the right person for the job.
156
posted on
10/15/2005 7:26:23 AM PDT
by
Doohickey
(If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
To: GarySpFc
I think everyone has made mistakes of this sort when they were preoccupied with more important matters. This is very common in those who are deep thinkers.It was an obligatory column she probably didn't want to write. It went with the office.
That she was lazy about writing it is no big deal, except to would-be sharks going after chum. :-)
157
posted on
10/15/2005 7:26:52 AM PDT
by
Racehorse
(Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
To: Doohickey
If her performance at the confirmation hearings match her strained writing style, can I expect you to question her nomination?You can expect me to question it.
158
posted on
10/15/2005 7:28:16 AM PDT
by
Racehorse
(Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
To: Racehorse
You might ask Disney and Microsoft, among others, what they think about her inadequate writing skills. Some of these people make me laugh, trying to paint this woman as a complete illiterate nincompoop, that can't write, think, or speak beyond a 4th grade level. It's simply amazing how this female Forrest Gump managed to fool so many people and organizations over such a long period of time. HOW DOES SHE DO IT???
To: kabar
No one is. No one is perfect.
Partial Birth Abortion, Tax Cuts, WOT, letting the AWB expire, Tort Reform... some of the Conservative things accomplished.
LLS
160
posted on
10/15/2005 7:28:23 AM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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