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The Second Time as Farce: (Kennedy/Kerry statements on Bork/Alito)
WSJ.Com Opinion Journal : Best of the Web ^ | January 27, 2006 | James Taranto

Posted on 01/27/2006 12:29:45 PM PST by Dr._Joseph_Warren

The Second Time as Farce

"Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks would sit in segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of million of citizens."--Ted Kennedy*, July 1, 1987

"Perhaps Prof. Liu put it best, of the Berkeley law school, when he wrote this: He said, Judge Alito's record envisions an America where police may shoot and kill an unarmed boy to stop him from running away with a stolen purse; where federal agents point guns at ordinary citizens during a raid, even after no sign of resistance; where the FBI may install a camera where you sleep on the promise that they won't turn it on unless the informant is in the room; where a black man may be sentenced to death by an all-white jury for killing a white man absent any kind of multiple regression analysis or other analysis of potential discrimination; and where police may search--I paraphrased that last sentence; it reads precisely 'absent a multiple regression analysis showing discrimination'--and where police may search what a warrant, may search and define what a warrant permits and then some. This is not the America we know, he says, nor is it the America we aspire to be."--John Kerry** Jan. 27, 2006

* Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.

** The haughty, Swiss-looking Massachusetts Democrat, who by the way served in Vietnam.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 109th; alito; alitovote; filibuster; kennedy; supremecourt
"where federal agents point guns at ordinary citizens during a raid, even after no sign of resistance"

We've never experienced that under a Democratic administration.

Have we?


1 posted on 01/27/2006 12:29:48 PM PST by Dr._Joseph_Warren
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To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
And you sure don't want to be on the bad end of an ATF budget advertisement under a democrat administration!


2 posted on 01/27/2006 12:33:42 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
Jean Francois is too full of French insouciance to notice its already happened... and it wasn't Judge Alito who brought it about.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

3 posted on 01/27/2006 12:34:52 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
for killing a white man absent any kind of multiple regression analysis or other analysis of potential discrimination; and where police may search--I paraphrased that last sentence;

No, what you did was you mis-read that last sentence. He CANNOT admit he made a mistake.

4 posted on 01/27/2006 12:37:17 PM PST by Bahbah (An admitted Snow Flake and a member of Sam's Club)
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To: Baynative

Great photo, isn't it?

These two men have turned into real, honest-to-God whackjobs, who wouldn't defend their nation if the mullahs came steaming up the Potomac in gunboats. They'd probably try to reason with the crazy ragheads...to see if we could reach common ground.

Oh brother.


6 posted on 01/27/2006 12:48:23 PM PST by RexBeach ("There is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur)
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To: RexBeach

Why assume insanity rather than treason?


7 posted on 01/27/2006 12:55:02 PM PST by Iconoclast2 (Two wings of the same bird of prey . . .)
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To: Baynative

Kerry...not wearing his Purple Hearts. Oh, that's right, he threw them over the fence. No he didn't. Yes he did. No he didn't. Yes he did. etc, etc, etc. Flip. Flop.


8 posted on 01/27/2006 1:11:18 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Kill 'em til they're dead! Then, kill 'em again!)
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To: Baynative
Through the years, with Teddie and Johnny....
10 posted on 01/27/2006 1:35:21 PM PST by Dr._Joseph_Warren
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To: Baynative
Note that he's wearing his medals/ribbons on the utility uniform, which is not supposed to be done.

Apparently trying to impress his buddy Ted.

Ptooie.

11 posted on 01/27/2006 1:36:17 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Baynative

Hey, was kerri in vietnam? I think those were his medals before they weren't his medals.

The swimmer just returned from drowning his girlfriend.


12 posted on 01/27/2006 1:37:00 PM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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To: Baynative

apparently,you can wear a military uniform for any occasion! Gotta grab my dress blues for the abortion rally.


13 posted on 01/27/2006 1:50:25 PM PST by BOATSNM8
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To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
Anybody know where one can copy a media file for Ted's "Hello? Hello?" ? I've been searching the net to no avail...

Thanks!

14 posted on 01/27/2006 6:16:38 PM PST by C210N (Bush SPYED, Terrorists DIED!)
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To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
where a black man may be sentenced to death by an all-white jury for killing a white man absent any kind of multiple regression analysis or other analysis of potential discrimination; and where police may search--I paraphrased that last sentence; it reads precisely 'absent a multiple regression analysis showing discrimination'--

Huh? WTH is he talking about?

15 posted on 01/27/2006 6:19:19 PM PST by eyespysomething (For you to insult me, I must first value your opinion.)
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He said, Judge Alito's record envisions an America where police may shoot and kill an unarmed boy to stop him from running away with a stolen purse;

Rush played a clip of Lurch talking about Alito ruling that it was "ok to shoot in the back of the head a 110lb 15 yr old 5'4" boy who was climbing a wall to escape with a stolen purse with $10 dollars in it".

Anybody know what the he!! Lurch was talking about?

16 posted on 01/27/2006 6:32:49 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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Rush played a clip of Lurch talking about Alito ruling that it was "ok to shoot in the back of the head a 110lb 15 yr old 5'4" boy who was climbing a wall to escape with a stolen purse with $10 dollars in it".

Anybody know what the he!! Lurch was talking about?

Maybe Kerry was having a flash back to Vietnam when he chased down and shot in the back that 110 lb, 15 yr old 5'4" wounded Vietcong boy.

17 posted on 01/30/2006 10:53:37 AM PST by Dr._Joseph_Warren
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