Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Boys and Girls on the Supreme Court.

President Barack Obama is considering nominees for a seat on the Supreme Court. He is considering Diane, Nancy, Elena, Sonia, Jennifer. Obama is not considering John, James, Eric or even Juan or Mohammad. All girls, no boys.

The article does not mention the gender restriction. Apparently the restriction is understood, accepted and approved. How did we get here: a society that has lost its ability to reason?

Maybe Obama just wants to appoint someone like his two children, both of whom are girls. Maybe he wants to make nice to Hillary and her injured supporters who thought during the 2008 presidential primary that the boys were being mean to Hillary. Maybe Obama is doing a Bill Clinton deal and trying to make the Supreme Court look like America. That will be difficult with only nine members.

Do we want emergency room doctors restricted to girls only? Or do we also want to allow boy doctors to save our lives? Obama grew up in a society that had stuff like "bring your daughter to work". Omit the boys, bring the girls. This was being done by the parents, mostly mothers, of these boys. With that type of illogical thinking ingrained, restricting Supreme Court nominees doesn't seem so wacky.

What the heck is this? Obama is eliminating about half the population? OK, about now is when some of you reading this are screaming: hey, that's what happened through most of U.S. history. Yeah, right. We had slavery and lynching, too. Should we now make up for that by enslaving white people and hanging a few of them?

Grow the heck up!

I'm less outraged about Obama than I am about the lack of reaction. Obama is doing his political thing. If he could, he would appoint a Spanish, homosexual woman. He can safely ignore Asians because they are not vocal. What a mess.

How about considering really good Americans for the Supreme Court? That's good enough for me.

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