I am not at all joking when I say I believe he is suffering from some sort of dementia.

Kmiec makes more sense than many of the McCain-haters here at HA, but that’s not saying much.

jgapinoy on May 7, 2008 at 4:21 PM

heh

funky chicken on May 7, 2008 at 3:41 PM

I don’t think you have to sell anybody at HA on how horrendous Obama’s SCOTUS nominations would be — in spite of his lofty rhetoric, he’s pretty much exposed himself as the radical leftist.

The problem is still McCain. Yes, I believe he will pick nominees acceptable to conservatives, but given that we are looking at an even smaller minority in the Senate, those nominees stand to be promptly failed by the Judiciary Committee. Who, then, will be the second choice(s) of the man who touts himself for his “bipartisanship” and is unashamed of his leadership of the “gang of 14?”

That’s the unanswered, and given his track record, highly disturbing question.

Thus his support for a candidate who believes in having justices decide things based on “social and economic justice” which just means that poor blacks shouldn’t face tough sentences for crime. Hmmmmm

funky chicken on May 7, 2008 at 3:31 PM

Yes, it’s all of a piece. It’s one of the mantras of liberation theology, and for such as Bill Ayers, whose aim is to bring the revolution into the K-12 classroom through the teaching of “social justice.”

Just try to remember that when the media salivates over “Catholics” who buy into this by supporting Obama, they aren’t Catholics.

Today, Robert George is a distinguished professor of ethics at Princeton, one of the most vocal and academic writers on pro-life policy, and roughly the same age as Professor Doug Kmiec.

Robert George is also Catholic and Pro-Life. It’s not clear who he is backing for President, but I sincerely doubt it is Senator Obama.

So McCain isn’t lenient enough on immigration for this guy either? LOL, er, some conservative this fellow is.

Abstract Critical Race Theory (C.R.T.) has developed out of a deep dissatisfaction that many black legal scholars in the U.S. felt with liberal civil rights discourse, a discourse premised upon the ideals of assimilation, ‘colour-blindness’ and integration. In addition, the emergence of the Critical Legal Studies movement provided Critical Race theorists with an innovative lexicon and practice which allowed them to develop a critique of traditional race analysis and U.S. law. Patricia Williams has played a key role in the formation of the C.R.T. movement and is concerned with many of the C.R.T. themes: the understanding that traditional civil rights law has benefited whites more than blacks, the ‘call to context’, and the critique of liberalism by the assertion that racism is routine and not aberrational. Following the C.R.T. belief that form and substance are connected, Williams has also extended the boundaries of another C.R.T. theme by (largely) eschewing the conventional genre of legal writing in much of her work, including her two books, The Alchemy of Race and Rights and The Rooster’s Egg. This was one of the issues Williams discussed in an interview that commenced when she visited Britain in 1997 to deliver the Reith Lectures.

http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm

Other law prof names to google:
Douglass Cassel, Harold Koh

the “hyprocrisy of a nation of immigrants that won’t accept any more of them”?

Yes, that’s a good one coming from a man who is willing to vote for partial-birth-abortion supporting candidate Obama, in order to avoid “divisive confirmation proceedings that undermine respect for law.” Because nothing promotes respect for the law like granting amnesty to tens of millions of foreigners who’ve repeatedly demonstrated their contempt for our laws, right Kmiec?

What a tool.

Another so-called Christian that flashes a Bible and looks righteous to other pagans.

This man is a good example of how too many Catholics have become so enmeshed in the rubric of “social justice” that they fly in the face of the church’s teaching while patting themselves on the back for their superior moral judgment.

Bottom line: they are no longer Catholics in the church’s view, no matter what they call themselves or how much time they spend in church.

Nichevo on May 7, 2008 at 3:26 PM

Wait….I think we may have a winner. Thus his support for a candidate who believes in having justices decide things based on “social and economic justice” which just means that poor blacks shouldn’t face tough sentences for crime. Hmmmmm

Exit Answer: The Obama campaign has pictures.

Buford Gooch on May 7, 2008 at 2:59 PM

dead girl, live boy, or livestock?

Bromance

pseudonominus on May 7, 2008 at 3:21 PM

Do you watch “How I Met Your Mother?”

amerpundit on May 7, 2008 at 2:34 PM

Kmiec is apparently (hard to tell, the logic is so tortured) that candidates who oppose abortion but favor the death penalty cancel themselves out, morally. So, therefore Obama, who favors abortion but opposes capital punishment, is a better candidate.

This man is a good example of how too many Catholics have become so enmeshed in the rubric of “social justice” that they fly in the face of the church’s teaching while patting themselves on the back for their superior moral judgment.

Bottom line: they are no longer Catholics in the church’s view, no matter what they call themselves or how much time they spend in church.

If that’s where you want to go with this, how does Kmiec end up voting pro-choice Democrat?

amerpundit on May 7, 2008 at 2:20 PM

Sorry, I just remain unconvinced that McCain will do anything for us on the conservative front. (Not that Obama would do any better.) Given his recent history, he seems determined to do whatever the Dems want. Everyone is talking about how he promises to appoint more Alito/Roberts type justices….but how? If he does, the wailing from the left and/or the NYT’s causes him to cower in fear….or bi-partisanship or whatever he will call it. If the Democratic congress send any pro-abortion legislation his way, he will sign it….again, citing bi-partisanship. If any pro-conservative legislation hits his desk, he will surely veto it, claiming it is divisive, not comprehensive enough or not “what the American people want”.

So, I don’t know why this guy could switch sides and actively support someone whose contempt for un-planned babies extends even to babies born alive after an attempted abortion. But McCain’s contempt for pro-lifers and/or religious conservatives will essentially provide the same result. So if this guy is anti-war also, well at least he gets one thing that he wants with Obama. There are a few people I know in my church that are saying this exact same thing….people I had always thought were as staunchly pro-life as I am. But they also want the war ended now, so they are going with Obama….because they pretty much see that unrestrained abortion is going to go forward no matter who they vote for….I’m having a hard time convincing them otherwise.

How does anyone as committed to the issue of life as Kmiec end up voting Democrat?

I have no idea.

Abortion decided my very first vote as at 18 little else on the presidential level concerned me.