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Thursday, May 21, 2009 | 2:03 a.m.
The U.S. Constitution lists no qualifications for service as a Supreme Court justice. None. No minimum age. No minimum IQ. No legal experience or training. Not even a high school diploma. Absolutely anyone can serve.
Wouldn’t it be absolutely wild if President Barack Obama were to nominate Bill Clinton? Could you imagine the uproar, the drama, the theater? Heck, it’d take everyone’s mind off the economy.
Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity would be dumbstruck by the sheer chutzpah. Mark Levin and Michael Savage would instantly succumb to apoplectic shock, their blood pressure skyrocketing to untold heights. What great fun to be had.
And he would be a great justice.
Oh well, I can dream, can’t I?
Stanley you moron: There is not one liberal in this country and that includes you to that would even think about putting anybody without a law degree on the high court. Your whole letter just says that you hate republicans' what's wrong can't think of any good liberal bulls##t to send into the sun today. Also could you and all the other cool-ad drunks imagine the uproar, the drama, and all the theater if President Bush would have tried to put Dan Quail on the high court. Screw qualifications he just likes the guy NOW THATS FUNNY. > PS. AND HE WOULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT JUSTICE TOO.
This is a letter not spending much time to comment on.Rediculous crap.
Clinton would try to put the make on Ruth Bader Ginzberg in her chambers.
Please Almighty God...
Have Obama appoint a man who committed felony perjury in a Federal Court of law to be a Supreme Court nominee.
Please.....................
What a great idea, Stanley.
If this letter is so ridiculous, then why comment with no comment?
Morons.
Indythinker, where are you?
PowerPlay,
Moron is as moron does. Bill Clinton has a Juris Doctor degree from Yale (1973). That's a law degree if ever there was one.
Of course, it would be funny to see someone nominated to the Court who was disbarred from practicing law in front of it. Republicans aren't the only ones who would be apoplectic. What a ridiculous idea.
POWERPLAY:
I'm surprised President Bush didn't put Dan Quail on the Supreme Court. He made so many other great appointments. Rumsfeld, "Brownie", "Fredo", Harriet, Stephen Griles (convict-jail time), David Safavian (convict-jail time), Paul Wolfiwitz, Douglas Feith, Claude Allen (convict-jail time), Bernard Kerik (convict-jail time pending), and top pick, "THE DICK".
"Stanley you moron: There is not one liberal in this country and that includes you to that would even think about putting anybody without a law degree on the high court."
POWERPLAY -- one of the greatest justices ever to sit and preside over that court was John Marshall. He gave us one of the greatest touchstones ever for what courts and this country stand for in 1803's Marbury v. Madison ("The Government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men..."). Four law schools and one university are named after him. Yet he only had six months of law school.
Watch the courts and its sworn officers for a few years. You will likely find as I did that by and large the conduct, faithfulness to the law, and ethics of the average officer of the court to be utterly despicable. We have allowed a private club -- bar members -- to monopolize an entire branch of government. They have replaced the rule of law with the rule of their personal whims and caprice. Just look around then come back and tell me why when the average citizen runs out of money he also runs out of rights.
For perspective I recommend you check the Honorable Edith Jones charge "American Legal System Is Corrupt Beyond Recognition" at http://www.massnews.com/2003_Editions/3_...
That is so stupid it doesn't even deserve a rebuttal.
Yes, Ruth Bader would stay on just for the times Bill got bored and started playing "pass the feely".
Ha Ha Ha That would be great. I think Clinton would serve us well. FYI PowerBall spouting off nonsense again
Clinton attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., receiving a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.) degree in 1968
Upon graduation he won a Rhodes Scholarship to University College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics
After Oxford, Clinton attended Yale Law School and obtained a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 1973
Dear POWERPLAY:
I corrected the spelling, capitalization and punctuation errors in your essay. There were over a dozen. There are always a dozen or so in everything you write. Compare your original with the corrected version below and see if you can spot the differences. I made no attempt to correct accuracy of content or choice of words. Neither did I modify your inherent rudeness, as I consider these factors representative of character as opposed to schooling.
Here's the corrected copy:
"Stanley, you moron: There is not one liberal in this country, and that includes you too, who would even think about putting anybody without a law degree on the high court. Your whole letter just says that you hate Republicans. What's wrong? Can't think of any good liberal bulls##t to send into the Sun today? Also, could you and all the other cool-aid drunks imagine the uproar, the drama, and all the theater if President Bush would have tried to put Dan Quail on the high court? Screw qualifications, he just likes the guy. NOW THAT'S FUNNY. > PS. AND HE WOULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT JUSTICE TOO."
POWERPLAY, don't you have a literate friend to whom you can send your thoughts for review prior to posting them for all to see? You could avoid a lot of embarrassment.
One has to wonder who Stanley is paying off at the Sun to elicit such print time. Do you have life Mr. Goldfarb?
Clinton may have been a God to some of you, but to the rest of the real world, he was little more than an embarrassing liar who disgraced the most powerful office in the free world. But, of course his personal life had nothing to do with his ability to run the country. Ummm...one could argue that his impeachment for lying to Congress was a bit of a distraction from his day job.
But, by all means Stanley...put the personification of amoral in our highest court so he can pass judgement on the rest of us. Let's all make mediocrity the standard to which we all aspire. Oh goodie!!!
And to annienonymouse...I am right here... laughing as usual at your ridiculous rants and attempts to bully people into thinking like you. How boring the world would be if we all agreed all of the time.
And to those of you critizing the spelling and grammar of PowerPlay...leave the guy alone. At least he is taking the time to participate. So much for appreciation of Socratic methods.
I honestly don't think that Monica would fit under Bill's robe!
As a conservative I would like to see a balanced court. I do think it is disingenuous of the conservatives to say that they want judges who will use a strict interpretation of the Constitution or that they oppose activist judges who legislate from the bench. The Conservative judges recently selected seem to be doing just the opposite to this mantra.
Bill has a law degree.
And exquisite experience...gov., pres., Monica, etc.
He's a bit brighter than most who post.
He's pretty good with words. At least when he spoke, I didn't feel shame as I did when W tried to speak.
It would never happen, but if it did, I would feel far more secure in the wisdom of William Jefferson Clinton than in the idiocy of a Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice,etc.
airweare...good thing this isn't left up to you. I can't believe anyone would publically announce that they would feel "far more secure" in the wisdom of WJC because, let's face it...the guy was so manly he needed a cigar with Ms. Monica and then conveniently forgot...half his cronies are in prison or have committed suicide and his track record is less than impressive (think first terrorist attack on the trade towers, USS Cole bombing, etc.) I will give you this...he speaks well for a putz.
And, personally I think Condy Rice is amazing and doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Cheney or Bush.
Okay, Indy, you got me on Condy. She's a pretty good one.
Bill, in spite of weaknesses, remains an astute observer of the human condition. I always liked him, even after working for him. I am not in prison or in the grave from self-inflicted wounds, although I am quite elderly and not in the best of health anymore.
If my life were in the hands of another, I would still choose Slick Willy rather than a W or a Dick.