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News & ArtsMonday, April 19, 2010
Politics Hillary for SCOTUS? Bill Approves.
Posted by Eli Sanders on Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:34 PM
Bill Cinton, trampling on both Obama administration talking points and the Emily Post rules about discussing a woman's age—all in one impressive quote:
I think she'd be a great Supreme Court judge. But I think she probably thinks that it'd be better if he appointed somebody younger. Although if you look, I mean, my mother-in-law's 91. I mean, Hillary's going to live to be 110. I joke with her all the time. She might have three husbands after me. You know, she's going to live forever.
1
Did Bill finally lose his marbles? I mean he was dropping them all over the place in the 2008 campaign but now he sounds totally bonkers.
2
Why would we want a right-of-center Supreme Court nominee.
During her early law days she was right of even Republican President Ford's nominee that she would replace.
During her early law days she was right of even Republican President Ford's nominee that she would replace.
3
Haha. I dunno if this is news. I mean, did we expect Bill to say "You know, I don't think Hillary would be a very good nominee"?
I certainly didn't. But that would have been news.
I certainly didn't. But that would have been news.
4
Hillary Clinton has never done anything to position herself as a Supreme Court Justice. Please let this goddamn fantasy end. Stop treating a seat on the nation's highest court like a consolation prize.
5
I just want to know why POTUS and SCOTUS are household acronyms now? If journalists don't like writing them out, they should just set up their auto-complete.
6
What 4 said.
And 5: "Now"? Just because you hadn't read, uh, anything before the 2008 election does not mean that journalism has suddenly taken a bizarre shift for the lazy.
And 5: "Now"? Just because you hadn't read, uh, anything before the 2008 election does not mean that journalism has suddenly taken a bizarre shift for the lazy.
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@6 - 2008 is pretty recent on the timeline of my news reading (I voted for Carter in my elementary school mock election, for whatever that's worth), and extremely recent on the timeline of these subjects being covered by the media. So yes, "now." Why have these slightly-pervy sounded acronyms besieged journalism?
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@7: Hey, me too! I was only one of three in a classroom of about 25 who did so. I never understood the Reagan appeal then, and never appreciated it at any day hence.
Also, re WJC: my god, if that doesn't summarize his head space in uncharacteristically succinct terms, then . . . no, there is no then. That was just impressive foot-in-mouth bluntness.
Also, re WJC: my god, if that doesn't summarize his head space in uncharacteristically succinct terms, then . . . no, there is no then. That was just impressive foot-in-mouth bluntness.
14
hahahaha... we'll always have Cher, Hillary, and cockroaches. Bill is so effing funny, and he just. can't. stop. heee-larious
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As much as I'd like to see the shitstorm from the right raised by appointing Hilary to The Mudville Nine, I'd prefer to see her continue to do an excellent job at State for as long as she's needed, but hang it up in time to be fresh for the 2016 Presidential campaign.
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In my mind POTUS gained greater usage during "West Wing" and, I'd guess, SCOTUS gained traction with journalists who get all their information from Scotusblog - since there are so few journalists who cover the Supreme Court on a full-time, or even regular, basis. But incomplete sentences and undefined terms seem to have become regular "features" of blogs . . . in the "if you read my blog all the time you'd know" kind of way.
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