Quick.\u00c2\u00a0 Name a Supreme Court Decision you disagree with.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Bush V Gore does not\u00c2\u00a0count.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
I can’t help but try to figure out how I would answer the questions which Palin flubbed in the Katie Couric interview.\u00c2\u00a0 (Is this thing being stretched out for maximum ratings or what?)\u00c2\u00a0 “What Supreme Court decisions do you oppose?”\u00c2\u00a0 “Um… that Imminent Domain decision… no, wait.\u00c2\u00a0 That one actually came out right.\u00c2\u00a0 Didn’t it?”\u00c2\u00a0 My ability to answer the Couric question would depend solely on my state of mind at the moment.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Naturally I expect more from a potential president, and the times and circumstances\u00c2\u00a0I’d allow one to go blank on such a question are close to nil, perhaps limited to shouting out the question as s\/he is being chased in the Forest by a hungry Bear.<\/p>\n
The one exception\u00c2\u00a0for this question, one that probably should come to mind with ease even when being chased by a hungry bear:\u00c2\u00a0 The Dred Scott Decision.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps Palin could not answer “Dred Scott” because it is a sort of fifth grade answer — Biden, for instance, provided an answer of a Supreme Court decision which struck down a law he wrote and passed — but it is better than nothing.\u00c2\u00a0 Further, it is a decision which politicians coming out from her socially conservative — read “pro-life politician” — milieu are trained to be\u00c2\u00a0chime in as a way of referencing “Roe v Wade” — supposedly a historical antecedent of a moral bankrupt culture that can think of some people as less than full peoples.\u00c2\u00a0 George W Bush, at one of the 2004 “Debates”, went off on a tangeant against Dred Scott for this purpose.\u00c2\u00a0 In that sense, even if it might have seemed a bit odd to some people, it would have been the right answer to some people. But, for whatever reason, she failed this basic Christian Conservative Politician test of being able to equate Dred Scott with Roe v Wade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Quick.\u00c2\u00a0 Name a Supreme Court Decision you disagree with.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Bush V Gore does not\u00c2\u00a0count.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t help but try to figure out how I would answer the questions which Palin flubbed in the Katie Couric interview.\u00c2\u00a0 (Is this thing being stretched out for maximum ratings or what?)\u00c2\u00a0 “What Supreme Court decisions do you oppose?”\u00c2\u00a0 “Um… that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}