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Having It Both Ways

5.23.08 @ 12:01AM

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VICE SQUAD
Re: Ryan L. Cole's Fever-Dream Ticket:

While this is one scenario it is not a very likely one. If one wishes to posit a terrifying scenario, cast aside concerns over who is VP and cast your eyes and thoughts just down the street to the Supreme Court.

Let us presume for the moment Mr. Obama obtains his goal and becomes our President. He will immediately seek to implement his liberal agenda. This will entail curtailing our freedoms. My belief is that his "reforms" will not pass Supreme Court muster as the court is presently constituted.

To resolve that Problem I believe he will have the opportunity to appoint at least two justices during his term. Just suppose he makes history one more time.

Let us say he appoints two left wing totalitarians to the court. Of course I'm speaking of the Clintons. Just think. They would be great assets to the Court. Neither of them has any experience as a lawyer and so the Court wouldn't be bogged down by those legal niceties like precedent and the law

History would be made by appointing the first married couple to the Court; the first woman who ran for president; and while not the first ex-President to be on the Court, Mr. Clinton would be the least qualified lawyer ever put on this bench and the only disbarred Justice ever!

This scenario would insure that our military could be weakened to the point of incapacity; the Second Amendment would disappear; the First would be curtailed so that "divisive" language could not be spoken and our freedom of religion would be abolished. This so nothing could stand in the way of the Court rubber stamping the final liberal solution.

It "is the dawning of the age of Aquarius."
-- Jay Molyneaux
North Carolina

It has been reported that a gracious Vice President, Al Gore, relinquished coveted White House office space to then First Lady Hillary.

Would Vice President Hillary Clinton be as accommodating to First Lady Michele?
-- Dan Martin
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

I don't share the media's perception of Barack Obama as a genius. Nevertheless, I give him credit for enough brains not to name Hillary Clinton as his running mate. Whether it would help him win the election is irrelevant. The day Obama is one fig away from Livia becoming emperor is the day the presidential food taster resigns.
-- Claudius

UNSENTIMENTAL EDUCATION
Re: Christopher Orlet's Inhuman Humanities:

Ezra Pound -- Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing.

That appears terribly exclusive, but in fact we now see the truth of it. Great numbers of people who do not insist on knowing have filled ever greater numbers of classrooms, and then filled ever greater numbers of professorships.

Now they require greater numbers of government jobs that employ their incompetence.
-- James Wilson

Letter to the Editor

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