So what if Romney, Santorum, or some other troglodyte gets to appoint Supreme Court justices?

[Cyrano]

For all my problems with Obama, I will do everything possible to see that he’s reelected. And my reason is that I don’t want any Republican Neanderthal appointing anyone to the Supreme Court.

There are of course many other issues on which any Republican president would take us deeper into the GOP sewer, but the SCOTUS is, to me, the number one issue.

Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito (and occasionally Kennedy) have screwed us beyond belief by making corporations “people.” One or two more of their ilk on the Court will doom us for the foreseeable future.

If you need one reason to go out and work your ass off for Obama, the power of the president to appoint Supreme Court justices is it.

[LiberalEsto]

1. This is precisely how I feel

I am seriously disappointed with Obama, but will vote for him on the grounds that anyone he nominates to the Supreme Court will be considerably better than any reactionary that someone from the other party would nominate.

[immoderate]

3. Me too. But there's a flip side.

There are some that would aver that Obama is there to somewhat mollify the masses and prevent the insurrection that would develop from prolonged reactionary governance. I remember people who voted for Nixon on that logic.

It remains that Obama (so far) has done very little to reverse the trend toward wealth disparity. His victories have been in foreign policy, and social advances that do little to change how the economy is going.

There seem to be some reforms on the horizon, and Obama has made previous feints in that direction, but I would like to see some progress there.

I will vote for him and tell others they should.

--imm

[Scootaloo]

4. Well, your criticism outs this sequence into my mind...

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[Cyrano]

5. Scootaloo, I have no idea what your post means

Perhaps others get it, but I don't. Could you be more specific?

[immoderate]

7. Thanks, I was hoping I wasn't the only one.

--imm

[Scootaloo]

8. Yeah, sorry, it made more sense in my head.

Simply put, the man is not a wizard. No one person can do away with wealth disparity, and to throw hammers and dead cats at one dude for failure to do so is irrational. It's a social construct that's been rooted in our nation and its culture since the foundation of the nation, and it would take a massive reexamination and re-tooling of our society to actually do anything about it. And the truth is, as far as presidents go, Obama's probably done the most trying to shift that boulder; maybe not as much as he could, but it's not as if he can get the fucking thing up the hill all on his own anyway.

[Mira]

2. It's a serious concern. After all

we've been there. Suffering the consequences now.

[HughBeaumont]

6. This can't be stressed enough.

I definitely don't need another Citizens United from the Glued-in-Place papal bastard faction. It's bad enough the Fuckerist Fascist Five couldn't be removed with the Jaws of Life at this point, and they're smiling about it.

[WCGreen]

9. Especially now...

Since there will be one or two appointments and then the rest will probably be there for at least a decade or so...