As long as McCain blindly follows the NRA's lead, we will never have any kind of check to see who is buying guns. And your criminal comment doesn't hold alot of water either. Gun shows, stores regularly ignore rules and since the NRA and their minions say no background check, yes to immediate purchase, there are a lot of guns that should not be out there but are. When I talk about competition I mean the oil companies obscene profits and drug and health insurance companies always RAISING $ while denying the admission of cheaper substitutes. There are certainly democrats that won't do anything about it but the GOP has the lock. As for prayer, just what was the religious make-up of this country at it's onset? How many buddhists, jews, muslims were here? NONE of any consequential amount, if any. Therefore the founders could put in their own prayers and it wouldn't matter. Two hundred + years later this country is NOT all christian and therefore having preacher Clem say "Bow down to Jesus your lord and savior" at the ball game is not only ridiculous but discriminatory. UNLESS you allow all the other groups that attend these events to say their own. OK? Let's let the Iman, the Rabbi and the Monk get up in some Texas/Alabama/Idaho town and say something. You'll surely see a sight as BillyBob, Brandine and the rest of the kin raise h#$* I noticed that you did not address my no contract, no accountability job award comment. Halliburton and the rest of Duhbya's buddies have made billions with no one watching over them

If this quack gets his hands on Supreme Court nominees, this country is headed for worse troubles. I respect McCain for his service to the military but I do not want him for president. Talk about out of touch? Hello, the man is 72 years OLD! Personally, I think if you are over the age of 65, you shouldn't even think about running. Retire and live happily ever after. Leave running the country to the able bodied and well minded.

I hope McCain realizes that most Americans are moderate and it would be to his advantage to nominate moderate judges to the bench, should he become president. The center is the place to be on this issue.

For those who accuse Sen. McCain of being a warmonger, you may be interested in what Sen. Joe Biden said in a recent television interview: "My fellow Democrats may not like to hear me say this, but I know John. He hates war and would do everything he could to get us out of Iraq." Why is Sen. Lieberman, the Democratic VP candidate in 2000 supporting John McCain, even willing to travel with his campaign and speak at the Republican convention? Perhaps it says something about this man, what he stands for, and what he is willing to die for.

Americans for McCain '08

Jax - Where did you learn to speak or write in English or get your morals…at a garbage dump?! It does NOT matter how many women become pregnant after being raped…they were violated. I'll bet you think women ask to be raped! I guess you think the new judges should ban abortion so these poor victims of rape are forced to re-live their horror every day of their lives.

To all the so-called women democratic voters who will vote for McCain in the general election if their candidtae doesn't win: Just remember this pledge from McCain and cry and weep when your pro-choice rights are totally abolished! Is it worth it to prove a point by not voting for a democrat if your candidate doesn't win?! Get over yourselves and vote democratic even though your first choice did not win. God "help" America if McCain gets in office!

Al NY NY

It will NEVER happen. Mainly because McCain is not even a conservative.
And to answer you other claims
You think criminals go to the store and buy their weapons? Please maybe if some of those students in V tech were armed the tradegy wouldn't have happened
This country and gov't was founded by some pretty religious people. In God we Trust, one nation under God etc. It may infringe on your right but you infringe on my rights to say or sing it
Let's just end competition and put the gov't incharge or our health care since it has worked so well with medicare, social security, our education system etc
And finally the old rape excuss. You need to check you facts because that number of women who actually become pregnant from being raped is less than 1% and i have no problem with them not wanting to keep but some may choose to keep it

Senator John McGeezer - what he for again? Oh wait, he'll change his mind when he wakes up.

This guy is a loser and only offers us another term for George Bush policies - Is this what America Wants?

NO - We need change - Vote Democratic Party and get the country back on track. We have had enough of the "rule of the elitists" it's time to get back to Progressive Policies that take America forward!

It is amazing to me that people out there believe that judicial "activism" is coming from the left and that justices on the right are merely interpreting the constitution in the strictest of terms. The Bill of Rights has simply been gutted by this administration, which has shrewdly used the so called "war on terror" as its justification time and again. In almost every case, the right-leaning Supreme Court has been complicit in this re-interpretation of the Constitution and dismantling of our fundamental rights. How is this not "activism" of the worst kind???

Just what America needs…more Conservatives and the religious right to push their immoral minority views on the rest of us—NOT!!!

In the world of the neo-cons, "conservative judge" means "narrow-minded bigot determined to ram his religion down your throat." Why in the world do we want that?

Total Fake. He admitted he knows nothing about the economy and
HE DON'T CARE. He reads off of the teleprompter and this is what
is "written" for him to say.

Vote for McCain, a patsy for Bush. Bush will be "ruling" the Country
with his feet propped up, while sitting on his front porch in Crawford.

BUSH WILL CONTINUE TO RULE WITH ANY REPUBLICAN

"Conservative judge" means neocon judge. Neocon judge means byb by Bill of Rights.

Strict constructionist does NOT mean conservative!

"My friends, I intend to nominate judges that don't follow the Constitution but follow their own personal beliefs, my friends. My friends, I intend on continuing the ruination of America by the bush crime family since I will say or do anything to get elected, my friends."

McBush = FOUR MORE YEARS. If you are better off than you were 8 years ago then vote for McBush and then sign up to go fight his oil war in Iraq, otherwise, STFU.

Does anyone else remember that McCain USED to be against torture, then changed his mind and supports America's right to practice that abhorant treatment? Seems to me that if we're supposed to be thought of as the "good guys", we should ACT THE PART!!

To Haley: McCain's pledge is not for conservative judges but for strict CONSTITUTIONAL judges. He berates the left-leaning activist judges who inject their social agendas into their rulings. If sticking to the letter of the constitution is conservative, then what is the liberal way of judging? Disregarding the constitution or believing it is a "living, breathing document" (i.e. subject to the whims of leftist fads).

The word used was Constuctionist judges not constitutional, and Disregarding the constitution is a LIBERAL IDEA????!!!! where the hell have you been living for the past 8 years? You must be all of 18 with such uninformed opinions.

I have observed one fact. Obama's supporters dominated blogging everywhere! But all polls show the support is about equal among Obama, Clinton, and McCain.

What are the reasons why there are so many bloggers for Obama? Young college students should be very busy on their studies. Do they have so much time blogging? Are most of the bloggers just activists, not common voters? We all know there are far more activitsts for Obama than any other candidates.

……… and it is exactlly that kind of talk that will drive the dems home to the nominee! keep talking mac, we won't win you'll lose!

Detractors of Sen. McCain seem intent on finding an excuse to malign his character. I find it interesting that those on the right accuse him of abandoning his conservative principles, while those on the left claim that he has adopted the president's policies. They cry, "Look, he's a conservative!" "No, he's a liberal!" Wait, he's a moderate!" The truth is that John is doing his best to be himself in a system that insists he remain in a political box. He has devoted his life, and often at great risk, to serve the country he loves. John McCain really is the American president Americans have been waiting for. They just don't know it yet.

Americans for McCain '08

That pledge is going to be what will send him packing back to the senate.

You go Mccain with your kind of reponses example 100 years, not go to war for oil again and judges you would pick the democrats won't have to campaign you are giving them the election, THANKS.

GO OBAMA 08

Women for Obama, the housing crisis is the homeowners fault and the lenders fault. It is not he government's job to bail them out. People need to show a little responsibility and be accountable for making mistakes. I took out a mortgage I could handle. Sure, I would like a bigger and nicer house, but I settled for a house I could afford. It is not the government's job to use my tax dollars to bail out 3% of the population. Maybe they shouldn't have bought the jet skies, new car, and whatever else they had to have at the moment. Try saving to buy something.

Jax. You don't think the FIRST DAY after a new conservative Justice was put on the bench someone would bring a case before it? You make me laugh with the ignorance. Right wing judges will: allow concealed weapons everywhere and have NO accountability for background checks/allow Christian prayers to be said at school and other events (even thought contrary to what some may believe there ARE non-christians in this country/allow greedy corporations to skim, bilk, and outright steal $ from our pockets in the name of "competition"/get insider deals for friendly corporations (ie Halliburton) no bid contracts to huge jobs/and finally, force a woman who was raped to carry the baby to term regardless of the circustances

Hurray!!! thats what America needs.. be less progressive…less forward thinking…. less free…. and more intolarent! wooohoooo conservatism rules!

The Supreme Court of the late 20th Century helped bring us to the more tolerant and better place where we are today in terms of civil rights.

It is unfortunate that Mr. McCain chooses this issue to placate the distant right. It will stick in the craws of moderates (including educated independents and republicans) and will not help his election chances.

Is McCain a natural born citizen? I smell a rat.

The amount of misunderstanding and misinformation in this blog is truly amazing! McCain a 'moderate' … please look at his voting record. He is a hard core conservative and, worse, a neoconservative in foreign policy. The writer who suggested that Alioto is not a conservative … absurd, because he is also hard core. One thing is clear … if McCain appoints the next two Supreme Court judges, women can kiss their reproductive rights goodbye. As a former GOP leader who has been forced to change parties because of the takeover of the GOP by the Religious Right and Neocons, I hope people will look at the facts, real issues, and actual records of the candidates. McCain is Bush Redux. And Bush is surely the worst president in our history.

Even as a pro-life Catholic conservative, i know that regardless of the judges, Rowe V Wade will never been overturned. Even suggesting it makes me laugh.

However what activist left-wing judges will do is take away my right to protect myself in my own home, stop the singing of God Bless America at Yankee's stadium, stop my child from saying the pledge cause it may offend someone, allow greedy trial lawyers (john edward) to collect millons from ridiculous lawsuits in turn making it impossible to doctors to pay for malpractice insurance, and finally make it legal to suck the brains out of a full term fetus

McCain is right.

The republicans now dominate the supreme court. We need a democratic president to preserve the balance and unity of our union. A court dominated by one party or the other would provoke disastrous results for the country.

It i one of the most compelling reasons to vote democratic in 08, and the upcoming landslide in November will cement that fact.

No matter what his ability to lead is, this is a major reason not to vote for him. Judges should have no "conservative" or "liberal" tendencies. They should be arbiters of the law, period. This is bad for the country.

THESE are the issues our democratic candidates should be talking about. THIS is what matters, not rev Wright or gas tax holidays that neither of them can implement anyway!

Democrats -

This is what is going to happen if you switch sides if your candidate doesn't get nominated.

DEMOCRATS UNITE!

ANYBODY BUT MCCAIN IN '08!

TO: Alice in Florida -

Spin..Spin…Spin…

Obama DID NOT steal any votes. BOTH, Hillary and Obama AGREED to the terms. AND, if you did not know.. Obama WAS NOT ON THE BALLOT in Michigan. Now Hillary, of course - not to anyone's surprise - wants to change the rules to suit her. Sorry…
NOT THIS TIME!!! The fair thing to do at this point is to split all delegates 50/50!!! That's it.

Groan….

That's all we need - more conservative judges legislating from the bench.

Say no to 4 more years of Bush!

A vote for Mc Cain does 2 things….
1. Keeps the Iraq war going
2. roe v. wade overturned

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WANTS TO VOR FOR THIS GUY???

NOT ME!

McCain said Supreme Court Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito "would serve as the model for my own nominees if that responsibility falls to me," highlighting the gap between Republicans and Democrats on the question of who deserves to sit on the nation's highest court. Both justices have established solidly conservative records since President Bush appointed them to the court, and the appointment of just one more conservative on the Supreme Court could tip the balance on questions such as abortion, civil rights, civil liberties and private property.

"My nominees will understand that there are clear limits to the scope of judicial power, and clear limits to the scope of federal power," McCain told a crowd

You have to look at the bright side of this election.
The lines among all three parties, Dem, Republican, and Independent are very blurry.

This may be the beginning of the end of party politics.
Perhaps we Americans can again work together for the good of our country, IF and only IF Hillary is not elected. She is dividing the Dem party as we speak.

You have to look at the bright side of this election.
The lines among all three parties, Dem, Republican, and Independent are very blurry.

This may be the beginning of the end of party politics.
Perhaps we Americans can again work together for the good of our country, IF and only IF Hillary is not elected. She is dividing the Dem party as we speak.

Thanks Sen. McCain,

We already had 8 years of Geoge W. Bush, we do not need a re-run, or imitators: the ORIGINAL was bad enough!!!!!!

CNN, how about you filter out the racism please.

Ex:
The Corp May 6th, 2008 11:53 am ET

Say No to Obama and his band of radicals. And yes, I don't trust his skin color, especially after learning of the wackos he's surrounded himself with. God - Country - Corp!

Todays CNN quick vote question shows just how stupid the voters for the democrats actually are. You idiots will end up with McBush for Prez.

COL.[retd] A.M.Khajawall
Forensic Psychiatrist.
Disables American Veteran.
Las Vegas Nevada.

Leave it to a shrink to endorse a nut!! You are obviously not very good at what you do when you can't even recognize ego in a suit with nothing to offer but rhetoric.

This is why any Democrat that would vote for McCain is really not a Democrat!!
Independant maybe but not a Democrat!!!

Just a comment for Tony-DC. Hey looser you're the wingnut that needs to wake up. She'll be in jail by Nov. because of her upcoming trial into campaign fund raising fraud and you think she's the best option. Get educated looser.

I was ready to jump party lines and vote for McCain of Obama wins the nomination. Now I'll just have to sit at home.

McCain gets my vote if Obama is the Democratic nominee. Barack stole my Florida vote for Hillary, but he won't steal my November Florida vote for McCain.

Justice Alito was confirmed only after the nuclear option was manipulated by the Republican majority. Then, McCain has the audacity to call someone's vote elitist against the nomination. Give me a break–the my way or the highway approach from Republicans was elitist.

Dem '08

Democrats for Mc Cain '08!!

I just read through all the comments and noticed that the MAJORITY of spiteful comments aimed at McCain came from Obama supporters. Here are their names:

David Goldman for Obama
Kathleen retired professional w/woman for Obama
mitchell
mimi de la cruz foe Obama
KMAN
Steve, Madison WI
I'm sure many other nasty, derogatory comments have popped up since I started typing. This list doesn't even include the people who claim that McCain would send us back to the Dark Ages, or the 1800's, or the 18th century. That is what we call fearmongering!

Is this the "hope" and "change" we can expect from an Obama presidency?

Gotta love all the idiots here who think that having judges that follow the Constitution is a bad thing. If you have a problem with judges that follow the Constitution instead of re-interpreting it there is this little thing called a Constitutional convention. Those would be the proper channels to change something and not appointing left leaning judges who like to re-interpret the document upon which this country is founded. There is now room for re-interpretation since the men who wrote the Constitution left plenty of supporting evidence as to what they meant when they wrote it. Of course to know any of this you might actually have to go read some books about the founders of this country. Which for all the liberal claims of being more educated they sure do like to avoid any discussion on what the founding fathers wrote and what they meant when they wrote the Constitution the way they did.

He's a politician and he has to say what he has to just like Obama to win. The fact is McCain is a moderate republican who's not too conservative. Once he's elected conservative will be happy just to say that they've kept the white house. But today everyones eyes are on Indiana where Obama says is the tiebreaker, so if he looses will he drop out? he should.

Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice = McSAME!

Wake the hell up America or shut the hell up when things stay the same or get even worse!

A vote for Obama is a free ride to the White House for McSame and we don't need either.

Vote Hillary!

An ex-Pow is not entitled to the presidency!

McCain is a blood thirst war monger, a racist, a homophobe, a anti-women's rights, rich white elitist! He's married to his billionheiress Stepford wife who contributes NOTHING to society, so I say to them both. Stick it up you…………!

You mean Clarence Thomas could actually go back to being relegated to 'boy' status? And I'm Black too, so nix on the racism posts, ok?

It would be painful to vote for Hillary if she steals the nomination…but I would rather vote for anyone except this gas bag!

HILLARY WILL BEAT McCAIN!!!!!!!

I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS!!!!!!

A SMART WOMAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!

GO HILLARY!!!!!!!!!

Seriously people, the dems have controlled cogress the last 4 years and congress determines what is presented to the pres. now how are we making out? Let's not get focused on party crap let's pick people that aren't subserving to the big donors and lobyist. Sounds to me Barak is the only choice and more like him in congress would certainly hep also.
just one reason why i'm an independent.

Why Sen McCain is upset, Sen OBAMA can support who he want to this is America. GO OBAMA

Well, I'd like to see Obama as the nominee, and if Hil-liar gets the nod I would have voted for McCain — except for pledging another Scalia on the court.

If it's mendacity vs McCain, I'll write in Colin Powell for pres.

Make a choice between McCain and War. Which would you chose?

I dont' have time for McSame now.

If she thinks it will get her votes in a primary, Hillary will agree to appoint right wing judges too.

After more madness, that is all we need more madness.

To you social conservatives, Roe vs Wade will NEVER be changed, it is the blindfold they use to herd you while they get your vote, at the same time taking your rights away and giving it to big business.

The ONLY reason those conservative judges are put there is to protect big business. Don't take my word for it, just go back do your own research in cases where there were clashes between individual people vs big business.

Do you know that these conservative judges have voted that a business is considered an individual? A business has my rights in the eyes of the government, and gaining more every day, while I lose them.

John Roberts isn't a "far right judge".

Oh, he will change his mind tomorrow!!

We need calling McCain "Monte Hall".

I thought McCain wasn't able to be elected anyway, due to the fact that he wasn't born in the U.S.

The laws clearly state that you have to be born IN the U.S., not just be a citizen.

Moving on.

That's why we can't afford mcWar.

Obama 08

Hey Allen DeLuca,

Great job with the "proven conservative principles" over the last 8 years! Obviously, I am so much better today then I was when Clinton was in office. Now go back and watch some more Fox News while you drink your daily kool-aid from Rush, Hannity and O'Reilly.

Thanks Senator McCain! You sealed the deal for me. I will vote for the Democratic candidate!

Also, what have you done for AZ lately?

CNN is a regular liberal lovefest. The blogs are choking with their rhetoric. Most of it rather hateful. How come conservatives that come here don't jump in the ring I wonder. Different breed maybe?

Some of this stuff is amusing but really people is this the agressive nature we will see if a dem takes the prize? I thought you were a bunch of peace lovers.

You people scare me……

And this is the exact reason why anyone, man or woman, who belives in pro-choice and is considering voting against Barack Obama because he is the Dem. nominee and not Hillary should really REALLY think hard before making that choice. If you do go with McCain, BYE BYE Roe v. Wade.

It seems a shame to spend millions on this guy. His presidency is beyond "unlikely."

It is simply amazing a man who thinks adultry is acceptable but abortion is disgraceful. I call it hypocritical.

Yes, John McCain … maverick, principled man of character … yeah right!!! This old fool is just like Hillary in that he will say and do anything to win … America doesn't need either of these pandering overtly partisan politicians as the leader of the nation! They both represent the worst of America's old, tired and worthless political system!

Another "flip-flop" by McCain. Can he pander anymore to the conservative base that he has gone against so many times in the past.

I understand that many conservatives have short memories and rely on Faux Noise for their daily talking points, but come on, McCain has a LONG record on these topics. If CNN would kindly talk about this rather than itself pander to the tabloid journalism seeking crowd, we may actually elect a president who is not a flip-flopping, pandering puppet for corporate America.

CNN and the rest of the corporate media have failed as news organizations. Want proof - do a poll and ask Americans to identify the candidates positons on healthcare, the economy, the war, etc. My guess is a very small percentage could correctly name the candidates positions (and certainly not their past voting records on such things!)

No wonder we end up with the representaives we do - shame on all the media and shame on the American people for remaining uninformed.

After 8 years of Bush and his deconstruction of the American Constitution all we need is 4 more years of the same.

While I respect McCain as a Veteran, it ends there. Democrats and Independence must support who ever the Democratic canidate is in the general election.

But do understand, Clinton has a better chance to beat McCain the Obama.

It seems no one here making comments has a clue about what the United States of America is.
We are a nation, first and foremost forged from the crucible of men desiring to live free, but under a constitution necesary to maintain law and moral decency. The framers were well aware of the need for free men to be 'controlled' only in the sense that, they (we) are allowed to utilize our God given, Preamble explained, Bill of Rights articulated and Constitutionally realized rights.
John McCain just gave us all a thumbnail sketch on what is America and what we are supposed to be as Americans.
Alas … so many in this once magnaminously blessed land have forgotten, perhaps have never learned, that our very personal liberty and freedom(s) have been used to usurp our rights and land … and now, after a messenger has reminded us … some will shoot the messenger.
Not one station carried McCain's speech start to finish.
We'd best be ready to repeat the history that got us here.

It looks like his skin is falling off of his face lol

Sign…..Another McCain flip-flop…..All positioning, no principle…

Hillary 2008!

and this is why anyone who is supporting clinton and obama, must support whichever wins the nomination over mccain.

i dont understand how any of their supporters can see mccain as a viable option.. he is not even close and those that say they will switch are the posers of the democratic party and do not really care about the issues that the party holds most dear..

to anyone democrat who say they will vote for a man who will appoint conservative justices,, i say .. screw you for abandoning the issues over hurt feelings.. get over it,, its politics

You are wrong, Dylan, to think of right wing-ers as reckless. What you need to fear is a government that knows nothing about the world the way it is and will try this and try that ("progressives"/liberals) until everything collapses. Conservatives are steady-on and rely on proven principles only.

McCain is the perfect Republican candidate. Only a far left ideologue like Obama wouldn't vote for John Roberts and Samuel Alito. Obama would like to nominate left wing radicals like his wife (or their Hyde Park friends) to the Supreme Court. These people aren't progressives, they're neo-socialist revolutionaries.

Vote Democrats Please I know I have been the one to say i would not vote for Hillary but the truth is i would vote for a dog if John mccain is the other choice. Democrats we Need to Unite if not Mccain will try to reinstate the Draft because he will need to substain the troops in Iraq and Afghanastan

While I don't entirely trust him McCain is starting to sound like a conservative. A conservative revolution could save this nation. We need to limit government spending, pay down our debt and decrease the size and scope of government at the federal level. A strict constitutionalist in the Supreme Court would ensure that people make decisions for themselves and run their own lives. Lets not forget that we pledged our allegiance to a Republic not to a huge federal government controlling your health care, energy and banking like the Democrats want.

Say No to Obama and his band of radicals. And yes, I don't trust his skin color, especially after learning of the wackos he's surrounded himself with. God - Country - Corp!

My problem with conservatives: abortion laws.

I'm very much anti abortion, but I'm also pro choice. I don't approve of abortion one bit, but if we make it illegal, what will we have?

Back alley abortions and dumpster babies.

Oh, and Haley Rodman Clemson, you sound like you don't believe the Constitution is a living document, well too bad for you that it was designed to be so, huh? You know, if it wasn't amendable, blacks or women wouldn't be voting in these elections anyway.

Get a clue.

This guy is the worst he will try to appoint justices that don't believe in abortion John Mccain I don't care which democrats gets the nomination anymore becaused we can not have Mccain in there for Bush's third term My family could not take it,

I sure hope the dems win the presidency I don't think this nation needs any more right wing 18th century thinking judges like, Scalia, Alito, Roberts & Thomas. McCain can no longer be called a maverick he is pandering to the extremest of the republican party….

One more reason why supporters of each Dem need to fall in line with their former opponent once this nomination process is over.

The general election is going to come down to California and Obama will lose California to McCain (just like he did to Hillary).

MCCAIN-CLINTON 08. SURE TICKET…. WELL, BEATS BARACK MILLHOUSE OBAMA AND O……..LOL

WE READ THE COL."S LONG POST,

AND HE IS QUITE A WRITER.

IT HAS A THING WE HAVE ALL BUT LOST IN POLITICS.

D I G N I T Y

It's on record Senator McCain. Will you change mind later?

What is McCain afraid of, that the Conservatives, or Neo-Cons is what they are if they're the reigning group, are going to crossover and vote for Barack Obama?

McCain needs to stop pandering to the Neo-Cons and stick to his guns. It's his independent mindedness that makes him a contender. If he does not regain his ground, hold the high ground above the scroungers on the right and left, he will alienate the Independents and the Democrats that are going to win him this election, and he will lose. Read your own online poll. 40% of Democrats said they will vote for McCain if their candidate is not nominated. But that can change.

Thank you old man and teleprompter reading McCain!

This type of rhetoric is exactly what we Dems need. This will surely unite our party behind whoever wins the nomination.

THIS issue is why Hillary needs to stop now.

Obama has the delegate count locked up. He is electable (if logic, and not Hillary-hope is used to evaluate it) so they can't pull the plug on him.- that would be political suicide for the party.

The judges are why the looser's contingent has to get behind the winner, especially 'if' Hillary looses. Her liberal female base would have to be idiots to allow a Republican to be in charge when two conservative SCJ's will likely need to be replaced.

Exactly why this guy must be sent to his retirement home, not to DC.

That headline is enough to scare any democrat away.

What in the world have I done to upset CNN? Twice I have tried to post and twice you have not even had the decency to give me a awaiting moderation. You gave some one after me an entire page of remarks and me?

We should install term limits on justices. Very few jobs have lifetime security, why should Congress and judges have it?

That headline is enough to scare any democrat away.

Obama '08

mcbush billary,bloody hands

All the more reason not to vote for this guy.

Remember "Keating Five."

Google it, if you're not in the know.

For those Clinton supporters who claim they will vote for McCain if Obama is the nominee, which he will be, please understand that more neocon federal judges will mean a continued erosion of individual rights and the ideals that make this country great. If you can't get past the color of Obama's skin you deserve exactly what you will get with Bush / McCain. Unfortunately, the rest of us will suffer as well.

did he remember to take his alzheimers medication, maybe he can be quick in thinking. If not Doc please help Mc Esane

All Democrats who foolishly threaten to vote for McCain if their candidate does not become nominee: THIS is what's at stake. A man who will continue to load the highest court in the nation with right-wing ideologues, not to mention an endless war and economy in recession.

Stop treating this election like a sporting event. There's too much at stake. We simply cannot affort 4 more years of the reckless policies of right-wing administrations.

Interesting comment on Hillary…from Huffington Post

her senior thesis on the radical Chicago community-organizer Saul Alinsky (whose best-known philosophical mantra was, "Whatever works to get power to the people, use it."); and then, during the 1992 presidential campaign and White House years, insured that the thesis was locked up in the Wellesley archives and unavailable to reporters.

Sound familiar?

Nothing surprising here. Probably a good idea, seeing how the liberals control the legislative branch. If either party ever controls them all, we're in for bad times.

yes, as some said above this is why we MUST ELECT EITHER DEMOCRAT. to protect the so called balance in the supreme court, or at least restore it. gwb has appointed far right judges, we don't need every seat held by more of these nutjobs.

Just like Clinton…another panderer…promise whatever the people in front of you want to hear..

Another big reason not to have a republican for president. Democrats rule.

right, because that's what we need…..a conservative nut in the supreme court….can we say let's go back to 1800s!!

DEMOCRATS IN 08!!!!!!!

Even in light of this, my preference goes:

Obama > McCain > Clinton

No more Bush's, no more Clintons.

All other concerns are secondary.

this is a man in one year has changed everything about him self, what is he thinking, from tax cuts to conservatism, he is getting more and more like bush, who ever is giving him his advice needs to stop, he use to be in the middle but now is heading far right

hmm,
I am one of those people that is hoping a candidate gets the nomination and if they don't, I will be looking at other options. McCain is a viable option for me…except for this. I don't think we need more conservative justices on the supreme court. We have enough of them there already. We will need someont to replace justice Stevens. Someone who will fill his shoes not someone like Alito.

Balance on the court best reflects the balance in the US. I don't want someone to base their decisions on the way things were in 1780. I want someone that believes in a living/adjusting constitution

BTW - even Scalia believes Thomas is a nut

just make sure you don't give us a Darth Vader Ginsburg…

FORGOT TO LET MCWAR100. THAT IF WE WANT

A NUT CAKE WE WILL CALL ON HIM.

AND BY THE WAY THAT WIFE OF HIS IS A DILLIE.

McCain is only trying to stay in the lime light, but guess what McCanin TODAY AIN'T ABOUT YOU! GET SOMEWHERE AND SIT DOWN!

Another reason DEMS need to unite behind one candidate to prevent this. All you dems out there who believe in right to choose, etc. you better be paying attention. All of you minorities who don't want to lose any of the civil rights your parents fought to get for you, you had better be paying attention.

It's funny because so many democrats are saying they will vote for McCain if their person isn't the nominee. Let's get a long look at reality here and decide if this the way Democrats REALLY want to go!

Don't let something childish get in the way of changing the downward spiral our country is now in!

VOTE DEMOCRAT!

John McCain: "Don't be fooled by the rational, intelligent decisions I sometimes make. When push comes to shove, I'll do everything I can to keep us locked in 1955 forever."

All of that is nice, but the problem is that he won't get elected. He's got a tarnished war record, a former minister that makes Wright look like a choir boy, and he represents a 3rd Bush term. Does anyone believe that Sen. Obama is not going to hit him with everything in the aresenal once Sen. Clinton is out of the way? That is the real beauty of it! Sen.'s McCain and Clinton have used every page in the republican playbook to knock Sen. Obama down, and now Sen. McCain will be just rehashing old dirt. Sen. Obama has a clean slate, and a LOT of ammunition to use on the ole' guy. It's a master stroke of genius.
God I love this!

This makes this conservative liberal happy.
I can trust Senator McCain with my country.

One question from a curious naturalized citizen:

If the executive branch and the judiciary branch are independent of each other, why does the president have the power to appoint federal and supreme court judges?

I guess the required confirmation by the Congress after presidential nomination is sort of a balanced mechanism. Can we do better than this?

There were talks about Hillary's intention to appoint Bill to the Supreme Court for life, if she is elected.
Is this possible? Bill and the laws do not mix. He is not even a Constitutional lawyer. I heard he lost his license to practice law after the impeachment.

SURE ARE LOSING ONE BUSH & WE WILL ELECT

ANOTHER WORSE VERSION. WE HAVEN'T DONE

TOO GOOD IN THE PAST 20 YEARS OR SO WITH

THIS PRES.THING, BUT WE ARE GETTING BETTER.

One more reason why we Dems need to stick together! Even if our candidate can't win the nomination, we should never vote for McSame……

he will appoint judges that will take away a woman's right to choose.we don't need a government that makes our choices ,for us.no more warmongering presidents!mccain won't stand a chance against obama.

THIS IS A MAJOR REASON NOT TO HAVE MCCAIN AS THE NEXT PRESIDENT, SO DEMOCRATS GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER, STOP WITH THE FOOLISHNESS YOU HAVE SHOWN OVER THE LAST 15 MONTHS AND UNDERSTAND WHAT IS AT STAKE. YOU LOST ALOT OF TIME BY HAVING THIS LONG PRIMARY WHICH HURTS YOU NO MATTER WHAT THE HILLARY PUNDITS SAY, IT HURTS YOUR PARTY DRAMATICALLY.

JOHN MCCAIN APPOINTS CONSERVATIVE JUDGES TO DO THE FOLLOWING:

- ROE V WADE - OVERTURNED
- CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS- OVERTURNED, UNDERMIND
- CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY-GONE
- WARRANTLESS WIRE TAPS - THE STATUS QUO
- ACCEPTANCE OF TORTURE - STATUS QUO
- BILL OF RIGHTS - USED AS TOILET PAPER FOR SCALIA
- CONSTITUTION- URINATED AND SHREDDED BY BUSH/CHENEY
- RENDITION(GOOGLE IT)- STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE
- ELECTION BEING DETERMINED BY COURT- JUDGES DECIDE NOT THE PEOPLE
- COUNTRY BECOMES A MONARCHY- POWER SHIFTS TO EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIAL BRANCHES LEAVING THE LEGISLATURE CRIPPLED

We are in deep crap. Vote democrat no matter what. Remember how Justice Scalia was flippant about the 2000 election and said "GET OVER IT THAT WAS A LONG TIME AGO" One of the Supreme Court Justices said to the american people about how he and the court undernined the foundation of american society with a judicial decision to place a president in office and how that is the most horrible thing he and the court did in modern US History. WOW!!! PEOPLE WAKE UP NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After spending 20 years in Rev. Wright’s church, especially the Child endangerment of taking their two little girls makes Obama unsuited to represent Americans with the Moral decisions that will come up over the next 4 years!

Hillary or McCain 08

so instead of touring america and getting his name out and meeting with people he does this, thank god, what a dumb move, why put a target on your back

This man is a total idiot. He reads off the teleprompter all of the time and doesn't even get that right.

A vote for Hillary is a vote for McCain. I read that if Hillary can't win
now, she would rather McCain to win so She Witch and Bill can
run in 2012 and win. SHE DOES NOT WANT OBAMA TO WIN BECAUSE SHE ONLY CARES ABOUT HERSELF.

McCain even sounds "fake" when he is reading off the teleprompter
and talking about "poor america! HE DON'T GIVE A HOOT OR KNOW
WHAT WE ARE GOING THRU WITH THE ECONOMY. IT IS THE
ECONOMY STUPID!

white woman, retired professional, for Obama from Day 1

NUTTY OLD DUDE SHOULD JUST GO HAVE

HIS DELUSIONS IN PRIVATE, & TAKE HIS ZOMBIE

PILL POPPER WITH HIM.

Senator McCain really relies on the use of a teleprompter. He's lost when it comes to public speaking without one. I can't wait to hear how lost he sounds without one when the debates begin between he and Obama.

Senator McCain has to be cautious so as not to alienate the independents. The last two sentences are unnnecessary and illogical!

WE ARE TRYING TO GET RID OF THE CRAZIES ON

THE SUPREME COURT, NOT LOAD IT WITH MORE.

WARBUCKS NEEDS TO FIND A RETIREMENT HOME

FOR NUTCOS & CHECK IN.

Dear Fellow Americans,

Our Great-grand Nation, the United States of America
is and will face very critical and substantial
"Challenges" in coming,
months, years, and decades to come.
It is very essential that we pick out our next
President on following criteria in mind.

1. A candidate with "Vision and Mission".

2. A candidate with " Stable Character and Integrity"
.

3. A candidate with "Presidential Temperament" and
"stable Judgment".

4. A candidate with "little "Washington" exposure"
and
"real connectedness with New Voters".

5. A candidate who "Inspires us up" rather than
"Tears us down".

6. A candidate not based on sexism, racism, and
ageism.

In my professional and personal opinion, the only
candidate who has the above qualities and
characteristics and is also cool, calm, and collected
is Senator Obama.

As an independent registered voter since 1980. I voted
for Carter, voted for Reagan, voted for First Bush,
and second Bush in 2000 and In the process last
interest in Washington politics as usual and I
stopped voting.Not a good idea under any circumstance
particularly at present.

This time we can not afford to stay on side lines and
let Washington stay the same.We can not afford our
Greatgreat Nation to become less than what we are and
can be.

We need to send clear and candid message to the world
and some 24 hour partisan hateful media. These media
outlets are trying to deprive, dupe, and derail us
from getting it right this time.

They are trying there best to deny us better rather
than bitter future. { Our Greatgrand Nations people
are persistently and constantly subjected to
Psychological terrorism" without their knowledge thru
these hateful partisan media outlets.

We Americans are should not and would not to allow
them
psychologically terrorized, traumatized and silence us
this time.

I am sure that we will get it right this
time and elect Senator Obama our next President. let
us not get dragged down into racism, sexism and
ageism.

Let us remember that our Greatgrand is constituted of
family, friends,fellowships, faith, funds,foundation,
fun, and future with fairness and freedom and without
fear or favor.

We can not afford to lose any of above. Let us stand
up, be counted, save, build our Greatgrand Nation for
centuries to come and regain our world economic, and
power status back.

God Bless our Great grand Nation and its diverse
people.

Our Greatgrand nation needs present and future
stability, security, safety,sustained progress and
restoration of our due status in this perilous Global
World at the all levels.

Yours sincerely,

COL.[retd] A.M.Khajawall
Forensic Psychiatrist.
Disables American Veteran.
Las Vegas Nevada.

McCain is nothing but a phony just another Bush!

And now the debate begins on issues and policies. After the last several months of reality tv that we have gotten from cable news organizations instead of news on issues that matters, I hope the general election will not be a carbon copy of the democratic primary. One could hope, right?

"Sen. John McCain moved to shore up his support among conservatives by pledging Tuesday to nominate strict-constructionist judges to the federal bench"

It wil be funny to see how many people freak out over putting "strict-constructionist judges" on the bench. What other type would you want? A judge that makes it up as he/she feels??? So start the freak-out.

Oh yea, just remember that the DNC (O and Hillary too) dicided not to count the vote of the people in two states and also made up Supers to overrule the people if they get it wrong.

McCain wants to add another Samuel Alito or Clarence Thomas. Do we really want more justices that believe corporations have more rights than individuals and do whatever they are told by the Republicans?

If this old fart is allowed to fill the supreme court with his cronies, we will revert to the dark ages people.

This is the reason why all Democrats, Hillary and Obama supporters, MUST unite behind who ever our nominee will be.

Zzzzzzzzzzz!! Snore!

McCain's pledge is not for conservative judges but for strict CONSTITUTIONAL judges. He berates the left-leaning activist judges who inject their social agendas into their rulings. If sticking to the letter of the constitution is conservative, then what is the liberal way of judging? Disregarding the constitution or believing it is a "living, breathing document" (i.e. subject to the whims of leftist fads).

No worries…McCain won't be appointing anyone.

same old, same old. wake up america do not let his war hero title trick you into third term for bush

Oh, dear Lord! Please do not let this man get elected! He sees no reason to change the direction of this war, he has admitted that he doesn't really understand the economy, he said that this foreclosure problem is the fault of stupid homeowners, and now he has vowed to put more conservative, out-of-touch judges in place. This country is going to hell in a handbasket!

The runaway train is now headed directly toward the cliff!

Please vote Dem in November. Vote Obama '08.

Let us not be fooled. The guys Bush and McCain want on the bench are activist judges, only when Republicans do it, it ain't activism. They want to undo the 20th Century. Folks who aren't in the privileged set need to think about what that means.

Promising to stack the deck John?Pro Big Business and the Right Wing Zealots?Not this time my friend.

who's this guy? I thought the election was between HRC and BHO?

The 'real' McCain is beginning to surface.

Ok, that's nica and all. Just make sure they follow the Constitution. I just really hate McCain is the GOP candidate. This is a horrible election year for POTUS. McCain and whoever the last one standing of the two Dem jerks. It is just a shame the GOP has been hijacked by neo-cons and does not represent the true GOP. This party must be taken back by all means necessary.

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