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Sowell on Obama

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

Thomas Sowell has this column on Barack Obama, noting that eagerness to have a black President is not a good reason to elect this particular person as President: Just the power to nominate federal judges to trial courts and appellate courts across the country, including the Supreme Court, can have an enormous impact for decades to come. There is no point feeling outraged by things done by federal judges, if you vote on the basis of emotion for those who appoint them. Barack Obama has already indicated that he wants judges who make social policy instead of just applying the law. He has already tried to stop young violent criminals from being tried as adults. Although Senator Obama has presented himself as the candidate of new things ? using the mantra of "change" endlessly ? the cold fact is that virtually everything has says about domestic policy is straight out of the 1960s and virtually everything he says about foreign policy is straight out of the 1930s...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on May 04, 2008 (boomark / email).