It's interesting in me to read the news on Alito, the new supreme court nominee to replace Sandra Day O'Conner. Now, I'm not in the midst of things, not even being in the same country, but thanks to google news (see the side bar) I think I stay decently up-to-date.
Any, it's this article that especially gets my attention: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/15/national/15confirm.html
What I find interesting is how this article is only one of many that likes to point out that he's supposed to be replacing the woman who was a swing voter in abortion. Now I begin to wonder, when did the ammendment get added that "A supreme court nominee is to duplicate his predecessor in his actions." That seems to be the point there. You know, if this was always the case then blacks would still have their own horrible schools that they were mandated by law to stay in. It's amazing to me how politics seem to shift and slide.
Or take the recent events in Israel versus Iraq. In Israel people are practically forcing the U.S. into dictating terms. We're talking a country completely independent of us that's waging it's own war (however you want to define it, it IS a pretty contained conflict). Now flip over to Iraq, a country that was SHOOTING AT OUR PLANES, and we're just a bunch of busybodies. Now where the heck does the line belong? It confuses the heck out of me just trying to decide where things belong.
We are such a race of hypocrites, and I do mean that globally, I'm just as bad as any of you. On one issue we're all soft and compassionate (usually because it effects us directly), and then on another we're very free with our apathy. We draw ridiculous lines as standards, that zig-zag as bad as congressional districts.
For instance, did you realize that Clinton actually was trying to do some things about al-Quaida, Afghanistan, and Iraq. However, when he started to put it into work, Republicans threw a fit because he was "trying to distract" from the whole Monica Lewinsky scandal. Now I'm by no means a Clinton fan, but I don't have to be to see the whole problem with THAT paticular attitude and it's effect on where we are today.
I guess it's a problem of perspective in that we, as humans, are so limited. If things aren't going how we want it's someone's fault, and definitely not ours. And consistency doesn't matter. After all if it did, we'd have to admit it's our own fault. It's really amazing God can still love us after all that isn't it?
Responsibility. This is the word that has been taken out of the english language all together. That's why we want to blame everyone for everything. It is never "my fault." This has become the status quo and people prefer that. I know forcing people to think (forget thinking outside the box anymore, just think) can really get one labeled as a not so nice thing. Politics is something that we won't ever understand because we don't think that way alex, we just don't.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I have more of your posts to comment on and chris and i are going out tonight.
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