RNC: ""Why No Blacks On SCOTUS Shortlist?"

[BlooInBloo]

(facepalm)

:rofl:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/29/day-after-accusing-obama_n_556973.html

"One day after it accused DNC Chairman Tim Kaine of playing the "race card" from the bottom of the deck, the Republican National Committee is blasting out an op-ed that accuses the president of ignoring African-American candidates for the Supreme Court.

On Thursday, RNC Coalitions Director Angela Sailor sent out a column written by former Virginia Governor Doug Wilder titled "Why no blacks on SCOTUS shortlist?" The piece attacks the administration for putting together a short list of potential nominees that lacks "even the hint of a mention of a single African-American."

A Democrat and frequent Obama critic, Wilder's charge is debatable itself. While the top echelons of likely court candidates include three prominent white candidates, the so-called "short list" drafted by the White House does include Leah Ward Sears, the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. state of Georgia and an African-American female.

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[Bicoastal]

1. BARACK OBAMA DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE!

:rofl:

[fishwax]

4. lol

:rofl:

[SwampG8r]

2. ....uhhhhhhhhhhhh...

[Tim4319]

3. How about the RNC answer.....

Why there aren't any black Republican senator's?

[hughee99]

22. Given African-American support of Repukes

it's not like they have a lot of candidates to pick from. Historically, both parties have only had 3 AA senators each, though 2 of the repukes were from the Reconstruction Era.

[pinto]

5. LOL. Straws...grasp.

:eyes:

[liberal N proud]

6. This has to be a new low for the GOP

:rofl:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

29. desperate and predictable

[gateley]

7. Are they TRYING to be funny?

[MiniMe]

8. Let's see, because Obama doesn't make race a criteria, he goes by best available

That is one of the dumbest things I have heard. You don't pick a Supreme Court nominee based on race. If there were 2 candidates who were equal in all other ways, it could sway a decision one way or the other, but that is the only way I can see that it would matter.

[Cha]

9. The rnc is one big racist bigoted assdome but

what's up with Wilder?

"A Democrat and frequent Obama critic, Wilder's charge is debatable itself. While the top echelons of likely court candidates include three prominent white candidates, the so-called "short list" drafted by the White House does include Leah Ward Sears, the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. state of Georgia and an African-American female."

[DRoseDARs]

10. Maybe I missed something, but has the WH even released any names?

Oh, wait, they did? And there's an African-American on the list?



*For those of you not in the know: That little kid is an established Internet meme because of what it LOOKS like he's saying. He really isn't saying "That's racist!" I'm sure, probably some Sesame Street dialogue, but this is the Internet.

[Kber]

11. Oh - that's rich.

I guess the next question is why Rider doesn't take Leah Ward Sears' potential nomination seriously. Personally, I think it's because she's black.

:)

[Nancy Waterman]

12. This is Rove's playbook

Attack where the opponent is strongest. African American's don't want to be taken for granted, and Obama doesn't want to be seen as biased in favor so he could lean the other way. This kind of badgering could sow seeds of doubt in some.

Of course, if he did pick someone African American, the GOP would be all over it calling him a racist. Best he find someone qualified above anything else.

[BlooInBloo]

13. It will "sow the seeds of doubt" in none. It's just laughable.

[Bitwit1234]

14. I see bush appointed two lily whites....no blacks.

[WI_DEM]

15. How many African-Americans did George W. Bush appoint to the Supreme Court?

[Tempest]

16. How many blacks were on any of Bush's short list?

I'm betting the number of blacks on any of his short lists amounts to less than 1% of all his lists.

[Arkana]

18. I remember one--that fascist Janice Rogers Brown.

[Arkana]

17. *facepalm*

You've got--GOT--to be fucking kidding me.

[opihimoimoi]

19. PRESIDENT OBAMA Picks from a short list,,,,its his choice for a nom, he won

The RNC can go FUCK THEMSELVES w a TV REMOTE

[DrToast]

20. It's a trap! They're trying to unload Michael Steele on us!

[Kber]

25. snarf

:)

[and-justice-for-all]

21. ....

:dunce: Dumb as a rock.

[StatGirl]

23. I want Anita Hill on the short list!

Just so that we get another pick when Clarence Thomas's head explodes.

[MadMaddie]

24. oooooooohhh that would be some good reality TV now wouldn't it?

:popcorn: :popcorn: :toast:

[boppers]

26. The RNC wants quotas?

wow.

[AtomicKitten]

27. O's obviously a racist.

:P

[Hekate]

28. FAIL. Are they trying to show up Clarence Thomas for the tool he is? How about Prof. Anita Hill?

Anyway, I think the RNC thinks they're being funny.

Hekate

[Orsino]

30. The progressive RNC wants a minority nominee to filibuster.

So they think. I believe that would work against them.

[yellowcanine]

31. Has the White House put out an official "short list"? Are they criticizing a hypothetical list?

Isn't that kind of nutty?

[Doctor_J]

32. Michael Steele already has a job

otherwise he'd be the first choice.