President Obama has had two chances to nominate candidates to the Supreme Court. As always with Obama one has to see what he does and compare it to what he says to appreciate the all too frequent gulf between words and actions.
All during the campaign Obama promised to promote both diversity and also inclusiveness in his appointments, that is, folks who represented a wide swath of all different types of Americans. The Big Tent as it were. He promised to bring America together to promote harmony between all different viewpoints with the intent of bridging differences between the Left and the Right, between Conservatives and Liberals or Progressives as they now call themselves. Obama stressed that he would be the Everyman President listening to all sides and viewpoints from all walks of life and all styles of politics and beliefs. Enough of the strife. Let's all be One Big Happy Family. Instead we have seen his appointments consist of mostly far left liberals, many African-Americans (what you would expect) and with the notable exception of Robert Gates, the Secretary of Defense, no notable Republicans or Conservatives.
The selection of Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan is a case in point. Both are white, single women who went to Yale (Sotomayor) and Harvard (Kagan), one Catholic (Sotomayor, 24% of the population), Jewish (Kagan, 2 % of the population) who both grew in and lived most of their lives in New York City. This is a background that about 99% of the American people don't share or relate too. Of course proponents of these two women expound about their excellent academics, impressive job records and high recommendations from many friends and admirers. Duffy has no doubt that both Sotomayor and Kagan are both well qualified to be on the Supreme Court and both will ably carry forward the Liberal, uh excuse me, Progressive agenda. But Duffy really wished Obama would have picked someone who worked his or her way through a state university, maybe ran for and was elected to a political office even it was dogcatcher, worked for a private profit making company or better yet built their own company, was married with children or even divorced for that matter and to top it off was from the Middle West or the South. In other words someone who could relate to the vast majority of how Americans really live in this country.
It is apparent to Duffy that Obama is a true elitist, one who really does think that "he knows best" for what is good for America. And that he is going to surround himself with the Best and the Brightest" all of whom went to Ivy League colleges and all who share his vision of what's Best for America, i.e. a far left Liberal agenda that is alien to the majority of the American People. Duffy suspects that Obama knows that November he will lose the House and maybe the Senate to the Republicans and November 2012 he will be voted out of office. Therefore time is of the essence to "save America and by the way, save the World too" before he is gone from the scene. Expect to see more of his agenda pushed to get jammed through like Health Care Reform as 2012 approaches. As for the Supreme Court, it doesn't appear there will be any Conservatives leaving any time soon but Obama may have one more chance to replace another Liberal before he leaves. As for "coming together and lets all sing Kumbaya.....". Forget it.
