Nay to Elena
We can argue all we want about the pros and cons of appointing Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. It doesn't much matter because it's already a done deal. Earl opined that the blot on her record is the fact that she didn't hire one person of color while serving as dean at Harvard Law School. But that would be saying that one of color or minority has to be appointed because of his color. Besides, does anyone know how many blacks, Hispanics and Asians applied?
The outer shell shouldn't be a get a free employment pass. It's one's qualifications and how hard a person has worked for a goal rather than race, creed or ethnicity that should be the deciding factor - in theory anyway.
I'd rather not see her on the bench because this country is going to lean so far to the left we're going to fall into the Pacific Ocean. In the end, it may not much matter because we're (hopefully) going to have a more centrist or conservative government in the future. And we've already seen hints of it by the election of Republicans to offices that had been Democratic so long that the party was practically engraved in a nameplate. Let's keep up the roll.
I agree with Gail. I have lived in LA Calif since '51, except for USMC, Okinawa, Kansas City Mo, NC, etc. The Left coast is truly LEFTIST, far left extremists. I have personally NOT gotten jobs because I am "White" even though I am darker than Fabien Nunez or his killer knife weilding son, darker than Art Torres of Calif State govt fame. Art Torres said "We will take back Calif brick by brick, block by block." Despite being white and required to score in the 90s to get a city job, I now have 35 years city/DWP employment. My experience is that whether white or black or Asian or Hispanic, if you work hard, study hard, never give up you will succeed and find your niche. Race should have ZERO effect on all this. But sadly it does. We have Reconquista council members, Mayors, all over Calif and Los Angeles. By sheer numbers reconquista is happening, without firing a shot. No uniforms no Mexican Ruelas declaring War on the USA. Just millions strolling across our borders.