Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dead at 79

[Phishfan]

How many times has he come out against the 50 or so police officers who were shot, run over or beaten to death last year? He certainly came out to support Trayvon and Michael. 9 more police officers this year alone. His silence is heard by everyone who wants to hear it.

“They put their lives on the line for our safety. Targeting police officers is completely unacceptable — an affront to civilized society.”

"heroes because that's what they are."

"Too often, law enforcement gets scapegoated for the broader failures of our society and criminal justice system,"

“And the family of fellow officers he joined in the NYPD and across the country deserve our gratitude and our prayers not just today but every day. They’ve got a tough job.”

You will have a better time convincing me that President Obama was actually born in Kenya or that he is a Muslim, or even that he replaced the American flag on AF1 with his "O" logo (yes I know people who believed this) than you will convincing me that he is actively supporting riots or cop killings

[pondwater]

And since your want to dig up shit from 30 years ago and think it's relevant. Apparently your vice president and Obama's right hand man thinks that the president should not name a Supreme Court nominee to fill any vacancy during an election year until after the election is completed and that if the president did name a pick during an election year, the Judiciary Committee should “seriously consider” not having hearings until after the campaign is over and that this was “fair to the nominee and essential to the process”.

Video included for your viewing pleasure. Hypocrisy at its finest!

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/02/22/flashback-biden-said-senate-should-not-confirm-scotus-pick-during-election-season/

[Spider-Dan]

He promised to be a post partisan, post racial president. He did not succeed. Whatever the reasons or excuses you want to put up about opposition and obstruction... we are more partisan and more divided along racial lines. Period.

The people who are complaining about how partisan and racial Obama's America has become are almost entirely people who never voted for him in the first place.  Their hollow cries of unfulfilled campaign promises fall on deaf ears.

[Spider-Dan]

You use the word obstruction like they are doing something wrong. It's only wrong because you don't agree with it. It about checks and balances. That's how the system works.

And that's fine.  But don't scream at your Republican politicians that compromise with Obama is SURRENDER and insist that they must take every avenue to block him, then turn around and complain about how "divisive" Obama has been.

And since your want to dig up shit from 30 years ago and think it's relevant. Apparently your vice president and Obama's right hand man thinks that the president should not name a Supreme Court nominee to fill any vacancy during an election year until after the election is completed and that if the president did name a pick during an election year, the Judiciary Committee should “seriously consider” not having hearings until after the campaign is over and that this was “fair to the nominee and essential to the process”.

Already asked and answered; both parties have said in the past that no one should be nominated, and (importantly) there was no nominee when Biden (and later, Schumer) made those statements.

But when there actually WAS a nominee, the Democrats confirmed him in an election year.  So I would be happy to accept empty political bluster followed by an election-year confirmation by the GOP... exactly as the Democrats did.  No hypocrisy at all.

[Sunstroke]

“They put their lives on the line for our safety. Targeting police officers is completely unacceptable — an affront to civilized society.”

"heroes because that's what they are."

"Too often, law enforcement gets scapegoated for the broader failures of our society and criminal justice system,"

“And the family of fellow officers he joined in the NYPD and across the country deserve our gratitude and our prayers not just today but every day. They’ve got a tough job.”

You will have a better time convincing me that President Obama was actually born in Kenya or that he is a Muslim, or even that he replaced the American flag on AF1 with his "O" logo (yes I know people who believed this) than you will convincing me that he is actively supporting riots or cop killings

Truth? Logic? Do you really think that shit is gonna fly around here? 

[fyo]

This thread has certainly gone off on a tangent...

[Cathal]

This thread has certainly gone off on a tangent...

It's politics. What would you expect? 

[Fau Teixeira]

I'm pretty sure Obama tried compromising with Republicans plenty in his first term. He initially wanted a universal healthcare system, then he went to a single payer system like expanded medicare, Then finally "compromised" with republicans and proposed a Republican plan for healthcare that heavily benefited the private sector insurance companies. And he still got no votes from Republicans and then got taken to court 589 times after the law was passed.

2nd term obama is the give no fucks obama. It's obvious he tried already to compromise and that bit him hard, so he's learned his lesson.

[Spider-Dan]

I agree with Fau's assessment; Obama's first term consisted primarily of him trying to prove that he could be "bipartisan" and having his hand slapped away repeatedly by Republicans.  His second term has been much more realistic in terms of dealing with the opposition.