Politics, Supreme Court

Poll: Only 36 Percent Support Biden’s Pledge To Exclude Supreme Court Candidates on the Basis of Race and Gender

We previously discussed the ABC poll showing that 76 percent of Americans opposed President Joe Biden’s pledge only to consider black women for the seat being vacated by Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court. The pledge was unnecessary as it was unprecedented as a categorical exclusion of any candidates on the basis of their race and gender.  While many in the media and academia have attacked those raising concerns over such a threshold exclusion, the public continues to oppose the pledge according to a new poll.  Only 36 percent stated that they thought that the pledge was “a good idea.” 
      The poll found that 55 percent believe that nominating a Black woman is either “not very” important (19 percent) or “not at all” (36 percent) important to them. Only 23 percent said it was very important as a criteria.The poll reflected that most citizens are uncomfortable with such threshold exclusions as opposed to diversity as an element to be balanced.
      One of the more interesting questions in the poll was whether “the best possible candidate should be chosen regardless of race, gender or sexuality” or whether “the best possible Supreme Court should include qualified justices with a variety of backgrounds and experiences.” Almost half (49 percent) of those polled did not want race, gender or other criteria to be weighed in the selection. Some 41 percent supported the inclusion of such issues as an element in the selection of a nominee. That is just 5 percent more than the core 36 percent who thought it was a good idea to exclude candidates on the basis of race or gender.

 

282 thoughts on “Poll: Only 36 Percent Support Biden’s Pledge To Exclude Supreme Court Candidates on the Basis of Race and Gender”

  1. John Durham’s recent filing links Hillary Clinton was responsible for the Trump smear she planned starting back in 2016.

    Lock her up

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-october-tweets-resurfaced

    Hillary Clinton 2016 tweets pushed now-debunked claim of Trump use of ‘covert server’ linked to Russia
    Clinton tweet that it was ‘time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia’

    filing by Special Counsel John Durham on Feb. 11 which revealed that Clinton campaign lawyers worked with a technology company and “assembled and conveyed” allegations about Trump’s ties to Russia to present to the FBI and a second federal government agency.

    The motion on Feb. 11 focused on potential conflicts of interest related to the representation of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who has been charged with making a false statement to a federal agent. Sussmann has pleaded not guilty.

    1. You want Hillary Clinton locked up without being charged? That sounds unAmerican.

      What crime do you want her indicted for?

      Durham didn’t say that Hillary Clinton committed a crime. Do you think he missed it? In fact, he didn’t mention Hillary Clinton at all in his most recent filing, which was only a motion “to inquire into potential conflicts of interest arising from the representation of the defendant by his current counsel, Latham & Watkins LLP” (https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60390583/35/united-states-v-sussmann/)

  2. To clarify, would it be fine with Turley and others if Biden wanted to nominate and did nominate a qualified black woman to the Court with an intent and process similar to Reagan with O’Conner, Bush with Thomas, and Trump with Barrett? Similarly Turley and others are you fine with affirmative action and preferences and simply against quotas and exclusions? Thanks.

    2. The president must nominate the irrefutably and definitively most qualified candidate on two criteria: Merit and merit.

      If one desires anything less for America, one is not a bonafide citizen of the United States.

  3. Was the Biden appointment of Sam Britton, Deputy Assistant Director, Department of Energy ever posted on the blog?? Interesting BIO??

  4. Let me rephrase that.

    36% of Americans, mostly Democrats, support racial and gender discrimination of Supreme Court Justice appointees.

  5. The real problem here is that Biden is making political pledges for “points.”
    Rather, if this is how he feels as Pres., then elect whomever he chooses – without the bias announcement.
    People will still make of it what they will, but the presumption is on them…

  8. 20 million black women, and 250 million Americans exist in the United States.

    It is a physical axiom that the most qualified candidate exists in the largest pool of Americans.

    An inferior candidate exists in the smaller pool of African women.

    Joke Biden will willfully and deliberately pick an absolutely inferior candidate when he chooses from a pool of black women.

    Joke Biden, in conjunction with his mentor, Brack Obmama, is bound and determined to destroy and “fundamentally transform the United States of Americans” into a third world —-hole.

    The wholly antithetical, anti-American and unconstitutional political disease, communist-affirmative-action-cum-“fundamental-transformation,” has spread too far and must be terminated with extreme prejudice.

  9. A store owner posts the following sign on his front door:

    To be a customer, you must:

    1. Be able to pay
    2. Wear a shirt
    3. Wear shoes
    4. Be polite
    5. Be white
    6. Be male

    Then with a straight face, he tells you: “I’m not a sexist or racist. Didn’t you see the other 4 criteria?”

    The only way you let him get away with that is if you’re dishonest, and he’s a democrat.

    1. Speaking of the Intent of the Store Owners…
      ___________________________________

      Naturalization Act of 1790, 1795, 1798 and 1802 (four iterations)

      United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790

      Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof…
      _____________________________________________________________________________________

      1788 Election

      Vote Criteria: Male, European, Age 21, Net Worth 50 llbs. Sterling/50 Acres

      Turnout: 11.6%

      1. …and then there was The Civil Rights Act of 1964. We have come a long way since. Why dwell on the antiquities when they have been remedied?

        1. Doris, let me introduce you to George. He believes that women shouldn’t have the right to vote and that formerly enslaved Black Americans should have been sent to Africa after the Civil War. He’s an extreme bigot. That’s why he dwells on “antiquities”: he prefers them to what we have now.

          1. “Just the facts, Ma’am.”

            – Joe Friday
            _________

            Abraham Lincoln illegally seized power as a despot and dictator.

            Everything Lincoln did was unconstitutional.

            Everything Lincoln did was antithetical to the Constitution and the intent of the Founders.

            Everything Lincoln did supported the Communist Manifesto and was praised by Karl Marx.

            Everything Lincoln did violated the Constitution and Naturalization Act of 1802.

            Every act and unintended consequence of Lincoln was illicit and invalid, and remains illegitimate to this day, most certainly, the “Reconstruction Amendments” which were improperly ratified with Lincoln’s gun to America’s head under the duress of brutal post-war military occupation, all of which is not enumerated as the amendment process in the U.S. Constitution.

            Do you, or do you not believe America is a society of laws?

            Do you propose to obey only the laws you like?

            Lincoln taught Americans to obey the laws they like, and to disobey the laws they don’t like.

            Lincoln nullified the Constitution and commenced the incremental imposition of communism in America, when he should have pursued the legal means of ending slavery: Advocacy, boycotts, divestiture, etc.
            ____________

            “These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.”

            – Abraham Lincoln, from his first speech as an Illinois state legislator, 1837
            __________________________________________________________

            “Everyone now is more or less a Socialist.”

            – Charles Dana, managing editor of the New York Tribune, and Lincoln’s assistant secretary of war, 1848
            __________________________________________________________________________________

            “The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world.”

            – Karl Marx and the First International Workingmen’s Association to Lincoln, 1864
            ________________________________________________________________

            Congratulatory letter to Abraham Lincoln from Karl Marx, January 28,1865: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm
            ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

            The American fertility rate is in a “death spiral” as more Americans die than are born. The fertility rate is exclusively a function of females. Females have failed to produce a population of Americans sufficient to grow and defend America. The population of the United States is imported as Americans vanish.
            _____________________________________________________________________________________

            “The world’s population is accelerating towards collapse, but few seem to notice or care.”
            ”I try to set a good example. Gotta practice what I preach (Musk has 6 kids).”
            “If people don’t have more children, civilization is going to crumble. Mark my words.”
            “There are not enough people.”
            “I can’t emphasize this enough, there are not enough people.”
            “[Low and rapidly declining birth rates are] one of the biggest risks to civilization.”
            “Good, smart people [think there are too many people in the world and that the population is growing out of control]. It’s completely the opposite.”
            “[The] movement to not have children owing to fears over climate change is growing and impacting fertility rates quicker than any preceding trend in the field of fertility decline.”

            – Elon Musk
            __________

            Pope Francis Decries Italy’s Record-Low Birthrate as a ‘Tragedy’ – 26 Dec 2021

            ROME – Pope Francis lamented Italy’s plummeting birthrate Sunday, calling the situation a “tragedy” on the day the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Holy Family.

            “I have a concern, a real concern, at least here in Italy: the demographic winter.”
            “It seems that many couples prefer not to have children or to have only one child. Think about this. It is a tragedy.”
            “Let us do everything possible to regain an awareness to overcome this demographic winter that goes against our families, our country, and even our future.”
            Ten days ago, the Italian statistics bureau ISTAT reported that the nation’s birthrate fell to a record low in 2020, with the country registering just 1.17 births per woman among Italian citizens.

            Italian births in 2020 dropped well below a half million (404,892), falling by 15,000 from 2019 figures.
            Italy’s fertility rate of 1.17 children per woman is significantly below the replacement level of roughly 2.1 children per woman. Globally, Italy is ranked 216 out of 227 countries for new live births as a percentage of the total population, with just 8.4 live births per 1000 citizens.
            On Sunday, Pope Francis published a letter to married couples in which he urged them to see the arrival of children as a gift of God.
            “Children are always a gift; they change the history of every family.”
            “Being parents calls you to pass on to your children the joy of realizing that they are God’s children, children of a Father who has always loved them tenderly and who takes them by the hand each new day.”
            “Children need a sense of security that can enable them to have confidence in you and in the beauty of your life together, and in the certainty that they will never be alone, whatever may come their way.”

            – Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

            1. Yet day after day, you spend your time here instead of making babies.

              If you think there are too few people in the world, your choices are pretty strange.

              1. Brilliant! Simply brilliant!

                Was that for me, Elon Musk or the Pope?

                What a ——- d— —!

                Whatever will you do without affirmative action and welfare – when will you stand on your own?

                When will you proffer reparations to actual American taxpayers for the $25 trillion stolen since the inception of the Great Society, the War on Poverty (poverty won), the American Welfare State and the imposition of the inane and unconstitutional Civil Rights of 1964, all ultimately illicitly engendered by “Crazy Abe” Lincoln’s gun to America’s head.

                Please accept my apology.

                I foolishly engaged in a pseudo-debate with an unarmed opponent.

                That won’t happen again.

                1. That was for you, George, because you regularly complain about the low birth rate in the US. You take no responsibility for your role in it.

                  I’m white and have never been on welfare, but don’t let facts stand in your way of a nice delusion.

                  1. So you readily admit that you are nothing but a false construct of affirmative action, having accomplished nothing nor created even one dollar of wealth of your own ideation, acumen, capacity and ambition.

                    2. Your effete ad hominems constitute immutable proof of your patent admissions.

                      You have nothing.

                      You offer nothing.

                      You are unarmed and bereft of effective debate or efficacious riposte.

        2. Or Anon, it could mean George understands the USC with/our Rights & that if you or a group wishes to change it they should go through the legal procedure for changing the USC.

          And at this time I’m personal firmly against a Artical 5 ConCon, Hell, we don’t have a non-corrupted elections.

          1. Oky1,

            You do realize that there was a Constitutional amendment give women the right to vote, right? George objects to that Amendment.

            I gather from your comments that you’re married. Ask your wife if she agrees with George that women shouldn’t have the right to vote. How about you: do you think women should have the right to vote, per our Constitution, or do you wish like George that that Amendment hadn’t been adopted?

            Or consider the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments duly enacted after the Civil War. George objects to those too. How about you: do you object to those?

            Can you agree that these Amendments DID “go through the legal procedure for changing the USC”?

            1. Not to get to far down that rabbit hole, let me remind you of today’s time.

              It’s more the 100% clear now of complete Election Fraud in 2020 & most likely in many other elections in the US.

              So it’s now been proven by evidence Biden/Harris Lost. They then appoint an AG others….. All Fruit by the poisonous Tree.

              AKA: 13th,14th,15th.

              But you’re arguing that you Robbed the Bank, but the Citizens/Cops didn’t catch you at 1st but now You’ve Been Caught on audio/video/docs & You’re arguing the Citizen’s cash is yours Free & Square.

              And if we don’t wear a Mask & take all your mRNA Bio-Weapon Death/Clot Shots your Mask/mRNA shots Won’t Work so you people want sh*ot Canuck/USA Truckers.

              Com’on, just go get a new Drug Dealer. lol:)

            2. Anon,

              What if my wife was Black as I hear Joe Rogan’s wife is Black?

              Imagine how they & other people feel that no matter how smart or hard they work, nor merit, that because of Globalist Mocking of us all & their Politicians/Old Media/Old BigTech puppets are telling everyone the only way they can become a Supreme Court Justice is because they were part of an Affirmative Action Program, had a Vagina & Boobs that are Black & thus were accepted to an elitist Federal Society school, only then can they possible make it to the SC?

              And note Biden/Dims/Rinos also think those black women also need a new govt paid for Crack Pipes.

              Aside from all that what could an Okie like I say to offend women & blacks worst then the Globalist Groomers of the Stool?

      2. If you get time to watch George to 2hrs of the Alex Jones 2/13/2022. Archived later at Banned.Video

        AKA SP Durham release & other giant news releases on Super Bowl weedend while many are busy with other stuff. (LOL nice typo “weedend” lol, no weed here.)

        *********

        Bombshell: Pfizer CEO Admits COVID-19 Created in Lab
        by Jamie White
        February 13th 2022, 12:37 pm

        https://www.infowars.com/posts/bombshell-pfizer-ceo-admits-covid-19-created-in-lab/

    2. And what if the President only considers conservative white Christians, like Trump did?

      What do you think of:

      To be a customer, you must:

      1. Be able to pay
      2. Wear a shirt
      3. Wear shoes
      4. Be polite
      5. Be white
      6. Be Christian
      7. Be conservative

      At this point, do you decide that a President appointing a Justice is unlike a store owner posting a sign about customers, or do you conclude that all Presidents are bigots because they all use considerations that wouldn’t be legal for a store owner?

      1. “What do you think of:”

        The same thing I think of all deflections — Nothing.

        Try to stay focused. Using race and sex as criteria (as Biden is doing) is racist and sexist.

        “[A] President appointing a Justice is unlike a store owner posting a sign about customers . . .”

        Really? So selecting a person on the basis of race and sex is *unlike* selecting a person on the basis of race and sex?!

        Your use of phony distinctions is an attempt to rationalize your desires.

        1. You and I have different opinions about whether it’s a deflection.

          “Really?”

          Yes, really: a President appointing a Justice is unlike a store owner posting a sign about customers. It is stupid (my opinion) to draw an analogy to a store owner, as they aren’t analogous situations.

  10. OT

    AGENT PROVOCATEUR?
    _____________________

    “ANOTHER JAN 6, INFILTRATOR?”

    Megan Paradise, the Ray Epps Female Clone, Caught on Megaphone Directing Trump Supporters to US Capitol, Broke into Lawmaker’s Office, Filmed the Room, Has Not Been Arrested

    – Joe Hoft

  12. OT

    FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS ABSOLUTE

    The corrupt judicial branch notwithstanding.
    __________________________________

    “…I thought that he was going to be thrown in jail.”

    NBA Star Enes Kanter Freedom

    Q: Mr. Freedom, you have a unique last name. What does it mean to you, since it’s your name of choice and not from your parents?

    A: I remember my first time coming to America in 2009, I came here to play basketball and go to school at the same time. I remember we were in the locker room and one of my teammates criticized the president of America. And I was very scared for him because I thought that he was going to be thrown in jail.

    I even asked him … ‘Hey, you know … aren’t you scared?’ He turned around and laughed and said, ‘This is not Turkey.’ And he tried to explain to me a little bit about what freedom of speech means. I was still very shocked and amazed at the same time, and I researched, and I found out that not every country in the world is like Turkey.

    And that’s why I wanted to make that word part of me and carry it everywhere I go. I also want all the young kids out there, NBA fans, sports fans out there, to just research about what freedom means and (that’s) why I chose that last name.

    – VOA News

  13. Does this mean that white women will need to go around in black face if they want a shot at the job?

            1. “Me” is grammatically correct, but then I suspect your 10th grade English teacher gave you rather low marks. Did you pass, George?

              1. Ah, you’re so like Lincoln; you obey the laws you like and you disobey the laws you don’t like.

                Good for you, comrade buffoon.

                1. The grammarians appear to agree with George, but I’ll stick with the rail-splitter, Ol’ Honest Abe. 🙂

                  1. Ah, the consummate contradiction in terms: Honesty and “Crazy Abe” Lincoln, the high criminal, whose penalty was severe and deserved.

              2. FWIW, David, I agree with George on next to nothing, but he is also correct on this.

                Did your English teacher teach you about the predicate nominative? When the subject and object are the same, it’s grammatically correct to use the subject form of the pronoun instead of the object form (“that was I,” “it is he”). However, most people don’t follow this grammatical rule in their everyday speech and instead say “that was me” and “it’s him.”

                1. You agree with the laws of English but not the law of formal Naturalization Acts and the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the United States.

                  Start here: Secession was and remains fully constitutional – end of discussion for “Crazy Abe” – no war, no death, no destruction, preceding the search for a legal end to slavery.
                  ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                  THERE IS NO PRECLUSION OR PROHIBITION OF SECESSION IN THE CONSTITUTION

                  “There is no provision in the U.S. Constitution which prohibits a state from seceding from the union. This is made clear by a proposal which was made at the 1787 Constitutional Convention to grant the new federal government the specific power to suppress a seceding state. James Madison, widely acknowledged as the key founding father of the Constitution and scholar, rejected this proposal stating, “A Union of states containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a state would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment and would probably be considered by the party attacked as dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound.” The assurance of state sovereignty is embodied in the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution, which reserves to the states all rights which have not been specifically delegated to the federal government. As the federal government was never delegated the right to force the states into violent submission, secession is properly a legal right which can be exercised at any time.”

                  “Thomas Jefferson, of course, made clear his distrust of an all-powerful federal government and palpable fear that the will of the people could easily be hijacked. As he stated in the Federalist Papers, “Where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy.”

                  – Arnold Loewy and Charles Moster
                  ____________________________

                  Naturalization Act of 1802 (in full force and effect in 1863)

                  United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790

                  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof…

  14. OT

    Special Counsel John “Will-He-Dudley-Do-Right” Durham, Where Are You?
    ___________________________________________________________

    DURHAM FINDS HILLARY INFILTRATED TRUMP SERVERS IN WHITE HOUSE AND TRUMP TOWER

    Trump accuses Hillary Clinton campaign of TREASON after Special Counsel John Durham said they paid tech firm to hack into his White House and Trump Tower servers to find Russia links

    Hillary Clinton’s lawyers worked to ‘infiltrate’ Trump Tower, White House servers
    Claim was made in John Durham’s investigation which brought charges against an FBI attorney and a former Hilary Clinton campaign worker
    Donald Trump reacted furiously on Saturday, saying those involved were guilty of treason
    He also added that such behavior would previously have resulted in execution
    Durham was appointed by then-Attorney General William Barr to lead a review into the Russia investigation
    Trump’s most fervent supporters believe officials in the Obama administration looked to sabotage Trump’s candidacy in 2016 and later his presidency
    He said Durham’s investigation would reveal the truth, but lamented that the findings did not come before his 2020 presidential election loss
    Durham’s investigation brought charges against an FBI attorney and a former Hilary Clinton campaign worker
    It also led to the arrest of a Russian-born spy charged with lying to FBI agents
    Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation yielded no evidence of criminal conspiracy or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials
    After Mueller’s investigation, Barr appointed Durham to investigate origins of the FBI’s original Russia probe, which began in July 2016

  15. So? The public is dumb (but less so then the bulk of the MAGA commentators on this blog).
    First, Trump was always going to pick a white Christian for his SCOTUS appointments, and no R had any issue with that.
    Second, it is more likely that Biden already know who he was going to nominate (or had a short list) and know that they were all black women, so he was not limiting himself, but giving us a hint on who it could be.

  16. Black people need more representation in the KKK. There are too many white people as it is.

  17. To all you bigots out in America:
    It’s time we have a female on the court who is a minority.

  18. You know what’s really getting sad here? Americans are letting “polls” dictate their political ideology and preferences. This is getting crazy. Who conducts these polls, NBC? ABC? CNN? Washington Post? What does that tell us? Several studies have concluded that “polls” may influence the moms and pops of America, notwithstanding “loaded questions,” “herd polling,” selective demographic/geographic participants, and narrowed choices in response alternatives.

  19. Jonathan: In 1991 67% of Americans said that if the Anita Hill’s claims of sexual harassment were true Clarence Thomas should be denied appointment to the SC. Same with Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. 69% opposed his nomination based on Christine Blasey Ford’s accusation of sexual assault. 63% support ending lifetime appointments because they think the Court has become too political in recent years. I doubt you would support ending lifetime appointments–despite the polls. Presidents don’t rely on polls to make their selections–nor should they. Trump didn’t nor should Biden. Your argument is a straw man to justify Fox’s position: “Anybody but a Black woman!”

    Speaking of Trump this Superbowl Sunday ( my money is on the Bengals) did you see his latest scam? Trump’s penchant for turning his political and legal troubles into fundraising schemes to line his pockets is legend, e.g., Trump University. Bait and switch is the center of his fundraising tactics. Now Trump is using Melania as the front person for a new scam in Florida. On April 9, 2022 Melania will be the “Special Guest” at the “Tulips and Topiaries” high tea “charity” event in Naples, Florida with tickets going for as high as $50K. The event is supposed to raise money through the “Foster the Future” charity to fund computer science scholarships for foster children. There is only one problem. “Foster the Future” is not a registered charity in Florida as required by law. Melania responded to press reports by saying it was “dishonest reporting” and “corrupt media”. Classic Trump when they get their hands caught in the cookie jar. Melania went on to explain that the “Bradley Impact Fund” will select the charities to receive the donations. Bradley is part of a network of organizations still pushing Trump’s big lie about the 2020 election. We all know Trump needs money badly. His properties are not doing well. His $340 million in loans from Deutsche Bank are due in 2024. Trump faces multiple lawsuits in NY and Georgia. We know lawyers don’t come cheap. For those of your big Trump supporters who might be tempted to buy a ticket to Melania’s “high tea” I have a bit of advice: Buyer beware!

    1. Trump has been using his PAC to funnel money into his own pockets via rentals at his properties.

      Shane Goldmacher on Twitter: “In 2021, Trump’s PAC spent more money on rent at Trump Tower (~$375k) than he gave away to other candidates he has endorsed (~$350k). Many of those candidates, in turn, spent at Trump properties. Herschel Walker spent $135k at Mar-a-Lago alone.”
      https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1492498297977810945
      the Twitter thread includes a link to reporting about it

      1. So is that illegal, immoral, or fattening.

        Or just bad when a Republican does it? We should compare that to Obama’s PACs, but we won’t.

        1. You won’t because you can’t show that Obama is primarily using his PACs to funnel money into his own pockets.

          1. I noticed you never mention that there is really anything amiss.

            How do you think Obama is paying 100’s of his political hanger ons? Check the payrolls

            PACs are slush funds used by all politicians. But guess who writes the laws regulating them. Same with charities, foundations, etal.

            as far as funneling into his own pockets, Obama is much like Sharpton. He owns very little, his desires are filled by “donors”.

            1. Not so, as easily checked. The Obamas have a net worth of at least $40 million according to Wikipedia and $70 million from other internet sources.

              1. Barack Obama (D)
                Top Contributors, 2008 Cycle
                https://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638

                University of California $1,799,460
                Goldman Sachs $1,034,615
                Harvard University $900,909
                Microsoft Corp $854,717
                JPMorgan Chase & Co $847,895
                Google Inc $817,855
                Citigroup Inc $755,057
                US Government $638,335
                Time Warner $617,844
                Sidley Austin LLP $606,260
                Stanford University $603,866
                National Amusements Inc $579,098
                Columbia University $570,839
                Skadden, Arps et al $554,439
                WilmerHale Llp $554,373
                US Dept of Justice $540,636
                IBM Corp $534,470
                UBS AG $534,166
                General Electric $532,031
                Morgan Stanley $528,182

                1. None of which addresses their 2022 net worth and where it came from.

                  I agree that “PACs are slush funds used by all politicians” to pay for diverse things, but they aren’t used by all or even most politicians to put money into their own pockets as income.

        2. The Vanishing Legacy of Barack Obama

          – Matt Taibbi

          “Obama was set up to be the greatest of American heroes, but proved to be a common swindler and one of the great political liars of all time — he fooled us all. Moreover, his remarkably vacuous post-presidency is proving true everything Trump said in 2016 about the grasping Washington politicians whose only motives are personal enrichment, and who’d do anything, even attend his wedding, for a buck. Trump’s point was that he, Trump, was already swinishly rich, while politicians have only one thing to sell to get the upper class status they crave: us.

          Obama did that. He sold us out, and it’s time to start talking about the role he played in bringing about the hopeless cynical mess that is modern America.”

    2. Outstanding post, Dennis, but the reason for Turley posting this is, of course, because it is part of Fox’s assignment to priortize attacking Biden while ignoring the big political scandal stories involving Trump. He has already pre-attacked one potential nominee before anyone has even been proposed.

      1. Natacha: You hit the nail on the head! Many of Turley’s posts are an attempt to divert attention from more important news. Turley’s loyal supporters take the bait. That’s why I try to change the subject–like the latest Trump/Melania scam in Florida. Tucker Carlson has taken a page from Trump’s playbook and now has his own scam. As you may know Fox has been promoting the trucker protests in Canada. Carlson is selling shirts ($35 a copy) supporting the truckers with a play on words–“Truckers” and “Tucker”. You know love me love the truckers. Former Fox correspondent, Carl Cameron, said it all: “…they [Fox and Carlson] wanna have more eyeballs which gets them more money,…” Carlson and Trump. Two peas in a pod!

        1. Dennis quoting Carl Cameron:

          “they [Fox and Carlson] wanna have more eyeballs which gets them more money,…”

          To be fair, all talk show hosts want more eyeballs. The main reason this country is polarized is due to the fact that opinion shows and news shows are big business and not a public service as they used to be.

          HOW you profit on your shows matter. Carlson will repeat any nonsense which he thinks will appeal to his viewers. One of the Tell-tale signs demonstrating the difference between Carlson’s show and the prime time shows on MSNBC is the disparity in guests brought on these respective shows. You will find that Carlson hosts many radio talk show hosts as opposed to accredited journalists who work at news organizations which MSNBC almost exclusively presents.

          I’d like to ask Turley what he thinks about this undeniable difference. Whether it proves that Fox engages in *advocacy journalism* more so than Fox’s competitors. After all, talk show hosts are rage provocateurs by nature; journalists, on the other hand, are subject to journalistic ethics.

          Carlson even dabbles in alien UFO nonsense. He brings on UFO quacks who claim that UFO’s could be alien in origin when alien visitation is scientifically impossible. But it sells!

      2. So, what you’re saying is, that you’re one of the 36% of Americans, mostly Democrats, who support racial and gender discrimination of Supreme Court Nominees, and you don’t want anyone talking about it.

        Got it.

    3. “Barack Obama’s $400,000 speaking fees reveal what few want to admit”
      https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/01/barack-obama-speaking-fees-economic-racial-justice

      Instead, it seems like Obama will spend his post-presidency hauling in money as the Clintons have. I don’t believe even under the guise of philanthropy that speaking to banks helps ameliorate economic racism; it certainly doesn’t help the Democrats electorally.

  20. I think this poll shows 76% of Americans, of both or any political affiliation, have the common sense to say Biden limiting his choice based on race and sex is not good policy.

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