Posted by
Always To The Right on Friday, October 31, 2008 6:46:23 PM
NBC
Nightly News last night, Brian Williams asked Obama, "It's said on both
sides of the issue, if it's true, you're not going to call a future
justice into the Oval Office, bring up the subject of abortion. How do
you also avoid surprises? How are you going to determine who to put on
the court?"
OBAMA: Well, look, I think that you -- what you
can ask a judge is about their judicial philosophy. And so my
criteria, for example, would be, uh, if a justice tells me that they
only believe in the strict letter of the Constitution, uh, that means
that they probably don't believe in, uh, a right to privacy that may
not be perfectly enumerated in the Constitution but, you know, that I
think is there.
"Obama said he won't nominate Supreme Court justices
who follow the 'strict letter of the Constitution.' Of course! He wants
to overthrow the Constitution. He wants the courts to redistribute
wealth and break down the capitalist system."