Testifying at Attorney General-designee John Ashcroft's confirmation hearing, Ronnie White expressed anger Thursday that Ashcroft had blocked him from becoming a federal judge by persuading the Senate that he had a history of overturning death sentences.
That evil son of a squeak, Aschroft!
White said that as a judge, he had voted to uphold the death penalty in 41 of 59 death penalty cases he heard. He said that in 53 of those 59 cases, he voted with the majority of his colleagues on the court, and was the lone dissenter only three times.
``My record as a judge shows the personal attacks made on me were not true,'' White said.
And he is an idiot at that - how could he argue against such convincing record? Two thirds of death penalty verdicts upheld, only three out of fifty nine opposed as a dissenter!
But wait... He did persuade the Senate! Are they all idiots in there? May well be! But each senator has a stuff of smart flunkies who actually do the research for them, write speaches, etc. How could have they overlooked it? Couldn't they count?
On the third day of hearings that seem likely to lead to Ashcroft's approval, White described his upbringing in a segregated St. Louis neighborhood, the child of poor, teen-age parents. He said he encountered white children who ``would throw milk and food at us and tell us to go back to where we came from.''
What does that have to do with anything? Ashcroft may be a racist but there should be some more evidence then him disproving a candidate who happened to be black.
Do you feel like what is really going on in politics is very different from what we are told by the media?
Even this forum is full of ignorants who think that a president makes laws or controls the economy or education. Not surprising after hearing our mainstream media.
miko
[This message has been edited by miko2d (edited 01-18-2001).]
