{"id":19056,"date":"2010-05-11T07:38:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T12:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19056"},"modified":"2010-05-11T07:38:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T12:38:05","slug":"kagan-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19056","title":{"rendered":"Kagan talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the President has named his choice for the Supreme Court and SURPRISE! it&#8217;s a liberal who pushes a gay agenda and opposes the military. Who would have thought that would ever happen. In the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703880304575236502953055276.html\">Wall Street Journal,<\/a> Bobby Clark tries to explain away Kagan&#8217;s anti-military policy by blaming it on Harvard policy;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I, along with many faculty and students, publicly stated our opposition to the military&#8217;s policy, which we considered both unwise and unjust, even as we explicitly affirmed our profound gratitude to the military. Virtually all law schools affiliated with large universities did the same.<\/p>\n<p>When Ms. Kagan became dean in July of 2003, she upheld this newer policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, you see it&#8217;s not her fault, as long as you accept the fact that she had no free will and she was forced to adhere to liberal policy. <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2010\/05\/do_we_know_the_right_questions.html?hpid=topnews\">Ezra Klein<\/a> makes the point that Kagan has a &#8220;this record&#8221;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are at least two reasons that it&#8217;s hard to say whether Elena Kagan is a &#8220;good&#8221; or &#8220;bad&#8221; pick for the Supreme Court. First, her thin written record means we don&#8217;t have enough evidence to answer our questions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So we&#8217;re stuck judging her on what she&#8217;s done &#8211; at Harvard, she threw military recruiters under the bus in favor of making the politically correct decision to condemn &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221;, the Clinton Era policy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/may\/11\/pruden-a-stealth-mission-for-elena-kagan\/\">Wesley Pruden<\/a> writes;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mzz Kagan has always tried to keep her opinions hidden or cleverly camouflaged, as if she might one day want to be a stealth candidate for the court. She has been open and passionate only about expanding rights of gays and lesbians at the expense of everyone else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t trust ugly little trolls who put their sexual proclivities ahead of our National Security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the President has named his choice for the Supreme Court and SURPRISE! it&#8217;s a liberal &hellip; <a title=\"Kagan talk\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19056\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kagan talk<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}