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Awesome feedback and thanks. I understood the large blue X on my forehead once I thought about it, but some things just strike me as funny after the dust settles. The doc who did my surgery is well regarded in the field and apparently has a great reputation—some call him the Bruce Dickinson of ocular manipulation—but it occurred to me that for all his book learnin and schoolin the entire process could have been brought to its knees if someone left the cap off the sharpie an hour earlier.

That’s hysterical!!

You're not a nobody, you're our somebody. Keep rolling DR.

I had eye surgery a few years back due to an old injury. It took me a few years to decide to go through with it, and as they were getting ready to put me under, the nurse confirmed which eye the surgery was on, grabbed a magic marker and made an X over it. She told me it can get confusing for the doctor depending on where he was standing. It was not all that reassuring and I started to ask more questions and the lights went out.

My son was stunned to hear that I would choose to forgo a SB win with Kapernick at the helm back when he was sporting the pig socks. I’ll take the election.

What I think is largely irrelevant to the relationship between Obama and Biden when Biden was the second most powerful man in the world. I know who I am voting for and whether or not they hated each other is not my concern. I understand from a dispassionate perspective the question posed, but you’ve now suggested that a guy in office for nearly 5 decades didn’t really have the juice to be impactful enough in his role because he wasn’t president, and now was not essential and/or useful as counsel to President in his role as VP. This approach, should Biden choose to take that path, is a losing strategy.

He spent nearly 20% of his time as the second most powerful human being in the world after spending the other 80% in the rarified air of being in the top 25. If his pitch follows your line of thinking—and I’m not knocking you here—he comes off sounding like a tired old tiger who lost his teeth. Besides, fairness has nothing to do with anything.

Biden was very effective against Ryan in a guy off the street sort of way. His history of plagarism, lies, racial insensitivity and uncomfortable groping/touching/assaulting was of no concern to the citizens who voted for him then, nor was his unprofessional debate style of interrupting and or guffawing like a swamp mule then. He’s been elevated to heir apparent now, so he’ll get away with anything he does now. I’m not at all certain it’s the slam dunk many feel it will be. Trump isn’t Paul Ryan, but I’d be surprised to see Biden babbling for the entire event. Trump’s line of attack should simply be an extension of what he said recently—he’s accomplished more than in 47 months than Biden has in 47 years. He wins on those terms.

If Biden was around to see this, he would be heartbroken.

Step outside and face me while you say this, that’s all I have to say about this. I mean, shorten it a bit, knock back a paragraph or two, maybe eliminate the bullet points and whatnot, it’s getting chilly early this time of year and I haven’t had my flu shot yet. I hope you are wrong, hence my fury.

Tie the act of evil directly to the main inquisitor, Kamala Harris. Juxtapose that with her comments on Biden and believing he’s a violent sexual predator and later on, her giddiness as she laughed off supporting the alleged victim of the violent sexual assault when asked in the dopey tonight show. I think it’s rare to have a candidate you can rightly portray as overtly hostile, hypocritical and apathetic to the plight of survivors of violent assault in one fell swoop.

Now you went and perved it up! I rarely can work clean in my real life so I test drive being classy here.

It’s interesting and I see a parallel between RBG and Bill Clinton. Both extremely intelligent and capable people, both perhaps a bit on the narcissistic side (one more than the other obviously), but in the end, both “undone” by circumstances that were fairly easy to predict and project. One involved exposing his throat to his enemies on one of the worst kept secrets in politics, the other by over managing the curves that life inevitably throws at us all. Simple human failings.

Fitz...have you ever heard of......Pilates?

Your main concern for the Rs is the “bad look” after Russia and Kavanaugh? If that is what it looks like when we’re all looking good together I say pass. There is no precedent from 2016. The situation is similar only in that a seat is available because a justice died. A bad look, imo, is the suggestion that RBG kept her thoughts on a president replacing her private, shared them with a select few as she spent her final hours reflecting on her life. Certainly she would know a sitting president was under no obligation to act as she saw fit, surely she knew the country is in the midst of serious and significant societal unrest, and surely she would know her dying words would be used as a rallying cry for those intent on destruction. She was 87 years old and a very skilled writer coming to the end of a fight that lasted several years...,she could not pen an op ed for the NYT outlining her thoughts? It seems clear to me that RGB was intent on serving as a justice for the duration of her life, knowing all the obligation and rules that applied as she made that decision, and a huge part of that was that upon death, her seat opened up. She chose to remain all throughout the Obama years, she chose to remain as she battled setback upon setback, and there is nothing written or published that suggests she expected anything other than to see her commitment through to the end. We should respect her enough to honor the process. It only looks bad to the oppostion, and the opposition has shown time and again their contempt for who the President is, what his role is, and for 60,000,000 Americans who support him. Time to move on from this bs Sally Field “You really like me!” garbage.

The Italians tend to prefer their women be Rubenesque, if I may be so bold. And if I may generalize.

I believe he is suggesting that ABC has personally waged a war on the poor, thus making her an “a hole”, and that he really wants his type of a hole in her place. We can gloss over the fact that irrespective of the obvious challenges one encounters when speaking about the Catholic Church and it’s hierarchy, the number of good, decent and hard working Catholics throughout history that have dug deep into their own pocket to help those less fortunate is incalculable.

These words strung together mean nothing tangible, and the sentiment I think you are trying to convey flies in direct contrast to the disrespectful rhetoric you used to characterize ABC earlier. Hate is hate, you just advocate hating a different target than someone else.

But based on your comments above, it sounds to me like you just want your own brand of bigot on the court. Same old same old.

She would pray to her God. What would make her a “fanatic” and why the characterization? By all accounts a devoted jurist, decent human being and excellent mother to her children. We would be fortunate to have another strong woman on the SC to help shepherd the country further along during this very contentious period in our history. Ginsberg’s relationship with Judaism certainly impacted who she was as a jurist, and think of how different the country would be if your sort of religious bigotry prevented her from taking her place in history.

Plus we’re almost certain to be within a half-dozen spots of NE in the power rankings tomorrow!

We have plenty to gain, however and we have a sitting President willing to move forward. We have no idea what the future holds for any of the justices, and what the SC might look like post Biden. I really see no issue at all moving forward. Hell it might even cost the Rs the election but you play the hand you’re dealt. Thanks for the reply—I’ll consider that as well.

It’s clear that RBG inspired you, and I think following in her footsteps is admirable. She’s one of the great Americans from an “impact people’s life” perspective. This makes you a good person for my question. Her legacy will be vast and far-reaching. However, I have to question her apparent decision to stay on the bench and attempt to wait the election out. I’ll withdraw this comment if it turns out she was on the mend and died rather suddenly and unexpectedly. Assuming she knew the end was coming for some time, she was an acting SC justice while under tremendous pain and while battling a horrible illness. That typically involves strong medication and long periods of feeling well less than 100%. At the same time, the country is reeling from protests run amok, with citizens clashing in the street, people being murdered and police officers the victims of violent attacks. I can understand liberal frustration that she did not retire from the bench when BO was in office, or sooner. Her end game, as evidenced by her statement about waiting until after the election to nominate her successor, seems to have been to make it until November at a minimum. I think she disregarded what may have been best for the country as it stands today with an eye toward the larger picture of the SC. Certainly she would know the impact of her passing at any point within the past few months, how the very necessary need to replace her would fire up the crazies on both sides. My question(s)...was her decision to hold on purely political, was her statement about waiting on her successor unnecessarily incendiary and finally, why on earth would any president pass up the opportunity to nominate their choice for justice regardless of timing? DJT was elected for a reason, and the SC was a big part of that reason. Thanks—and sorry for the loss of your icon. She lived an honorable life and was tough as nails, you chose wisely though she was not my cup of tea.

Why do you see it this way, Derek?

I recall a fight in the cafeteria in HS. Two guys on the football team squared off, bigger dudes and it amounted to much more of a cartoonish slap fight than anything else. They may have been buddies who got into a spat, can’t recall but I never realized in 1977 I was seeing the future play out before me. Socially distanced fighting IS the future.