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[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Sands: [QB] Honestly, TSN, I don't get your first sentence. What I think he was trying to say was not necessarily that slavery was bad, but that the Court went too far in its decision. They could have stopped at Scott having/not having standing and letting the political branches tackle the problem of which political value has priority, property rights or human equality. Activism can go both ways, of course. Bush wants judges to exercise a little bit more restraint in taking issues like that. As for abortion, I see what you are getting at now. (That paragraph I wrote really wasn't well written on second sight. It needed another edit.) Perhaps what he was getting at (and I know I'm on a limb on this one; I don't have time to research the legislative history this moment) is that, in order to keep the Supreme Court from knocking down another partial birth abortion ban, Congress tried to do some fact-finding on whether there is ever really needed such an abortion for the life or health of the mother. If I recall correctly, they found that there really weren't any such circumstances that medicine had identified as demanding such a procedure. Therefore, if Kerry was voting against the ban for only that reason, then what Bush was trying to do was move past an excuse like "life and health of the mother" since no real exception was needed. If Kerry knew that, then what he was really doing was just voting no to the ban, which is what Bush was saying. This is why I hate these debates. With only an hour and a half to talk, you can't go from A to B to C to D to E to F. You have to go from A to L to T to Z and hope your surrogates can take on the more wonkish points. But, then again, [URL=http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/760zyien.asp]that's expecting a lot out of any candidate[/URL], and for reasons of sheer human economy, we can't reasonably expect any president to be able to talk on the level of a specialist who can afford years of study on minute, if important, issues. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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