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Obama's Supreme Court pick

Chip Bok | 5.22.2009 7:00 AM

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  1. robc   17 years ago

    Wow.

    Chip, check out yesterday's cartoon. See if you can pick up a clue about funny.

  2. Some Chick in Ohio   17 years ago

    Not so much funny as terrifying. Glad I read this in early a.m. and not right before bedtime! Still, if I have nightmares about this, do I have grounds for a lawsuit?

  3. Suki   17 years ago

    AAAAAAAAA!

    Reason, that was mean.

  4. Cab   17 years ago

    I'm not sure you even have to be an attorney to be appointed, but if you are one, it sure would be awkward to appoint an attorney that resigned from the Supreme Court bar.

  5. ed   17 years ago

    B+

  6. CaptainSmartass   17 years ago

    Cab | May 22, 2009, 7:57am | #
    I'm not sure you even have to be an attorney to be appointed, but if you are one, it sure would be awkward to appoint an attorney that resigned was disbarred from the Supreme Court bar.

    FTFY.

  7. Untermensch   17 years ago

    Stop making fun of Hilary's mustache, Chip.

  8. Highbrow Art Critic   17 years ago

    This fails the Marmaduke test

  9. rah62   17 years ago

    Hillary's wearing a blue dress [snicker].

  10. ed   17 years ago

    Marmaduke gets no empathy at all.

  11. Marc   17 years ago

    That one gave me lulz. I think it caught me off guard.

  12. Fascitis Necrotizante   17 years ago

    If Bok colored Obama white he would look like Ralph Nader.

  13. Xeones   17 years ago

    Way to make me actually feel bad for Hillary Clinton, Bok.

  14. SugarFree   17 years ago

    Xeones,

    Wha? I thought his caricature was incredibly kind to her on the subject of looks.

  15. Pro Libertate   17 years ago

    I thought this was a decent one.

    For the record, there's no constitutional requirements for a Supreme Court justice. No age restrictions, no professional credentials, no citizenship issues, no nothing. I'm not even sure you have to be human.

    As far as tradition goes, I believe that every single justice since the beginning has been a lawyer. Which is reasonable enough for this job, I think.

  16. KT   17 years ago

    Don't quit your day job, Chip.

    If this is your day job, what the fuck.

  17. P Brooks   17 years ago

    Ow, my eye!

  18. SugarFree   17 years ago

    I'm not even sure you have to be human.

    This was fixed by the 43rd Admendment passed after the tyrannical reign of Chief Justice Grxno!rgak.

  19. Solanum   17 years ago

    I'm not even sure you have to be human.

    The best nominee available.

  20. Pro Libertate   17 years ago

    Zaius is good, but there is a more apropos candidate: The Lawgiver.

    I wonder if we'll ever see a computer or robot in the job?

  21. SugarFree   17 years ago

    I wonder if we'll ever see a computer or robot in the job?

    When will you racists stop ignoring Thomas' service to SCOTUS?

  22. grimaldius mensch   17 years ago

    there is another

  23. Pro Libertate   17 years ago

    Look, the composition of the Supreme Court is serious business. We shouldn't be wasting our time talking about fictional characters or nonexistent AI being appointed.

    Because there's a real candidate for the job.

  24. P Brooks   17 years ago

    I want Charles Manson on the Court. We're headed in that direction, anyway.

  25. wingnutx   17 years ago

    If Bok colored Obama white he would look like Ralph Nader.

    It's all so clear to me now.

  26. R C Dean   17 years ago

    Well, this one has to be an affirmative action pick - a chick, someone with the Right Color skin, etc.

    But, when one of the old white men kicks off, I see a strong case for Obama to appoint Bill Clinton:

    (1) Empathy - the man practically oozes.
    (2) Paralyzing a political opponent. Don't think for a minute that the Clintons aren't still laying for Obama.

    That pretty much checks off the boxes, doesn't it?

  27. tlauf   17 years ago

    Is this supposed to be funny? I guess I don't even get the political commentary here. What's the point? You don't like the Clintons? BORING!

  28. Pro Libertate   17 years ago

    Appointing someone who had his license suspended and who doesn't exactly light the world up with his legal credentials, anyway, is a bad idea. Not to mention that he was impeached. Whether you agree or not with his impeachment, is that a good precedent?

  29. Lamar   17 years ago

    "Appointing someone who had his license suspended and who doesn't exactly light the world up with his legal credentials, anyway, is a bad idea. Not to mention that he was impeached. Whether you agree or not with his impeachment, is that a good precedent?"

    I have two views on the impeachment of Bill Clinton. (1) It is the stupidest and worst thing the GOP has ever done. (2) It didn't actually happen, because the GOP wouldn't be such a bunch of hyper-political pieces of shit. Bill McCullom!!

    So I don't just disagree with his impeachment, I think Bill Clinton came out looking better. They investigated every last detail, including his penis and ejaculate matter, and all they came up with was lying about who he was banging?

    I think the impeachment was a bad precedent.

  30. P Brooks   17 years ago

    I think the impeachment was a bad precedent.

    It did just what it was supposed to do; that fucking clown show made it impossible to ever bring impeachment proceedings again.

  31. Pro Libertate   17 years ago

    Lamar,

    I'm not arguing the merits of the impeachment, but there are people who still defend Nixon. Better to keep them all off the Supreme Court. Maybe that'd prove unfair to one or two people, but I'd rather do that than see people with tainted histories getting lifetime tenure on the federal bench. It's not like there aren't a million other lawyers to choose from.

  32. Solanum   17 years ago

    Zaius is good, but there is a more apropos candidate: The Lawgiver.

    Meh, the Lawgiver was a bleeding heart who condoned apes & humans living together. Zaius was smart enough to recognize the blight that humans would wreak on ape society, and thus wisely kept those pesky secret scrolls locked away.

  33. Francesco Sinibaldi   17 years ago

    Summer resort.

    You live
    in the youth
    of a summer
    resort, your
    delicate voice
    appears in
    my mind like
    a winged creature,
    and even a
    pleasure describes
    in a moment
    a bright sensibility.

    Francesco Sinibaldi

  34. Fascitis Necrotizante   17 years ago

    Shut the fuck up, Sinibaldi.

  35. Scarpe Nike Italia   14 years ago

    is good

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