amazon.com - 5/12/2009
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Amazon.com Review Barack Obama's first book, Dreams from My Father , was a compelling and moving memoir focusing on personal issues of race, identity, and community. With his second book The Audacity of Hope , Obama engages themes raised in his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National ...
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Empathy is Not a Code Word for Dirty Gay Terrorist Hippie
Library Grape —
The last few weeks have been muy caliente in terms of Supreme Court dish. To recap, Supreme Court Justice David Souter announced that he's retiring from the Court. President Obama then laid out his criteria for selecting a new Justice, which included the quality of empathy (which should be no surprise, considering that he called for judicial empathy way back in 2007). Obama's re-opening of the empathy gate has driven the GOP into ever-heightening states of abject apoplexy at the ludicrous suggestion that a judge should possess an emotion that allows a person to step into the shoes of another. I know, I know; I shouldn't ...
The Quality of Empathy Is Not Strained
The Moderate Voice —
Dahlia Lithwick on “the GOP’s misguided and confusing campaign against judicial empathy” (emphasis mine):
One is surely entitled to say that President Obama’s repeated claim that he seeks “empathy” in a replacement for Justice David Souter is something less than a crisp constitutional standard. But the Republican war on empathy has started to border on the deranged, and you can’t help but wonder to what purpose.
Webster’s defines empathy as “the experiencing as one’s own the feelings of another.” Obama, in The Audacity of Hope, described empathy as “a call to stand in somebody ...
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Signing On to an Obama 'Dream'
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Obama to push Israelis, Palestinians on peace —
Reuters: Politics 5/12/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will urge Palestinian, Israeli and Egyptian leaders to take the steps necessary to achieve peace in the Middle East when they visit Washington this month, the White House said on Tuesday.
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