‘A Weak Weekly Look at the Week’ – America

Apologies, as last week’s post was so weak it lacked the strength to even haul itself up onto a webpage.  But it’s back!  A Weak Weekly Look at the Weak – but this week, we’re scrappin’ the history and just goin for some downright political and (hopefully) previously unseen stories in the faint hope of stimulating some debate on the comment board.  Have at it – it’s America. 

Supreme Court Nominee

As the committee confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor wind down, several previously-undecided Senators have announced their positions. While Democrats solidly support Sotomayor — ensuring she will easily be confirmed by the full Senate — it looks like there is even a possibility that roughly half of the GOP Senators will also vote in support of the nomination. US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced he will vote against Sotomayor’s nomination. This will be the first time McConnell has ever voted against a nominee for the highest court. Senators Jim Bunning (R-KY), Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Bob Bennett (R-UT) each announced that they will also vote against Sotomayor. By contrast, Senators Richard Lugar (R-IN) and Mel Martinez (R-FL) announced they will support the nomination.  Sotomayor: a sop to the PC, liberal, label-loving left or the real deal?  Have your say.  But either way, it looks like she will make it to the bench. 

The N Word…

Outspoken civil rights activist (and shameful Michael Jackson apologist) Al Sharpton – a supporter of Hillary Clinton’s appointed replacement US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D) – lashed out her 2010 primary opponent recently.  Sharpton blasted Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D) for using the “N-word” whilst quoting someone else. “The quote by Congresswoman Maloney, if accurate, is alarming and disturbing at best,” he said. “No public official, even in quoting someone else, should loosely use such an offensive term and should certainly challenge someone using the term to him or her,” Sharpton wrote in a statement. The Congresswoman said she was quoting a conversation someone had with her earlier. “I apologise for having repeated a word I find disgusting. It’s no excuse but I was so caught up in relaying the story exactly as it was told to me that, in doing so, I repeated a word that should never be repeated,” said Maloney said in an apology statement.  The NAACP delighted.  Chris Rock was apparently fearing for his job.

Presidential Election 2008 Recap

Failed Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards – who was in the running for a place as Obama’s Attorney General nominee until word of his affair with a staffer emerged over the summer – may now be but a footnote, but his campaign is posthumously shedding some light on the dark underbelly of electoral politics.  ABC’s George Stephanopoulos has reported that several top campaign workers for the former Senator’s 2008 campaign got together in late December of 2007, as soon as they believed that the rumours of Edwards having an extramarital affair was accurate, and devised a plan to sabotage Edwards chances of winning the nomination if it looked like he would ever get close.  Designed as a nuclear option to save the Democratic Party’s chances of winning the White House in ’08, the nonetheless campaign went on soliciting money and votes for many months after.  All from a campaign that spoke of the need to put an end to their being ‘two Americas’. 

And finally…

Gubernatorial Republican candidate in Maine, Les Otten, has blatantly ripped off the Obama campaign left, right and centre (no political pun intended.  Check out his logo and website, which are both a total rip…