Judge Not: Obama's Supreme Court Appointees would Not Upset the Balance of the Bench (Law) (Barack Obama‪)‬

LET US STIPULATE that Barack Obama is a man of the Left. He has learned to dulcify his liberalism with grandiloquent equivocations about "moving beyond our divisions" and "change we can believe in." But Obama's speeches are like Donne's "gold to airy thinness beat"--without the mettle. He remains, at his core, the quintessential Hyde Park Man, a synthesis of Ivy League snobbery and machine politics. Not without reason did National Journal adjudge him last year's most liberal member of the Senate. That predisposition is particularly evident when it comes to the issue of judges. Perhaps because of his tenure as a lecturer in constitutional law or because he dedicated a chapter in his presidential primer, The Audacity of Hope, to "Our Constitution," the one topic on which Obama has made no attempt to uphold his "post-partisan" facade has been the Supreme Court. On other issues, Obama may come before the American people clad in sheep's clothing. But when it comes to the court, to echo Justice Antonin Scalia, "this wolf comes as a wolf."