| Atticus Grinch |
03-26-2004 04:31 PM |
Pledge
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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
I'm with you and Safire and, I guess, almost everybody else here. The NYT ran a overly-fawning article on the father's performance with the SCT yesterday, noting that the audience broke into applause at one point when he gave a clever retort to Rehnquist. He was good on CNN or whatever the other day too.
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The local legal press has covered Newdow, the Person, in the past, 'cause he's a local. Comes off a bit like Barry Bonds: incredible talent, but ultimately unlikeable because he's an obnoxious, overbearing, arrogant prick. Typical male MD, really. Apparently, he did some shitty things to his ex-wife in the divorce proceeding, and vice versa.
Which bodes well for his case, because all of the famous con law plaintiffs were unattractive as people, except maybe Dred Scott.
My 2 cents is that Newdow is right, but ahead of his time. History will vindicate his position --- it will strike future Americans as funny and a little embarassing that God was ever in the pledge. Maybe it will even strike them as embarassing that we had a pledge. |
