Daily Archives: 06/01/2009

(Community Matters)

I know lots of stupid people who went to Ivy League Schools. (Karl Rove)

Evidently he wasn’t referring to his previous employer but alluding to S. Ct. nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

Well . . . the man who predicted building the legacy of a permanent Republican majority went to the University of Utah and University of Maryland, so any Ivy League shortcomings he’s observed obviously aren’t so limited.

(Community Matters) George Lakoff: Empathy, Sotomayor & Democracy

They [Democrats] need to speak regularly about empathy as being the basis of our democracy. They need to point out that empathy leads one to notice real social and systemic causes of our troubles and to notice when and how judicial decisions and legislation can harm the most vulnerable of our countrymen. And finally that empathy is the reason that we have the principles of freedom and fairness – which are necessary components of justice.