GOP Sen. Bond: Obama Wants Judges Who Empathize With "The Gay"

CBS News:

Taking the stage as one of the pre-program speakers at a Sarah Palin rally here in Rush Limbaugh's hometown, Sen. Kit Bond, R-Missouri, fired up the crowd by warning them about Barack Obama's judicial philosophy.

"Just this past week, we saw what Barack Obama said about judges," Bond said. "He said, 'I'm tired of these judges who want to follow what the Founding Fathers said and the Constitution. I want judges who have a heart, have an empathy for the teenage mom, the minority, the gay, the disabled. We want them to show empathy. We want them to show compassion.'"

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Comments

[glesslib]

07:24 PM on 11/01/2008

Christopher "Kit" Bond will be so sorry that he said this when he sobers up.

[glesslib]

07:58 AM on 11/01/2008

Folk, we here in Missouri have put up with this al ko hol ic for so long. He comes from a very rich mid-Missour-ah family and tried to do some sneaky things with his blind trust years back. They love him in farm country, though, because he keeps those funds coming. Very bitter, Bush Republican, though.

Too bad his bullying and gravy train existence will soon come to an end. He'll probably retire to his front porch with his friend, Jack Daniels.

[lobear00]

10:57 AM on 10/31/2008

Most all republicans in both the house and senate are "Guilty " 0f crimes against the Constitution, as is some on the Democratic side as well. Its just a matter of time when this "Country " installs a "Real" Attorney General, to go after the "Scum " in the congress. Only then will "We" be able to clean and sanitize the "People's House.

[BushBites]

10:53 AM on 10/31/2008

Better than "The Redneck."

[grizhead63]

10:32 AM on 10/31/2008

Shades of HeinrichHimmler's "TheJew."

[Tropiholic]

09:55 AM on 10/31/2008

miss kitty bonds < ga*y strip*per

[llylabrat]

09:46 AM on 10/31/2008

i'm not defending this guy, but "the poor" "the rich" "the homeless"...many one-word descriptors are used all the time and no one jumps all over it.

[wadda]

09:39 AM on 10/31/2008

Why do the self-hating gays always get the press?

[jgrh]

09:30 AM on 10/31/2008

The gay? You mean there's only one? Then what the heck are we so worried about? Sheesh. the ignorant bigots? There's a lot of those.

[Tropiholic]

09:08 AM on 10/31/2008

kitty bond, you are going to be dragged out of your closet by a bunch of hot trannys!

[WolfLady]

08:46 AM on 10/31/2008

As one of "the Gay", I find it amusing to be slammed by one of the Cretinous.

~WolfLady~

[Tommygun2146]

08:36 AM on 10/31/2008

I don't know about "firing up" the crowd. I saw the video and at the point where Bond started speaking with such disdain about judges having empathy for "the teen-aged mother" and "the gay", along with a host of other minorities, the people got pretty quiet and in the background a lot of eyes could be seen shifting sideways as if people were looking to each other to ask, "did he just say we don't want judges to have any compassion?". I mean, some of these people attending these rallies may be virulent racists and homophobes, but I am guessing more than a few of those people have been hauled before a judge for one reason or another. It is only the wealthy who can afford to buy their way out of trouble, like Mr. Bond, who can afford to call for judges who don't show compassion. Everyone subject to the legal system, regardless of political stripe, wants a judge who can show empathy, at least for them.

[Curt]

08:36 AM on 10/31/2008

YES!!! Finally we are recognized for what we are......... a collective!
Resistance is futile!!! ;)

[roshni]

08:07 AM on 10/31/2008

What is "the gay?"

[kid5rivers2]

07:59 AM on 10/31/2008

what a bum comment (pun intended)! Gays vote, dum my!