<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5">On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 3:48 PM Dan TheBookMan <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> <i></i></span><i>Regarding Kavanaugh, though, presuming Ford’s allegations were true,</i></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">I thought Ford's testimony was far more credible than Kavanaugh's but I don't think his guilt was proven beyond a reasonable doubt, so if this were a criminal trial and I was on the jury I'd vote not guilty, but if was a civil trial that requires only a preponderance of the evidence I'd vote guilty. And this is not a trial of any sort and the standard is even lower, nobody is trying to take away Kavanaugh's life or liberty or even his money, this is a job interview for a lifetime appointment to one of the most powerful positions in the country, and I think it is appreciate to reject a person from receiving such a promotion unless they can prove beyond a reasonable doubt they are fit for the job. And Kavanaugh has certainly not done that.</font><br><div><span class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.5"><br></span></font></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="line-height:1.5"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span> <i>I don’t think in the early 1980s it was socially acceptable for a 17 year old boy to pin a 15 year old girl down, grope her, grind against her, and try to keep her silent while doing it.</i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I could not agree more! And in the early 1980s it was expected that a judge should have a judicial temperament and at at least a pretense of being even handed and nonpartisan, but </span><span class="gmail_default" style="line-height:1.5;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">we saw none of that on Thursday, what we saw was rage, tears, self pity, and a lunatic </span><span style="line-height:1.5">conspiracy</span><span class="gmail_default" style="line-height:1.5;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> theory about Bill and Hillary Clinton, the Democrats and Dr. Ford </span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.5">concoct</span></font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5">ed</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.5"> the entire <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">thing in a </span></span></font><span class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.5"></span>sinister plot </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5">as revenge <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">for </span>losing the 2016 election<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">. But that is pretty much the sort of person I'd expect Donald Trump to pick to sit on the highest court in the land.</span></span></font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.5">By the way, after Thursday I have no </span>difficulty<span style="line-height:1.5"> </span>believing<span style="line-height:1.5"> </span></font></span><span style="line-height:1.5">Kavanaugh<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> is a mean drunk.</span></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:1.5"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:1.5"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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