Considering that he’s currently running for President he has to remain firm on his ideals—that is what sets him apart from Clinton and that is why many people are supporting him. He’s been in Congress for a long time, I think he understands how things get done. He also stated that he will support Obama’s nomination,…

Any Presidential candidate would likely ask to be able to nominate their own Supreme court justice once they are elected President. And in this situation, Obama nominated a moderate to make the GOP look like idiots. If they don’t elect his nominee the hanging threat is that someone more liberal might be nominated if a…

Are you kidding?

I think that’s exactly what is happening.

Except in this scenario Obama wouldn’t be his boss, he’d be his predecessor. If I were coming into a new job and wanted to change directions I might ask, hey I was thinking about doing this when I start—could you hold off on finalizing that project/contact?

Again. If they were President elect they could and will ask, but Obama doesn’t have to honor that request.

Someone gets it!

This is exactly it. Obama made this choice because any reasonable Republican should be OK with it; the idea is to make the GOP obstruction tactic backfire. Put up a moderate, make the GOP look like fools, when a new Dem president comes in they can nominate a real liberal and say, “well, you guys wouldn’t vote for the…

He definitely has a right to make a request, Obama doesn’t have to honor it. Any president elect would likely do this—especially since Obama nominated Garland to make the obstructionist GOP look like fools.

Which is why Sanders said he would “ask” instead of saying he would “demand”.

Yeah, it’s not exactly divisive. And in the meantime he is stating his strong support for the President and pledging to do whatever it takes to make a Senate hearing happen to elect Obama’s nominee.

The behavior of strongly stating his support for the President and his nomination while politely clarifying that his own hypothetical nomination would hold to the issues that he is currently campaigning on?

Putting a progressive Justice on the Supreme Court IS a long game, what with those lifetime appointments.

I don’t see how this is divisive, he stated very strongly that Obama’s candidate is a strong candidate and he will support him and work to make a senate hearing happen. Then he clarifies that he would make a different choice to reiterate the issues that are central to his campaign—while still restating he will support…

Seriously, this guy is running for President and he has a platform to support. Strongly stating that he supports the president’s nomination, deriding GOP obstructionism, and then clarifying his ideal nomination if he were elected President so that prospective voters will hear again the issues he finds important—I…

You’re so lucky! I work in a basement with no windows these days. It’s also a brutalist style building so all I see is cement and ugly wood.

I’m just a grunt worker, so all I could do was yell, “they’re doing it! The pigeons are doing it!” in my communal office. My coworkers would just side-eye me and go back to work.

I love this story. I miss having a window, I used to watch pigeons mating in the drainage ditch my window looked into. Once there was a kitten wandering around. None of my coworkers were as interested in the display of wildlife outside my drainage ditch window.

Well, I’m SOL

Can we trade southern Indiana for Louisville so I can stay in the union?