Up until now, I have never had a reason not to like Whoopi Goldberg, probably because I do not watch the View (but after all, who didn’t like Sister Act?). But after seeing this clip from the View, I cannot but be amazed at the stupidity of some people in this world. Ms. Goldberg’s question about whether she should be worried about being made a slave is ridiculous.Usually I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, but I cannot do that here. There is simply too much ignorance for one person to deal with.
In the context of the discussion, the conversation was about Roe Vs. Wade. Senator McCain said that he disagreed with the decision, not mainly because it deals with abortion (although that is an important reason), but because the Supreme Court violated its boundaries of power and made a decision that became a law. This issue of legislating from the bench, is outside the Constitutional boundaries given to the courts. Senator McCain was saying that if an abortion law was needed, it needed to come through the proper channels. Those proper channels are as follows: the people express their concerns to their Representatives, the Congress makes a bill and passes it, then the President signs it into law. This is how a law is made: from the people, not from 4 or 5 judges who think they know what is best for the country. Senator McCain then said that if it was overturned, the decision would be left up to the individual states (an opinion in line with Amendment 10 of the Constitution). Good job Senator, for standing up for what the Constitution actually says.
In this context, Senator McCain says that he would appoint judges that have this strict view of the Constitution and would interpret the law, as it was intended by the authors. Somehow, Ms. Goldberg took that to mean that Senator McCain wanted to bring slavery back. If Ms. Goldberg actually read the Constitution, she would know that the 13th Amendment clearly states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
The irony in this is that only a strict Constitutionalist would interpret that as freedom from slavery.
But Senator McCain is not free from criticism here. At the end of this, he says “I understand that, and get that. Thank you.” But Senator, it does not make sense, and no one else seems to get it and you should have said so. You should have told her why that statement was wrong. Come on Senator, where is that Maverick spirit everyone hears so much about?
-J. Heffley
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That was the root of my problem voting for McCain, he would rather appease someone confronting him and “reach across the isle” to come to a consensus.
Too many times we’ve seen him do this.
Its not unusual to me to see him appease Ms.Goldberg, who took advantage of this moment of stressful, yet polite, bickering to paint a picture in the minds of the like-minded viewers that was untrue and deceitful, and then followed it by cracking jokes to distract anyone from listening to anything he had to say.
Oh well, as you correctly noted, he had nothing to say.
Great job, by the way.
In a response to a previous comment:
John McCain was in a very hostile crowd. I watched Ellen a couple of months ago when he was on, this right on the heels of Ellen’s planned marriage to Portia de Rossi. They did talk about gay marriage, but of course, Senator McCain did not go on the attack, giving Ellen five reasons why gay marriage is wrong; what would he have accomplished? Ellen DeGeneres, like Whoppi Goldberg and Barbara Walters, would have just continued to bombard the Senator with something (that would be in italics if I could). While I would have certainly wished Senator McCain had explained his view – the RIGHT view – and carried on a lively debate with Barbara Walters and Whoppi Goldberg, it is plain to see that nothing would have been accomplished.
To comment on Goldberg’s slavery comment:
This comment was so woefully uneducated and uninformed.
Debating with them would have showed people that McCain isn;t afraid of a debate. By avoiding it, he put in the minds of people that he isn’t interested in furthering his goals by debate, he’d rather just talk. Had he challenged DeGeneres, he would have showed his watchers that he means business. Now, his enemies think that he avoids debate.