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Entry: Thinking About Obama Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/thinking_about_obama#29526 Post contents: One potential other evil about an 8 year Obama presidency - within that time, it is guaranteed there will be a number of vacancies on the SCOTUS. Stevens is of course pushing 90, Ginsburg is rumored to be considering retirement..not to mention Kennedy and Scalia are over 70. It is scary to imagine 3 or 4 Obama scotus nominations - not that the 'conservatives' are all good, but I would say that they are better in a 60/40 way. The flip side? A McCain nominee I suspect would be a Souter clone. All in all Paul Gottfried, it's a pretty depressing state we're in. You mention that perhaps this is what we need - a horribly leftist presidency that will make the Clinton-hate of the 90s look mild. But you know what? Sadly, I doubt that. We already had two horribly evil leftist presidencies - FDR and LBJ - and we never recovered. The New Deal and the Great Society are still with us. In the aftermath of those, we got moderate Republicans (Eisenhower and Nixon - although Eisenhower at least delivered on a quick end to the Korean mess). Sent at: 2008 12 02