McCain embraces affirmative action

What have they ever run?

Nothing.

Has either ever held a private sector job?

No.

Have either one done anything in their lives but collect a government paycheck?

Of course not.

The only thing these two are capable of doing is taking taxpayers to the cleaners, just like the Castro clone running New Jersey today.

And Palin's sharper than Hillary Clinton.  You'll realize that when she wipes up the floor with Joe Biden.

Biden's Unholy Alliance with Radical Feminism Coming to Light

Senator Joe Biden proudly proclaims that he was regularly and severely beaten by his older sister as a child and as an adolescent. This is the same sister that raised his two sons after his wife and daughter were killed in an auto accident.

Biden has often claimed that the Violence against Women Act is the greatest achievement of his career. He also claims that a woman cannot be a perpetrator of domestic violence, despite the fact that hundreds of studies show that women commit acts of domestic violence as often as, or more often than men. Many studies also show that lesbian women physically attack their intimate partners at least as often as heterosexual men.

As a result of Biden's Violence against Women Act, the federal government pays states to create laws effectively requiring that men be removed from their homes and families without even an allegation of violence, with no legitimate standards of evidence, when a woman makes a claim that she is afraid.

Elaine Epstein, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association (1999), has said "the facts have become irrelevant... restraining orders are granted to virtually all who apply. Regarding divorce cases, she states "allegations of abuse are now used for tactical advantage". According to Epstein, who is also a former president of the Massachusetts Women’s Bar Association, restraining orders are doled out "like candy" and "in virtually all cases, no notice, meaningful hearing, or impartial weighing of evidence is to be had."

State restraining order laws are starting to fall because they're unconstitutional. The federal law behind them, written by Joe Biden, is likely to fall as well, not because it isn’t popular, but because it is clearly unconstitutional.

Supporting Documentation

Here are some of the facts regarding Biden's abuse at the hand of his sister. During senate hearings held on December 11, 1990, Biden testified to the abuse.

www.ifeminists.net

This recent CDC study indicates that women between the ages of 18 and 28 initiate reciprocal violence against their intimate partners about as often as men. It also indicates that women initiate non-reciprocal violence against their intimate partners more than twice as often as men.

pn.psychiatryonline.org

Here is a link to a bibliography of over 200 studies indicating that women are as violent as men in their intimate relationships:

www.csulb.edu

According to the US Department of Justice, women also abuse, neglect and kill their children at significantly higher rates than men. Here’s some of the data on child homicides.

www.acf.hhs.gov

Research clearly indicates that lesbian battery is at least as common as heterosexual battery.

www.musc.edu/vawprevention

lesbianlife.about.com

Cathy Young reports on the Elaine Epstein quote and the broader issue at Salon.com here:

www.salon.com

and provides in depth analysis here:

www.iwf.org

New Jersey's domestic violence statute has recently been found unconstitutional. The New Jersey Attorney General is taking this case to the state's Supreme Court.

The New Jersey Law Journal reports that Judge Richard Russell of Ocean City made the following remarks on tape during a judicial training session regarding the issuance of restraining orders.

(source – scan of print copy: www.fathersandhusbands.org/NJ_Rights_1.pdf)

“If I had one message to give you today, it is that your job is not to weigh the parties’ rights as you might be inclined to do as having been private practitioners. Your job is not to become concerned about all the constitutional rights of the man that you’re violating as you grant a restraining order. Throw him out on the street, give him the clothes on his back and tell him, ‘See ya’ around.’ “

A new municipal judge attending the training session stated “The statute says we should apply just cause in issuing the order.” “You seem to be saying to grant every order.” Russell quickly replied, “Yeah, that’s what I seem to be saying.”

The article is full of comments from Russell and his colleagues that are equally inflammatory.

Perhaps you think Russell should have been disbarred for instructing judges to ignore the constitution. In doing so, he violated his greatest responsibility as a judge in the most blatant way possible. Perhaps you think he should have gone to prison.

Russell now serves on the New Jersey Supreme Court's State Domestic Violence Working Group, the Executive Committee of the State Bar's Family Law Section, and the New Jersey Supreme Court's Family Practice Committee. He currently is the chair of the court's Child Support Subcommittee.

Given a recent ruling declaring New Jersey’s domestic violence statute unconstitutional and given the imminent Supreme Court challenge, the truth regarding the real practices that are being used to separate men from their children and their homes must be heard.

Governor Palin is no less "qualified" to be on the ticket than anyone else running in this year's contest.

Of the four candidates, only Palin has any executive experience as a mayor and governor.

What were Nancy Pelosi's qualifications to serve in the House? She never held any public office except for a failed bid to be chairman of the DNC in 1984!

What was Bill Bradley's qualifications when he ran for the US Senate in 1978? He never held public office and spent a decade playing professional basketball with the NY Knicks!

And since when is Kay Baily Hutchinson the "gold standard" for vice-presidential nominees as if Melli would have had anything good to say about her candidacy!

Melli has no institutional memory and fails to comprehend that picking a VP traditionally is about trying to win an election versus who is best to serve.

Is Melli willing to admit that if Palin is not qualified, that liberal Geraldine Ferraro and her six years in the HOR was the least qualified nominee of any major party ticket?

I sincerely doubt that kind of honesty is in him.

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SJW: Thanks for your comments. I don't believe that what McCain did constitutes affirmative action at all. On the contrary, my point was that his actions are a manifestation of the conservative understanding of what affirmative action is:

"Conservatives denounce the practice as promoting under-qualified or unprepared people ahead of more qualified alternatives just for the purpose of diversity. Yet that is exactly what McCain is doing with his choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate."

When one doesn't understand the purpose of affirmative action, it's no surprise that we get people like Clarence Thomas and Alberto Gonzales in positions of power. While I disagree with their politics and wouldn't support their nominations, I agree that Senators Hutchinson or Dole would have been qualified candidates for the job.

John McCains politically motivated and calculated Sarah Palin split decision scares the BJesus out of me... And everyone that I've talked to or run into feels the same way:  Democrats, Republicans and Independents! His VP choice is so utterly self serving, calculating, maniacal and reckless ...McCain debunks his own "Country First" campaign slogan...It's definitely not a sincere message. Actions speak louder than words!

Nj_politics_2008 I really appreciate your astute observations and remarks.

John McCain said tonight, "We face many threats in this dangerous world but I AM NOT AFRAID of THEM." OMG. And I believe him. Fear is informing and very focusing! A man without a healthy sense of fear is like a man without a sail. Totally lost and headed for disaster...And he wants to take us with him.

McCain has had four bouts with malignant melanoma. His father died at 62 and his grandfather at 71. And Sarah Palin is 44.

"I think anyone, regardless of party affiliation, would take a U.S. Senator, former state legislator and magna cum laude grad at Harvard Law school over someone with a journalism degree at the University of Idaho any day of the week.

Oh I forgot, according to Cindy McCain, Alaska is close to Russia giving her foreign policy experience.

I've been the workforce for 20 years. I don't need anyone to tell me what affirmative action, and more importantly its fruit, is. If affirmation action is not discrimination, then it definitely breeds it. It's not what you know, it's what you look like and who you know that matters in New Jersey. Qualifications for far too many government-subsidized jobs don't mean diddly.