pro-conservative obama?!?

On CNN, Obama said he wanted Souter's replacement to be someone who:

"has a sense of what's happening in the real world and recognizes that one of the roles of the courts is to protect people who don't have a voice."

May we assume that he's referring to Senate Republicans?

Maybe not... ;)

"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom," Obama said at a Planned Parenthood conference in 2007. "The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criterion by which I'm going to be selecting my judges."

Noticeably absent from the list are the bitter, the religious, and the gun-clinging. Can anyone say "discrimination"?

The article also included this bit of doublespeak:

"Obama will pick someone who supports a woman's right to choose abortion and Roe v. Wade, but denied that that amounted to a litmus test."

Yeah right. Maybe he's using phenolphthalien?