Once again, despite his ranting on bitter partisan politics...he fillibustered the nomination of Chief Justice Roberts (who is hardly a Clarence Thomas), against not only ALL Republicans but the vast majority of Democrats in the Senate.
once again, I ask for what did Obama do to fillibuster the nomination, other than cast a vote for No on his confirmation?
Chief Justice Roberts, has been compared to Clarence Thomas for his support of legislation having the jurisdiction over such as school prayer, abortion and marriage and will support the legislations decision, versus interfering with a vote as being unconstitutional. So when someone a constitutional challenge against Defenese of Marriage or the Marriage Protection Act, to Federal Court and appeals it to the supreme court, it is likely that Roberts will uphold the legislation's law, because historically he has stated it's not the judge's role to intervene, that's the job of the legislation to make law. Different from a local judge in Gerogia that ruled that a voter-endorsed ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional.
The same thing with local states trying to strip the morning after pill, creating new anti-abortion law. He will uphold state laws against ruling anything as unconstitutional. So I don't think Obama was being difficult or just oppositionally defiant when he casted a vote of no for Justice Roberts.
I've yet to read anywhere that Obama fillibustered Roberts confirmation, whereby fillibustering would mean that he kept inundating him with questions so that they never got to vote on whether they were ready to vote on his confirmation. Obama did not fillibuster, he voted against confirmation. If you are citing his vote against Justice Roberts versus the other 1/2 of the dems that voted to confirm him, as a sign that Obama is more left than he is a centrist, I disagree. Being a centrist isn't always about voting in the middle as much as the solutions being better for the majority for the country. At any rate - I still fail to understand how Obama fillibustered Roberts confirmation or your other position that Obama called Roberts a bigot.
FYI - for the curious - Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 (now that's change you can count on
