"Empathy"; there’s a word we never heard from George W, Bush.

It wasn’t in my own vocabulary unti as a sophomore I took an undergraduate course in Humanistic Psychology at Michigan State from Marion Kinget, who had been mentored by Carl Rogers. 

Rogers was the first major psychologist who refined the definition of empathy as having a deep sense of what the other person’s feelings and life experience. It was the bedrock of his approach to what he called client centered therapy.

My sense of the conservatives on the court is that they lack this characteristic.

However, I don’t think Obama will consider her because she’s  (about) 77 years old. I doubt he’ll nominate someone older than 60, probably younger.

Conservatism is a fear based philosophy, who’s solution is authority, structure, limits. Anyone who does not share the need to be fenced in, threatens to puncture their protective membrane. A membrane kept intact with greed, fear, and loathing. When John McCain or any of the conservatives, look out at their constituencies, it’s a crowd of stupid uneducated uninquisitive and angry people.The Republican Convention was the most appalling gathering of ugly Americans I’ve ever seen.

When Barack Obama looks out at his crowds, he sees people capable of empathy, people capable of responding to reality.