Obama surrenders again before the battle starts

OK, I can understand picking a judge from Indiana, since you were the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state since 1964, for the Seventh Circuit Court bench in Chicago. Because he’s from Indiana, I can understand that David Hamilton will lean more moderate.

But, you’re either surrendering before the battle has started, or else this is a(nother) sign of the true, moderate not progressive, Barack Obama:

A senior administration official said Judge Hamilton would have the support of both Mr. Bayh, a Democrat, and the state’s other senator, Richard G. Lugar, a Republican. He will be nominated for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, based in Chicago.

The administration official said part of the reason for making the Hamilton nomination the administration’s first public entry into the often contentious field of judicial selection was to serve “as a kind of signal” about the kind of nominees Mr. Obama will select…

The administration official said the White House was hoping to reduce the partisan contentiousness of judicial confirmation battles of recent years.

“We would like to put the history of the confirmation wars behind us,” the official said.

Ridiculous. Even the Slickster didn’t announce that in 1993, or after the midterm elections in 1994.

That may have been the type of judges he selected. See Ginsberg and, even more, Breyer, at SCOTUS.

BUT… he didn’t announce that in advance.

Kumbaya will get its hat handed to it again, perhaps? Obama again not showing real change or a new way of governing.