Dems Blow Supreme Court Opportunity in Debate  At the end of an
often tedious debate filled with canned responses tweaked,
parsed and refined from the previous tedious debates, the
Democratic candidates for President were asked how they would
choose a Supreme Court Justice. The question came from an
undecided Nevada Democrat, and CNN's Suzanne Malveaux added her
own addendum, "would you insist nominees support abortion
rights?"  Each candidate affirmed in some way they would pick
justices that would be fair, understand the experience of the
everyday American, protect the marginalized and support the
right to privacy enshrined in the United States Constitution.
At that point, right before the all important "diamonds or
pearls" question, I threw a pillow at the TV screaming, "WHEN
ARE YOU ROBOTS GOING TO WAKE UP?"  I'm thrilled that each
candidate can offer a canned response reassuring voters what
they already know, but I'm wondering when the candidates might
move beyond the stump speech and help Americans und