SUPERFICE, THY NAME IS GOODWIN :

9th Circuit Judge Unfazed by Storm Over Pledge Ruling : Judge sees critics as 'superficial' (Jason Hoppin, 07-01-2002, The Recorder)

"I never had much confidence in the attention span of elected officials for any kind of deep thinking about important issues," Goodwin said. "When they pop off after what I call a bumper strip headline, they almost always give a superficial response."

He just threw out 200+ years of nearly uniform understanding of what the Constitution allows and he thinks other people have short attention spans? Posted by Orrin Judd at July 2, 2002 10:37 PM