Ok here we go with Obama's pick....Judge Sotomayor.My take....who cares. It's gonna happen no matter what the reps think or say. I say the woman needs to drop the reverse racism attitude.... and needs to learn exactly what the role of a judge is....
And perhaps if she can get that shit straight.... she's probably no worse than anyone else Obama would pick. So I'm saying ruff her up about her racist views during the Senate hearings, set her straight about the role of a judge .....and she should be good to go.
Oh and a makeover....would be a definite plus. Oh wait... she's a liberal... they take pride in being dog ugly!
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Diana: COMPLETE BULLSHIT! Every piece of crap word in your statement as also reflected in the lying, disgusting, erroneous, willfully ignorant comments of almost every right wing leader- The list of names they are leveling at the Judge- nominee is endless. Just like the lies they told about Obama- the reaction by decent folks everywhere is that of disgust to these baseless attacks. Americans are going to rightfully punish this colossal GOP act of un-American racism-sexism, and overall gall. Your party stinks so much that the decent people you had, are peeling off in droves. Keep up your hatchet jobs- it's working for us!(Dems)
and to think i was being nice... i didn't even say anything she didn't say...sep get some sex...
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Someone pinch me. I must be dreaming. Some of the same Republicans who have wielded the hot blade of racial divisiveness for years, are now calling Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court nominee, a racist. Oh, the hypocrisy!
The same Newt Gingrich who once said that bilingual education was like teaching “the language of living in a ghetto” tweeted that Sotomayor is a “Latina woman racist.” The same Rush Limbaugh who once told a black caller to “take that bone out of your nose and call me back” called Sotomayor a “reverse racist.” The same Tom Tancredo, a former congressman, who once called Miami, which has a mostly Hispanic population, “a third world country” said that Sotomayor “appears to be a racist.”
This is rich.
Even Michael Steele, the bungling chairman of The Willie Horton Party knows that the Republicans have no standing on this issue. In an interview published in GQ magazine in March, he was asked: “Why do you think so few nonwhite Americans support the Republican Party right now?” His response: “Cause we have offered them nothing! And the impression we’ve created is that we don’t give a damn about them or we just outright don’t like them.” Ding, ding, ding, ding.
Ironically, one of the candidates who was defeated by Steele for the chairmanship sent out Christmas CDs that included a song entitled “Barack the Magic Negro.” Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.
Politically, this “racist” strategy could prove disastrous. Hispanics are the largest and the fastest-growing minority group in the country. And, in recent years, they have increasingly been the victims of racial discrimination. It will be hard to paint the victims, as personified by Sotomayor, as the offenders.
A report entitled “Under Siege: Life for Low-Income Latinos in the South” that was released last month by the Southern Poverty Law Center found “systemic discrimination against Latinos” that constituted “a civil rights crisis.”
The report noted: “And as a result of relentless vilification in the media, Latinos are targeted for harassment by racist extremist groups, some of which are directly descended from the old guardians of white supremacy.
Politics aside, what exactly did Sotomayor say that got everyone in a huff? In a 2001 speech she said, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” She acknowledged a racial bias. That doesn’t make her a racist.
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I have yet to read or hear of Sotomayor’s acts of racial discrimination. (She is nearly 55 years old. Surely if she is a racist, and a judge to boot, there has to be some proof of it in her actions, no?)
Now let’s look at a couple of the men who have ascended to the bench.
First, there’s former Chief Justice William Rehnquist. When the Supreme Court was considering Brown v. Board of Education, Rehnquist was a law clerk for Justice Robert Jackson. Rehnquist wrote Jackson a memo in which he defended separate-but-equal policies, saying, “I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by my ‘liberal’ colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be reaffirmed.”
Furthermore, Rehnquist had been a Republican ballot protectionist in Phoenix when he was younger. As the Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen correctly noted in 1986: Rehnquist “helped challenge the voting qualifications of Arizona blacks and Hispanics. He was entitled to do so. But even if he did not personally harass potential voters, as witnesses allege, he clearly was a brass-knuckle partisan, someone who would deny the ballot to fellow citizens for trivial political reasons — and who made his selection on the basis of race or ethnicity.”
Then there’s John Roberts, who replaced Rehnquist as the chief justice in 2005. That year, Newsday reported that Roberts had made racist and sexist jokes in memos that he wrote while working in the Reagan White House. And, The New York Review of Books published a scolding article in 2005 making the case that during the same period that he was making those jokes, Roberts marshaled a crusader’s zeal in his efforts to roll back the civil rights gains of the 1960s and ’70s — everything from voting rights to women’s rights. The article began, “The most intriguing question about John Roberts is what led him as a young person whose success in life was virtually assured by family wealth and academic achievement to enlist in a political campaign designed to deny opportunities for success to those who lack his advantages.”
Gingrich tweeted that “a white man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw.” Make up your own minds about where Rehnquist’s and Roberts’s words and actions should fall on the racism spectrum, but both were overwhelmingly confirmed.
Until someone can produce proof of words and actions on the part of Sotomayor that even approach the scale of Rehnquist’s and Roberts’s, all I see is men throwing skeleton bones from class closets.
By CHARLES M. BLOW
Published: May 29, 2009, NY Times.
DIANA- I know you do not bother to read factual commentary- especially when it exceeds your capacity of one-liners, so the above was entered for the benefit of your GHOST readers- you know, the ones whom you ostensibly write for- but who exist only in that other dimension of time and space know as THE TWILIGHT ZONE... >can you hear the music>?
sep let me repeat for the 15th time, i don't read ANYTHING you post here.
2nd let me once again say....I'm not against Sotomayer....I mean she's not worse than any other nomination that would come from Obama. Stay tuned for my next entry on the REAL 1st hispanic nominee to the Supreme Court.
Your idiot status is unprecesented.
You Repubican idiots take a half sentence out of an entire speech and try to build your phony swift-boating case out of whole-cloth. The rest of society understands clearly what SotoMayor was saying- There is no reverse discriminiation or any other kind of discrimination except to say they you incompetetent lying fools can't discriminate fact from fiction.
How absolutely Shallow and simple- minded of you to be casting aspersions based on Appearance.."Dog ugly"? Hell, what makes you think you're such a box of chocolates?
sep...go get a bj...it should help with your disposition. JFC I wonder how you would respond if I came out AGAINST Sotomayer.
Idiot...once again....Idiot
Diana- Already, All those loud mouthed GOP weenies are backing down from their hysterical comments- realizing in fact that their smear machine got out ahead of the facts...but that's how you republicans operate- politics of personal destruction and the facts be damned. It's funny to see them all back-peddling and will be equally amusing to see her talk circles around these dopey GOP idiots during the hearings.
"sep...go get a bj"
Is that an offer?
sep...dream on idiot
well, do you find that to be good therapy for yourself since you seem to suggest it an awful lot?
A date with:
Diana ( ) Judge Sotomayor (X)
Sep... you want me bad.
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