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Care you be more specific about which parts you disagree with and why. In detail?
The emoticons are great and all, but perhaps you'd like to expand your thoughts beyond rolly eyes.
I needed a sick bucket after reading this drivel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/op...dowd.html?_r=1
You can’t judge a judge by her cover.
Despite the best efforts of Republicans to root out any sign that Sonia Sotomayor has emotions that color her views on the law, the Bronx Bomber kept a robotic mask in place.
A wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not know that a gaggle of white Republican men afraid of extinction are out to trip her up.
After all, these guys have never needed to speak inspirational words to others like them, as Sotomayor has done. They’ve had codes, handshakes and clubs to do that.
So when Republican Senator Jon Kyl, without so much as a howdy-do, went at Sotomayor, and soon was asking her if she agreed with Barack Obama’s contention, when he voted against John Roberts, that a judge’s heart is important, the would-be justice was as adroit as her idol Nancy Drew.
“No, sir,” she said, indicating that the only bleeding-heart thing about her was the color of her jacket. She added that “it’s not the heart that compels conclusions in cases. It’s the law.”
President Obama wants Sotomayor, naturally, to bring a fresh perspective to the court. It was a disgrace that W. appointed two white men to a court stocked with white men. And Sotomayor made it clear that she provides some y seasoning to a bench when she said in a speech: “I simply do not know exactly what the difference will be in my judging, but I accept there will be some based on gender and my Latina heritage.”
The judge’s full retreat from the notion that a different life experience is valuable was more than necessary and somewhat disappointing. But, as any clever job applicant knows, you must obscure as well as reveal, so she sidestepped the dreaded empathy questions — even though that’s why the president wants her.
“We apply law to facts,” she told Kyl. “We don’t apply feelings to facts.”
She even used a flat tone when talking about the “horrific tragedy” of 9/11, when she was living near the World Trade Center. And she was mechanical in explaining to a grumpy Senator Orrin Hatch that banning nunchaku sticks did not dent the Second Amendment because the martial-arts weapons’ swing “can bust someone’s skull.”
Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer gamely tried to make the judge seem even more coldhearted. Recalling the sad plight of poor families from the Bronx who sued T.W.A. after a jet crashed off Long Island in 1996, he quoted the Bronx jurist’s dispassionate dissent: “The appropriate remedial scheme for deaths occurring off the United States coast is clearly a legislative policy choice, which should not be made by the courts.”
Schumer also cited the case of an African-American woman who filed suit after being denied a home-equity loan, even after the loan application was conditionally approved based on her credit report.
Sonia Legree ruled that the woman’s claim was filed too late, the same argument that the Supremes used on Lilly Ledbetter when she belatedly learned that her male coworkers were much better paid. President Obama has cited the Ledbetter decision as a reason the court needs a more “common touch.”
“The law requires some finality,” Sotomayor explained about her case, with an iciness that must have sent a chill up the conservative leg of Alabama’s Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, even as it left Obama hanging out on an empathy limb.
Republican Lindsey Graham read Sotomayor some anonymous comments made by lawyers about her, complaining that she was “temperamental,” “nasty,” “a bit of a bully.” Then he patronizingly lectured her about how this was the moment for “self-reflection.” Maybe Graham thinks Nino Scalia has those traits covered.
But the barbed adjectives didn’t match the muted performance on display before the Judiciary Committee. Like the president who picked her, Sotomayor has been a model of professorial rationality. Besides, it’s delicious watching Republicans go after Democrats for being too emotional and irrational given the G.O.P. shame spiral.
W. and Cheney made all their bad decisions about Iraq, W.M.D.’s, domestic surveillance, torture, rendition and secret hit squads from the gut, based on false intuitions, fear, paranoia and revenge.
Sarah Palin is the definition of irrational, a volatile and scattered country-music queen without the music. Her Republican fans defend her lack of application and intellect, happy to settle for her emotional electricity.
Senator Graham said Sotomayor would be confirmed unless she had “a meltdown” — a word applied mostly to women and toddlers until Mark Sanford proudly took ownership of it when he was judged about the wisdom of his Latina woman.
And then there’s the Supreme Court, of course, which gave up its claim to rational neutrality when the justices appointed by Republican presidents — including Bush Sr. — ignored what was fair to make a sentimental choice and throw the 2000 election to W.
Faced with that warped case of supreme empathy, no wonder Sotomayor is so eager to follow the law.
Last edited by DarrinS; 07-15-2009 at 12:38 PM.
Care you be more specific about which parts you disagree with and why. In detail?
The emoticons are great and all, but perhaps you'd like to expand your thoughts beyond rolly eyes.
I'll summarise her article for you.
The GOP is a group of cranky, old, racist white men.
Bush lied, people died. Cheney is the antiChrist.
Bush stole the 2000 election.
Sarah Palin is dumb.
That's too much reading.
thats pretty accurate. you're more opened minded than people give you credidt for.
Don't forget, President Bush tried to appoint a Latino, but there was a filibuster.
My God... That is dumb.
Secret handshakes belonging to republicans.. Idiot.. Children of both parties were members of such clubs.
How can anyone tolerate someone who is either so ignorant, or intellectually dishonest?
Welp? No?
I'm glad people are saying and reporting " if a white male said that they would not be nominated" It is true. It is a fact. I'm glad people are calling bull on the minorities for being racist pigs that some of them are. What I don't get is the response the people who support these types of minorities. I'm 38 and I shouldn't pay for what white dudes did to black or mexicans before I was born. We have a black president for crying out loud. Get over yourselves!
So racism and discrimination ended in 1971?
I should put that on Wikipedia so WC can use it later as evidence.
apparently not, the new judge to be is a racist. but overall the civil rights movement worked and every american citizen have equal rights. you should know this jman3000. you should read about rosa parks,martin luther kind,malcom x,charles ever,susan b anthony,john lewis,etc......welcome to 2009.
Man it must be nice being white. I could only dream of living in your fantasy world.
^thats stupid though sommerset, how many hispanic woman have ever been on the supreme court and why?
how many black senators have we had?, how many hispanic senators have we since the civil rights movement "worked"?
people on both sides need to learn to shut their mouths
All you have to do is step up and shed your hatred towards us.
What hatred?
Yup. And what a well thoughtout comeback. "Must be great being white" Lets forget the judge to be said latino women are better then everyone else. When I say that is racist I get "must be great being white".... Pathetic.
What she said was racist. This is one of the top positions in our goverment. It is a job for life. It's a job not to make policy but to judge on the laws of our country. It is a position where color or race does not matter. She should not be the judge. Sad thing is Dems are running the show so it does not matter.
she didnt say that
i dont want to speak for jman but i think he is white
so that just makes him a sellout?
I think that a better test to racisim, if we are looking at elected officials, would be to look at state and local politicians. I live in a small town outside of Kansas City which is probably 98% white. Our current mayor is hispanic and the last one was black. Out of seven city council three are minority women.
thats not noteworthy at all
i guess the town has more than 100 people huh
Yes she did. Sotomayor had said she hoped a "wise Latina" often would reach better conclusions than a white male who lacked the same life experience. Son, that is racist and not how we want the highest court in all the land to believe.
What makes you think jman3000 is white? Shouldn't matter anyways. I'll say he is anything but white because you think he is.
Sellout? What dumb ass conclusion did you come up with to ask that dumb ing question?
It's yet another example the civil rights movement worked! Something you and the jman do not think happened.
you're right jack. i thinks it's time that whites should re-claim their domineering roll.....like god and jesus would have it......americas god and jesus!
go USA go!
Poor oppressed whitey...
i was right, she didnt say that
thats what quotes are for
i judged jman by appearence when i met him, i could be wrong
sorry you cant take someone life experience away
i happen to agree with her
i dont know much about sodomayor other than what ive seen online and tv, she could turn out to be horrible, anti cons ution globalist, stupid facist
when you scoff her for being hispanic and say that her sex and ethnicity shouldnt matter its wrong
its like the people who were ing last year saying blacks are voting for obama just because hes black, they hear that as "dont vote for obama because hes black"
Another gay ass response to nothing I said but that is the idiots in the world today. That is what is wrong with most Obama democrats. A white dude calls a minority a racist and they get this bs. Just for the record , I don't believe in Jesus Christ or any cult God. And I am not a republican, my mom is canadian,my brother is mexican and so are my 4 of my cousins, my dad is married to a mexican and I have black friends. Oh My Goodness!!! This can't be true! Sommerset is WHITE!
I grew up in New York, My wife is from Arkansas and I can't stand gots such as yourself. Now run and do ur gayass sarcastic cheer about how whites think and go yourself.....
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