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Posted By Desdamona 5 months, 4 weeks ago in NewsObama's first Supreme Court pick goes to a Hispanic Woman. She is a moderate by any definition of word. Did Obama select based on demographics over idealogy?
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Spadecaller5 months, 4 weeks ago
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It's no secret that whoever Obama nominated, would become a point of contention for the GOP to use as an opportunity to politicize and promote their failing agenda and party. No surprise here.
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Even Orin Hatch, touted to be one of the most fair-minded Republicans, now claims that despite his previous support of Judge Sotomayor's confirmation for the Federal Appeals Court, he may have to review that decision in light of some absurd offhanded comment about how the courts legislate.
One has to be a moron to think that all Supreme Court Judges are not aware of their role and that a consequence of their decisions may sometimes affect legislation. Of course, that doesn't mean that any Justice including Stotomayor would approach their job as an opportunity to legislate. So the GOP is already trying to paint a new picture of the moderate Sotomayor, simply because she has been nominated by President Obama and not by former President Bush.
Again, these kinds of tactics will backfire and bite the GOP in the ass.
If the GOP would like to politicize this nomination and to tie it up without due cause, I think Obama should announce an alternative nomination - a candidate who is much more liberal. Let the wing nuts take the blame for confirming a more liberal justice - that would do more to shut up a opposition party that has little to do with OUR time other than throw stones. -
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Endoscopy5 months, 4 weeks ago
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Who was it that changed that Republican idea. Oh that is right. The Democrats. They are proud of "Borking" people. Kennedy after ranting at a prospect for being a judge calling him all kinds of names later told the person that it was not personal. How does challenging someones morals not become personal?
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Desdamona5 months, 4 weeks ago
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Maybe I am just used to Bush selecting jusges based on extreme judicial views and how long they can stay in office... I love the idea of a more diverse court. I just hope she is not so moderate that the republican like her...
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On the other hand if the republican object too much to a moderate they could further cement their name as the party of NO... -
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dunkirk5 months, 4 weeks ago
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I think shes a good choice. Now the chore is to see if the Republicans really believe the President should get his judicial appts. We've had Bush appt politico's to the court its refreshing to get someone nominated that believes in the Constitution,
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Desdamona5 months, 4 weeks ago
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It will be interesting indeed - seems like they are tipping their hand already and calling her a judicial activist and claiming that SCOTUS is a liberal court... Makes me wonder what alternate reality they are living in... Do they know the Courts current make up? Do they know this nominee's judicial record? The answer to both seems to be a lound and proud we don't need to know reality to complain about fiction...
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Georgia505 months, 4 weeks ago
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She'll sail through. The only reason you Obamatons like her is because no one told you her background includes ADA work (ie, tough on crime...er...Democrats) and that she was elevated to the federal level by Bush 41. Sotomayor also upheld Bush 43's Mexico City Policy limiting use of certain foreign aid funds abroad for abortion. (Note to illiterate liberals: Hispanics as a demographic are overwhelmingly opposed to your infanticide policies and hatred for the unborn under the "choice" lie.)
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TimALoftis5 months, 4 weeks ago
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(Note to illiterate liberals: Hispanics as a demographic are overwhelmingly opposed to your infanticide policies and hatred for the unborn under the "choice" lie.)
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I think Hispanics (heavily Catholic) showed us in the last election that the abortion issue is not necessarily the determining factor in deciding elections as Obama carried 69% of the Hispanic vote.
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Tangent0015 months, 4 weeks ago
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"Hispanics as a demographic are overwhelmingly opposed to your infanticide policies and hatred for the unborn under the "choice" lie."
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I guess that's the real difference here. I see Sotomayor as a person, not a 'demographic'.
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sinophil495 months, 4 weeks ago
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1. If you have a problem with Ms. Sotomayor's ascension thru the judicial ranks, blame GWH Bush.
2. Her voting against limiting abortion funds shows she is independent minded.
3. That ruling should be a positive point for the conservative side. So what are you bitching about?
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Hobe5 months, 4 weeks ago
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Obama picks Sotomayor for Supreme Court! »
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How sad, is this the really best choice for America????
What a disgrace, good politics for Obamer, but for the United States,This is a major disgrace....
LATINO should Not be the national Language, how Sad the Kool-Aid drinkers fall in Line like trained Monkeys????
Ray... Again You show your Ignorance regarding National Interest??
No surprise here, the shallow mind can only Follow...
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vor5 months, 4 weeks ago
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"LATINO should Not be the national Language, how Sad the Kool-Aid drinkers fall in Line like trained Monkeys????"
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That statement doesn't fly no matter what angle you view it from. The Left are Kool-Aid drinkers? Huh? If you haven't learned anything from the first few months of Obama is that the Left hardly thinks in lockstep. And just amazing that conservatives b-tch while Obama seizes the middle. You only drive yourself further away from the center.
Was it not entirely predictable that you would bitch no matter who he picked? Were we happy with Roberts? H-ll no! Did we just have to sit there and watch him be approved? Absolutely! You will end up doing the same. Enjoy the process. But this was a good choice. This is going to put the GOP squarely against Hispanics (forget her views on choice) if they dare say anything. It will further show the inability to cope with what the future holds. They will refuse to accept someone of a different race and culture because they hold differing views. And if history is needed, trying to gauge a Justice's views once they arrive at the high court is a very tricky business. Obama would hardly be the first to misjudge. But let the circus begin! Let the declarations of the end of the Republic start! The very fabric of this nation will be torn asunder! Oh, the horror!
I am a white male but I cannot be so ignorant as to say that if I lived another 50 years I would be a minority in this country. That is an almost certain inevitability. To refuse to cope with that FACT is simply pathetic. This is simple evolution of the melting pot. But you probably don't believe in evolution either! -
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Spadecaller5 months, 4 weeks ago
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Hobe
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"LATINO should Not be the national Language, how Sad the Kool-Aid drinkers fall in Line like trained Monkeys????"
It is quite obvious that your bigotry makes it impossible for you to engage in meaningful discourse. What does language preference have to do with Sotomayor? Your assumptions have definitely made you look like a real ass. -
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Georgia505 months, 4 weeks ago
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"But at 54, she is a generation younger that Souter, and liberal outside groups hope she will provide a counterpoint to some of the sharply worded conservative rulings."
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Ah...nothing warms the heart like an MSNBC article with an incorrect spelling. Remember the good ol' days when liberal bigots would attack a Vice President for the crime of holding up a card written by an illiterate public education teacher that had a word presented wrong?
Turns out the mind-numbed media was actually so fond of Quayle they decided to get dumb enough to actually misuse/misspell their own words without help from teachers.-
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sinophil495 months, 3 weeks ago
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You are referring to the typographical error of "that" instead of "than"? That is simply a minor glitch that was not cleaned up by the editor (Spellcheck is useless for this type of typo).
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You are also referring to VP Dan Quayle. He did not simply hold up a card with a misspelled word. He had asked a boy to spell "potatoes," which the child did correctly. Then Quayle attempted to correct him by spelling "potatos." The child, I think, was taken aback and Quayle repeated the wrong spelling. The teacher had nothing to do with the misspelling, but she prudently kept her mouth shut. There was no card she wrote or that Quayle held up.
This is res ipsa loquitor evidence of your selective memory.
You really have denigrated public school teachers as a group when you so flippantly said "illiterate public education teacher." The vast majority are dedicated, hard-working, idealistic people working under stressful conditions, underpaid, and (as evidenced by you) underappreciated. I salute them one and all.
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THOMNH625 months, 4 weeks ago
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if you want a judge that will legislate rather than uphold the constitution then he has found the right, I mean left, one. If you want supreme court justices not to act like a third branch of the government and do what they are supposed to do which is uphold the US constitution then by her own words Obary's choice is way off here.
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donald515 months, 4 weeks ago
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Thom, its your repug judges, scalia, thomas, alito & roberts who support the Unitary Executive and already voted to throw out habeas corpus, 800 years of accepted western law.
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It was also one of your repug nominees who ran on a platform of changing the Constitution - Huckabee!
It was another of your presidents who said the Constitution is just a piece of paper and ignored the part that says the law is adhereing to international agreements!
Only two presidents, both repugs, have said they are above the law: Nixon & Dumya!
More revisionist history to try and hide your lack of values, adherance to the law and a lack of a conscience?
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madfam0045 months, 4 weeks ago
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iN THE PAST WASHIGTNTON DC WAS THE WEAKEST FORM OF GOVERNMENT AND NOW IS THE OTHER WAY AROUND. GOVERNMENT WORKERS WERE THE LOWET PAYED AND NOW, THEY ARE THE HIGHEST PAID AND HAVE BETTER BENIFITS THAN THE PRIVATE SECTOR. NOW EVERYONE WANTS A JOB WITH THE GOVERNMENT: HIGHEST PAY, BEST HEALTH BENEFITS, GURANTEED RETIREMENT. HOW MORE SOCIALIST CAN THAT BE?
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donald515 months, 4 weeks ago
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its not sociolism, its what happens when failed government lets big business screw its employees! Dumya said outsourcing was good and made no effort whatsoever to save american jobs or to limit big oil scalping Americans and contributing to the depression we're in!
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Hey, Dumya hired unqualified folks as long as they passed his questionaire on how great he was! Good Job, Brownie!
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donald515 months, 4 weeks ago
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We are one vote away from throwing out habeas corpus and approval of the Unitary executive with Scalia, Thomas, Roberts & Alito... too close to completely changing America for the worse! We can't afford to have someone who agrees with these extreme, right wing ideologues!
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shining25 months, 4 weeks ago
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May 26, 2009
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Dear Propeller:
President Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor is a brilliant one.
Her accolades which precede her and a legacy for the history of this country and her family is imminent.
Although her judicial opinions will most likely be interpreted by many but her vision and direction are unequivocally and judicially refined.
Because our society is in complete revision of itself and reflective of the 1960's many inquisitions will proceed but fail to conquer the U.S. Supreme Court.
You Judge Sotomayor will grace this court with integrity and honor.
Best Wishes,
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Icantwait5 months, 4 weeks ago
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My Fellow Americans: Well, the President was at it again. Searching around the bottom of the barrel or garbage heap looking for a Justice and who did he find? A Radical who will be making decisions not on the Legality of the Constitution but on whether or not it will help out the Latino Communities. The new radical feelings judge just what America needs. What exactly does that mean? It means that the individuals ancestors that made America, a country supreme, will be losing more of their Constitutional Rights. That seems just fine with the Radicals that call themselves Liberals now inhabiting our neighborhoods. Soto Mayor has now changed her name to the Hollywood version, since she is now on the Hollywood stage to Soto Mai Ore, or whatever. Get use to it America we will now be killing more babies, making illegals legal, making Spanish the new American language, providing more aid to the worthless, and living like our slumdog neighbors. Just what our President, that you Radicals elected, wanted. I hope you Moderates and Liberals without brains that elected the Racist who has the perfect Con Artist Teleprompter Writer are now happy. Instead of improving our Country let's just keep running it into Hell. The Real American
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peterwoohoo5 months, 3 weeks ago
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You Libs are the Real Racists...Always try to confuse, using smoke & mirrors. You hide & never back up your ideas, you think the world owes you....Guess what, Go work for it! I'm sure by now that Obumya has paid for your gas, mortgage, credit card, food, phone, hospital.....oh that's right the Evil USA spends over 350 BILLION per year on Medicaid.
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This minority female is no more qualified than the current
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letmegetthisstraight5 months, 3 weeks ago
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so let me get this straight GHBush appoints this woman to federal court and the ultra right wing of the republican party doesn't think she's conservative enough?? I guess that Bush's father is now considered a flaming lib by the redneck self righteous minority in america...they are getting as bad as the islamic fundamentalists in their extremism
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peterwoohoo5 months, 3 weeks ago
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Who are you talking about...."this woman?"....any person who thinks & says the what Sotomayer implies is a joke. She has no intention of enforcing the US Constitution.....60 percent of her cases in Court overturned...Outbased education! Here's her quote:
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"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's a liberal racist, so she's the perfect choice for the Left.
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