In wcdcc-discuss@yahoogroups.com, "jim" wrote:
Judge Sonia Sotomayor is an outstanding nominee for Supreme Court Justice.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/introducingsotomayor/
Judge Sotomayer is beyond exceptionally well qualified; someone we can proudly support without qualification. Just check her long resume.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor/
It is appalling and disgusting -- the garbage-attacks from the right. As usual, they re-spin nothing or something positive into nasty negativity. Their distortions, only demonstrate their own pathetic negativism and raw bigotry, utterly devoid of any positive basis.
It's a sad time for the US Conservative Movement.
Rather than having any insecurity on this issue, we should proceed full positive speed ahead, touting Judge Sotomayor's exceptional qualifications; without any uncertainty or apology whatsoever; while ridiculing the pathetic baseless nonsense spewed out by the utterly disgusting residual rabid-right. Enough is enough. Can they do no better than that?
Anyone can take them head-on -- this issue's a no-brainer.
--jim
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Sorry if I reply to my own post; but I can't believe today's news.
Dems have a bomb-proof issue, opposition is pathetic -- and what do they do?
Instead of attacking absurd charges of racism head-on, they apologize.
Neo-Con absurdists say "BOO !" - and Democrat Liberals fall to their knees crying "I appologize." Our "professional" party-pols have backbones made of wet spaghetti -- lead around by the nose, passive and defensive, always responding to absurd attacks from bully fanatics.
At least a precious few voices (Goodman, Oberman, Maddow, Schultz, et al) finally have national microphones and are finally telling it like it is. However, even they discuss non-issues for a week or more -- lending them credence -- as intended by the propagandists of the rabid-right, who still totally control the debate.
Arrrrrgh, this is hopeless.
--jim
Comments (4)
We need a better choice for the Supreme Court than Judge Sotomayor.
We already have five RW Catholic judges (not mainstream Catholics) on the highest court of the land. We don't need to load the court with a religious group who is not the majority in our country or have the court "packed" for a religious agenda.
Separation of Church and State is being torn down. We are a democracy not a theocracy (which clergy would prefer). Freedom from religion and for religion by select religious groups could be on the attack. The most powerful group could prevent any others. World religious groups are in wars all the time. We can't have that in America.
Sotomayor has been given a great education, jobs, etc. She's done great in our society. Not giving her the appointment because she's a Hispanic (with La Raza agenda) is not the strongest arguement as far as I'm concerned.
If Obama were to pick a "empathic and diverse" person for the court it would be a lawyer from a public unversity (not Yale and Harvard elite all the time). She would also be an Atheist and a Afro-American woman.
It would be no different than when President Bush nominated a well-qualified Hispanic for the bench, and the Democrats, who tout being for minorities, filibustered the vote.
Bush gave her an appointment. It was a step to the Supreme Court.
Judge Sotomayor has had her decisions overturned by the current Supreme Court several times, with insufficient knowledge of applicable law cited as the reason.
The fact that she is a member of a vehemently ethnocentric (not racist because hispanic is an ethnicity not a race) political organization is a secondary issue but still relevant.
I'm rather disappointed that her tough childhood keeps being mentioned as if it were a job qualification.