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Sonia Sotomayor | All Days Long — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:32:29 +0000

[...] Pat and Sonia | The Moderate Voice By DALITSO NJOLINJO So when Buchanan says play the race card with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to reconnect with lost Republicans I assume that this strategy is a politically potent one. Truth be told, the White House have not done very well in … The Moderate Voice – http://themoderatevoice.com/ No tags for this post. [...]

By: Father_Time

Father_Time — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:51:20 +0000

Pat Buchanan is not intelligent. He is a talking head gone political and failed. He says what he says because he knows that a clown with notoriety will always make money on the boob tube political shows. I suspect that it is worse than you expect. As long as you are focused on the benign and nearly likable antics of Pat Buchanan, you may feel comfortable and overlook the real hatred that sits below the surface within the republican party.

Pat Buchanan is the redneck version of an uncle tom.

By: PJBFan

PJBFan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:36:32 +0000

This reminds me of why the picks of Justices Thurgood Marshall, Clarence Thomas, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were actually quite brilliant. This pick reminds me more of the pick of Sandra Day O'Connor, or Harold Carswell. We have a competent, but not stellar, jurist who is expected to be a solid vote for a specific side of the political spectrum, with a pick that as obviously political and far too obvious.

By: ernest123

ernest123 — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:18:53 +0000

Sometimes the ignorance of seemingly intelligent people astounds me. For centuries justices have been picked with one overriding criteria, that they be white males. Out of a population of half a billion people, there are bound to be more than one qualified person for a supreme court appointment. So what criteria is used? A chance to diversify the nation's highest court in a diverse nation is beyond long in coming. Additionally, this woman has the most judicial experience of any nominee. Minorities have been defined by their ethnicity since this country's beginning, and will continue be so defined for a very long time. It's not a faucet that can be turned off because white men are now nervous. This is the country that 'they' made.

By: jwest

jwest — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:59:02 +0000

Thank you for the first intellectually honest article I’ve seen on the Sotomayor appointment.

Although we disagree politically and on whether or not Pat Buchanan is racist, we agree that Obama made a mistake by overtly picking a Hispanic woman instead of the best liberal mind he could find.

What will the future hold if Sotomayor’s opinions, even if they are in the majority, are not intellectually on par with Scalia or Roberts? It was more important to find someone who can effectively argue the constitutional merits of a point of law from the left than to fill an ethnic quota.

On this, we can agree.

By: Prose Before Hos

Prose Before Hos — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:13:58 +0000

Conservatives & Historical Hypocrisy In Screaming Affirmative Action…

One of the highly entertaining aspects of Sonia Sotomayor nomination and confirmation process has been the constant refrain of “Affirmative Action” pushed by conservatives as they seek to undermine Sotomayors reputation. You see, in conserv…