celticlord
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We?No..now we are going to have more of a level playing field..
We?
Unless you're a charter member of the Klan with the tan, there's nothing here for any "we".
And somehow looking to their copy of the constitution is not good enough. You don't change a job because it is boring.
You mean like her racist remarks are now off limits?
The two ways of lookng are not necessarily exclusive or contradictory.
Doeas anyone have a link to those 2001 remarks of hers so that we can reaqd them IN CONTEXT and possibly not OUT OF CONTEXT.
The 'Empathy' Nominee - WSJ.comIn a speech published in the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal in 2002, Judge Sotomayor offered her own interpretation of this jurisprudence. "Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases," she declared. "I am . . . not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, . . . there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, 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."
In April, the Supreme Court overturned 6-3 her 2007 ruling in Riverkeeper v. EPA in which she found that the EPA could not consider cost-benefit analysis in judging whether companies need to upgrade to the best technology available, even when the costs were wholly disproportionate to the benefits. And in the 2006 case of Merrill Lynch v. Dabit, the Court ruled 8-0 to overturn her position that a state class-action lawsuit against Merrill Lynch was not pre-empted by federal law.
A intelligent latino woman would be just the change this country needs on the Supreme Court..
The chances are really good that the will act in more of a responsible manner than any of the old white farts that have been in Washington over the last eight years who were only concerned about their party. That's why they had no problems with dragging our country into the sewer before they got booted out.
Bye Bye old white fart politics.....good riddance..
Doeas anyone have a link to those 2001 remarks of hers so that we can reaqd them IN CONTEXT and possibly not OUT OF CONTEXT.
Why don't you find them... are you talking about the one where she said a latino female is wiser then a white man?
The 'Empathy' Nominee - WSJ.com
A intelligent latino woman would be just the change this country needs on the Supreme Court..
The chances are really good that the will act in more of a responsible manner than any of the old white farts that have been in Washington over the last eight years who were only concerned about their party. That's why they had no problems with dragging our country into the sewer before they got booted out.
Bye Bye old white fart politics.....good riddance..
"old white fart politics" is not a racist statement because a liberal said it, and it is about white people, and yet there is no double standard and no hypocrisy or shame.
I am not upset with that quote because reaching a better "conclusion" does not mean that she is calling the old white men less wise but possibly that her conclusion could be better becasuse of her experiences which are diferent than the old white men.
So it's not a take away from the old white men but an additive by her experiences.
Isn't that possible !!!!!
I think when you read her speech in its entirety the whole thing only becomes more worrisome. Blah blah blahing on about everything from pig intestines to beaming with pride that inevitably her being a woman and a Hispanic will absolutely effect her ruling on the bench. She's overcome with elation about this, has zero shame, and makes no apologies from what I can tell. Her biggest concern seems to be limited to getting more people of color and women on the bench so that together they can exact change and measure that change with the acuity with which they proudly measure skin color I suppose.
She's all about being Latino. Beaming with her Latino-ness and her femaleness and how she can't wait for that to have it's effect on the bench and her rulings.
Heaven help us. As a woman I'm embarrassed.
I can only imagine if a man went on about his manliness and his cultural upbringing of steak and potatoes and how he positively can't wait for his dick and pale skin to have an effect on his rulings, an inevitable effect, one he is proud of.
The speech reeks of, "Do not be blind to color. COLOR IS ALL THAT GOD DAMN MATTERS...that and HAVING A VAGINA!
Good freaking lord.
I am not upset with that quote because reaching a better "conclusion" does not mean that she is calling the old white men less wise but possibly that her conclusion could be better becasuse of her experiences which are diferent than the old white men.
So it's not a take away from the old white men but an additive by her experiences.
Isn't that possible !!!!!
Translation?
Don't you even think of raising any objections or else.
It's about the way our nation has been run for the last 200 plus years..
It's about time we wake up and change..
Hopefully the Republicans will grow some balls and do the same thing to her that the Democrats did to Bork.
The Republicans balls were blown up on 9-11.
Somehow the same policies are different if they are instituted by someone of a different race.
Its stupid to praise someone on race alone but she is not exactly unqualified now is she? But whatever rocks their boat, i am merely clarifying what i think WH was saying 'be careful' on.
Her education and experience speaks for itself.
Has our society change or evolved in several ways reguarding race and heritage over the last 200 years? Shouldn't everybody in every race and every economic level have equal representation in the Supreme court?
It has nothing to do with race. It has more to do with equal representation of the way our society has evolved and will continue to evolve.
Stuck in the past is not a good place to be.
It's about the way our nation has been run for the last 200 plus years..
It's about time we wake up and change..
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