[Vision2020] Obama to Name Sotomayor as Supreme Court Pick

[Glenn Schwaller]

We have ALL been guilty at one time or another of selectively picking
sound bites to strengthen an argument.  In this case I have read the
links Ms Lund and others have posted, and I agree that they (sound
bites) have been taken out of context.

Based on what I have read and heard, I would consider Judge Sotomayor
neither a racist nor a sexist.  However I do think that these types of
"misquotes" would be used against a white man with a sadly misplaced
sense of entitlement (a bit of a sexiest statement do you not think?).

I do not, however, at this point in time, consider her to be
absolutely imminently qualified to sit on the Supreme Court.  I will
let the vetting process by others who are absolutely imminently much
more qualified than any of us, to make this determination.  It seems
to me there were a few absolutely imminently qualified individuals
initially selected to fill cabinet posts who eventually did not find
themselves in the inner circle.

GS


On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> Courtesy of CNN at:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/26/supreme.court/index.html
>
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>
> Obama to name Sotomayor as Supreme Court pick
>
> WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama has chosen federal Judge Sonia
> Sotomayor as his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, two sources told CNN
> on Tuesday.
>
> Obama plans to announce his nominee at 10:15 a.m. ET Tuesday, sources told
> CNN.
>
> Obama said Saturday he wants intellectual firepower and a common touch in
> the next Supreme Court justice and said he doesn't "feel weighed down by
> having to choose ... based on demographics."
>
> Obama's nominee will replace retiring Justice David Souter, who announced
> this month he would step down when the court's current session ends this
> summer.
>
> There had been wide speculation that Obama would name a woman to the
> court, which has one female justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
>
> Obama also had been under pressure to nominate a Hispanic justice to the
> court, which has never had one.
>
> Obama's nomination will have to be confirmed by the Senate Judiciary
> Committee and the full Senate.
>
> The nominee is not expected to have difficulty being confirmed in the
> Democratic-controlled Senate in time for the new court session in October.
>
> The president has said he hopes to have hearings in July, with the
> confirmation completed before Congress leaves for the summer.
>
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>
> Sonia Sotomayer
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor
>
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>
> Sonia Sotomayer is an independent, liberal woman; kinda like a textbook
> violation of the right-wing three-strike policy.
>
> And she is only 55 years of age.
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
>
> - Unknown
>
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