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Sotomayor did not live her entire childhood in a housing project in the South Bronx -- she spent most of her teenage years in a middle-class neighborhood, attending private school and winning scholarships to Princeton and then Yale. . . .(Via Instapundit.) So, we can't trust her to tell us where she grew up, but we can trust her on the Supreme Court. More at Hot Air.
Sotomayor drew attention to cultural differences between Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans and between Puerto Ricans born in Puerto Rico and those born on the U.S. mainland, and narrowed her ethnicity beyond American, Hispanic and Puerto Rican to "Newyorkrican."
BTW, Jason "Big Sexy" Mattera is also "Newyorkrican," so maybe Obama should nominate Jason to the court. A "wise Latino man with the richnesses of his experiences . . ." Empathy, and all that.
Oh now now ... don't call her out on that ... you'll be accused by our "betters" of going nuclear on her or throwing bigger bombs, etc.
ReplyDeleteDon't you know you're supposed to handle her with kid gloves, Stacy? Don't you know you're supposed to surrender right now, like a good Republican should?
I hope she gets confirmed. Obama's got the votes in the Senate, he'll get who he wants. Sotomayor's not smart enough to do much damage beyond her own misguided votes. She won't convince her colleagues, scholars, or future judges to go left to crazy land with her.
ReplyDeleteThe trick now is for the Senate Republicans to highlight the joke that is liberal legal theory without embarassing themselves. I wish I had more faith in their ability to do so.
Check out what they say about "Newyorkican"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=newyorkrican
This lying ho must go...
Well you don't get any street cred for growing up in a middle class family and going to Yale. Maybe she should fudge her resume a bit and add some Catholic community college with a Spanish name that she failed out of before going to Yale.
ReplyDelete"The trick now is for the Senate Republicans to highlight the joke that is liberal legal theory without embarassing themselves. I wish I had more faith in their ability to do so."
ReplyDeleteSpot on. Also, if they just hit her on racist/identity politics as a point of attack, they'll further damage an already tarnished brand.
Oh my god! Yes! Yes!
ReplyDeleteOf course!
She's "lying " about her autobiography because she didn't... spend her ENTIRE life before adulthood in the South Bronx...
Brilliant!
Seriously, dudes...there was a time when you were creative.
Now?
It's like Vaudeville with seltzer bottles, and the only ones getting wet are your own.
Sooner or later you'll run out of the slapstick talk-radio sophistry that only works,well... among you rubes.
Yet another issue which Y4E deems to be a non-story. Nothing to see here lets just move along.
ReplyDeleteBut I suppose he has a point.
I mean why should anyone care whether the major justification for Sotomayer's nomination (that she has a compelling life story) is accurate? It should be enough that the story currently being told makes everybody feel all warm fuzzy inside.
"I mean why should anyone care whether the major justification for Sotomayer's nomination (that she has a compelling life story) is accurate?"
ReplyDeleteHmmm...and all this time I thought the major justification for her nomination is that she's a judge and she's qualified
to serve on the SCOTUS.
This is a non-story with a dazzling headline.
I mean, the parallel to this story would be bringing up the fact that GW Bush is not really a Texan, on account of him having grown up in Connecticut. Oh, that's right...he spent some of his late teen years living in Texas...
My gawd, the scandal!
Many of you aren't in on the joke: It doesn't matter who BO nominates, the Right will try to destroy that person.
Any comments and arguments is nothing but gamesmanship.
It is telling, however, to see how low the GOP and Cons will sink to make their non-points.
Have it your way, suckers!
You're doing a great job of slowly killing yourselves...
"she's qualified
ReplyDeleteto serve on the SCOTUS"
Queue laughter
Something around here sure is like vaudeville though... even a tad bit burlesque
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