Posts from — May 2009

Let the race card playing begin!   Step right up; dare to criticise the Candidate.    Be condemned as a racist!      Only subtly and without a good sound bite for the talking heads.

In case anyone was unable to read between the lines, that’s exactly what happened during a press conference today (27 May ) at the White House.

“I think it is probably important for anybody involved in this debate to be exceedingly careful with the way in which they’ve decided to describe different aspects of this impending confirmation,” Gibbs said. 

Translation: No questioning Sonia Sotomayor’s extreme leftist views: that’s racism.

Gibbs was responding to a blog posting by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich accusing Sotomayor of imposing identity politics on the bench and declaring: “A white man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. A Latina woman racist should also withdraw.”

The exchange was triggered when reports surfaced that Supreme Court candidate Sotomayor once opined  “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,”

This nominee was selected by the President who insisted during the campaign “There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America – there’s the United States of America.”

Seems rather clear to me.  Ms. Sotomayor, in voicing her opinion that a “wise Latina woman” will, for the most part, make better decisions that a white male is engaging in racial stereotyping: white men are less empathetic than Latina women ergo Latina women make better judges then white men.

Sheer, utter, nonsense.  (Incidently, empathy has no place in law.)

That such a biased individual might sit on the highest court in the land terrifies me.

Sonia Sotomayor, unlike President Obama, has a paper trail and following that trail, wherever it leads, is the legitimate exercise of the journalistic profession.

So Mr. Gibbs, I respectfully request you allow the vetting process to proceed normally. Stop the threats so thinly veiled in PC speak.

Face it, the citizenry will find out what Ms. Sotomayor has been up to for the past several years and they’re not going to like it!

Candidate Sotomayor has made some very controversial statements. I expect a “wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences” to understand she is fair game. 

The process is nasty (ask Clarence Thomas or Robert Bork) generating lots of unflattering press.

Comes with the job.

and if God is merciful, she won’t get it.