Obamas nomination of Sotomayor

[Lorax]

Rather than a specific link...as you likely miss a great deal if this is any reflection, I will give you a few good search key words.

Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Fox news.

Enjoy.

OK...I will give you one link to start you out http://marklevinshow.com/home.asp

You would listen to Snark Levin, and offer IT as a source. How typically fascist.

You probably love Squeal Boortz and Michael Weener Savage as well.

[Detroitej72]

Lorax, I suggest you read some of the excellent books written by Thom Hartman. His books are great references of the corrupt, morally bankrupt right wing agenda.

[Lorax]

Lorax, I suggest you read some of the excellent books written by Thom Hartman. His books are great references of the corrupt, morally bankrupt right wing agenda.

My favorite is "Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight", Thom's screed on oil and how we're near the end of it.

[[this in no way is a reference to what eminates from Batcrap's rearend)

Thom is truly a gifter writer, and a great talk show host. His "Brunch With Bernie" segments on Fridays is a great conversation with our favorite socialist senator, Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

He and Dennis Kucinich are the ones who should be calling the shots in Washington- in a better world!

[firstandten]

My favorite is "Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight", Thom's screed on oil and how we're near the end of it.

[[this in no way is a reference to what eminates from Batcrap's rearend)

Thom is truly a gifter writer, and a great talk show host. His "Brunch With Bernie" segments on Fridays is a great conversation with our favorite socialist senator, Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

He and Dennis Kucinich are the ones who should be calling the shots in Washington- in a better world!

Thom is a brilliant talk show host its just too bad thats he's on 60 stations and Rush is on about 10 times that many

[Pam]

As far as elevating "race to this level of importance", ask that question to those historical figures in positions of leadership and power in the USA ever since the middle passage.

And before. [[See history of relations with the Native Americans.)

[Lorax]

Thom is a brilliant talk show host its just too bad thats he's on 60 stations and Rush is on about 10 times that many

We can thank Reagan and Clinton for that one. Clear Channel Communications was allowed to own all media in any give market, nationwide.

When you control the message, you control the nation. This still needs to be fixed.

We need the Fairness Doctrine restored and enforced.

[vetalalumni]

Correct Pam.

[ccbatson]

Thom who? How many voluntary listeners does he have?

[Detroitej72]

Thom who? How many voluntary listeners does he have?

Neo-cons and the fringe right will have a hard time listening to him, he actually gives you facts and history lessons.

I wouldn't expect the party of ditto heads to comprehend his articulate sentences and his lack of sensationalist sound bits.

[Jimaz]

The War Over the Courts

[Lorax]

Thom who? How many voluntary listeners does he have?

Voluntary listeners? As if any of Thom Hartmann's listeners don't have a choice in the matter?

They choose to listen because he's intelligent, thoughtful, and has gotten it right on so many levels.

Unlike the fascist right dumbasses like Slush Grimball and Yawn Manatee.

[firstandten]

The only reservation I have about this nominee is that she believes her ethnic background makes her more capable than a white male would be. That is something she is going to have to explain. I tend to agree with Justice O'Conner who said that a wise woman and a wise man would come to the same conclusion in interpreting the law. That is the statement of someone who weighs things without prejudice and an individual I would trust. Mr Obamas nominee appears to be lacking in this quality which I believe should be at the core of any judge anywhere, not just on the Supreme Court.

This is the reason I think Sotomayor is correct in her assessment. One views the world thru the lens of his or hers experience which much is based on the times one is living in.

One could have a decision like Plessy v Ferguson or a decision like Brown v Board of Education with the help of Thurgood Marshall who was chief counsel for the plaintiffs overturned Plessy v Ferguson. Both courts were all white males, both felt they were interpeting the constitution , but came to very different conclusions.

So Sotomayor could also come to a very different conclusion based on her being Latina and the times but that doesn't make her a racist and it doesn't make her unqualified.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v...d_of_Education

[Detroitej72]

One could have a decision like Plessy v Ferguson or a decision like Brown v Board of Education with the help of Thurgood Marshall who was chief counsel for the plaintiffs overturned Plessy v Ferguson. Both courts were all white males, both felt they were interpeting the constitution , but came to very different conclusions.

So Sotomayor could also come to a very different conclusion based on her being Latina and the times but that doesn't make her a racist and it doesn't make her unqualified.

Excellent post.

Unfortunately, the right wont take the time to comprehend that logic, since it would legitimize her as a competent justice.

They only seek to assassinate her character, since she isn't towing their party line.

[ccbatson]

I just saw the footage of Sotamayor where she proudly admits that she was unqualified and achieved her position via affirmative action...sobering.

Did Clarence Thomas use this unjust and unethical liberal loophole to accomplish what he accomplished?

[Lorax]

I just saw the footage of Sotamayor where she proudly admits that she was unqualified and achieved her position via affirmative action...sobering.

Did Clarence Thomas use this unjust and unethical liberal loophole to accomplish what he accomplished?

No, but George Tush did to get where he did, it's called Head Start.

[rb336]

I just saw the footage of Sotamayor where she proudly admits that she was unqualified and achieved her position via affirmative action...sobering.

Did Clarence Thomas use this unjust and unethical liberal loophole to accomplish what he accomplished?

yes, he stated in his confirmation hearings that he got where he was via affirmative action policies, after he was cornered on his anti affirmative action positions

and where, exactly, did you see that footage?

yes, she said AA got her into college, but the standardized tests being used back then have been shown in numerous studies to be heavily culturally biased. there were questions in their that marked an answer wrong if they thought an apartment was equivalent to a home for pete's sake.

She graduated with honors and was extremely successful in her college career, proof that the tests were -- wrong, just as you are

[ccbatson]

Check Hannity's site for the video/audio.

Too bad regarding Clarence Thomas...another victim of Affirmative Action. Carrying doubts to the grave having been robbed of pride and dignity by big brother liberal policy.

[firstandten]

Check Hannity's site for the video/audio.

Too bad regarding Clarence Thomas...another victim of Affirmative Action. Carrying doubts to the grave having been robbed of pride and dignity by big brother liberal policy.

Clarence robbed himself of pride and dignity by being a tool for the RW. Here is a man who got into the schools he did because of AA. and did very well for himself academically. Now he talks like he's ashamed of that fact and works to deny other minorities the opportunities he got. Clarence Thomas should be the poster child on why AA works, its just a shame he is on the court and I hope the next appointment will be an African-American since we don't have any on the court now. All we have is a man with a black face.

[Lorax]

Rather than a specific link...as you likely miss a great deal if this is any reflection, I will give you a few good search key words.

Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Fox news.

Enjoy.

OK...I will give you one link to start you out http://marklevinshow.com/home.asp

Let's see, take a can of tuna, add peanut butter, run it through the meat grinder, add menthol cough drops and a gallon of lukewarm grapefruit juice.....

Sounds like a recipe for fascist frijoles- hang on to your vomit bags, and strap on your drool cups. And away we go....!

[Lorax]

Check Hannity's site for the video/audio.

Too bad regarding Clarence Thomas...another victim of Affirmative Action. Carrying doubts to the grave having been robbed of pride and dignity by big brother liberal policy.

Sending such a fascist political hack to his grave with doubts as to his abilities and how he got there.......priceless.

[ccbatson]

Along with Sotomayor and all of the other victims.

You really need to get a grip on the definition of the word Fascist that you keep throwing around...you haven't a clue as to what it means.

[ccbatson]

Along with Sotomayor and all of the other victims.

You really need to get a grip on the definition of the word Fascist that you keep throwing around...you haven't a clue as to what it means.

[Lorax]

Along with Sotomayor and all of the other victims.

You really need to get a grip on the definition of the word Fascist that you keep throwing around...you haven't a clue as to what it means.

You really don't have to capitalize it, eventhough I know you secretly think it deserves the honor.

I'm not allowing you to draw me or anyone else into your twisted world of shape-shifting the meaning of words.

You need a better grip on syntax and the meaning of such words.

[ccbatson]

That is your retort Lorax? That is it?

[Lorax]

That is your retort Lorax? That is it?

Back at ya.