LOL
"even though I'm a liberal, extreme violence makes me tough on crime"
or along those lines.
Anyone got the actual quote with a link or hear something like that? Thanks!
Howard Dean is sofa king stupid. Wonder why Obama hasn’t replaced him with Bill Ayers.
Actually, Sotomayer’s comment is even worse IN context than is is out of context.
She’s trying to make a point about diversity-is-good, but in a very clumsy way.
Diversity is either good in and of itself, regardless of the backgrounds involved, or it is not.
No need to say one would make BETTER decisions because of one’s race, sex or background. That actually negates the diversity-is-good argument!
The argument for diversity-is-good is premised on the plurality of viewpoints benefiting the whole ... not whether one’s viewpoints are better than others.
At the very least, she’s inarticulate and did’t make a logical point ... a serious deficiency in a SC Judge. If it were just this one quote, I would give her a pass. She may have been speaking extemporaneously. But she has made many such illogical arguments.
Racism is one thing, but lack of logic is quite another.
Howie Dean never improves with time.
The context is she’s a racist and Dean is a moron.
Dolt!!!!
Howard Dean is truly a circus freak.
Then he immediately conceded that he himself had not actually read the full context of the speech in which Sotomayor made the comment.
Idiot buffoons from the left everywhere!.....
Howard admitting that this statement NEEDS context is a huge step forward. This should present a problem for the dems...sadly, it wont. I don’t know the context either, but the statement is racist.
The poohbahs in the media are likely outraged at Howie for pointing out the game they've been playing.
She's saying it was an "unfortunate choice of words" (what words in particular? she doesn't say...), but when you read it in context, its clear that she meant exactly what the quote says - that Latina women are wiser than white men. Race and gender determine worth.
If a white nominee had said he could come to a better decision than an old black man there would be no context from which this could be taken out of. The comment stands on it’s own, regardless of how it was framed.
The context is that she directly contradicted O’Connor comment with a racist one.
So there's no "universal definition of wise," but "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."
That looks contradictory to me: first the relativist assertion that there is no universal truth, and then a claim that better conclusions would more often be reached by the "wise Latina," than the "white male who hasn't lived that life."
Even though you can't say what "wisdom" is the Latina ends up being wiser, more often than not. So you can say what "wisdom" is, at least in a pragmatic sense.
That's something to think about, though what I'd really want to ask Judge Sotomayor is whether she really thinks Mexicans and Puerto Ricans are part of the same "race."