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La XX-Chromosomed Femenino Female Latina Woman
Clearly Nebulous ^ | May 28, 2009 | Colette Moran

Posted on 05/28/2009 11:56:34 AM PDT by CMoran325

Yes, I'm feeling rather hope-less today...

Your English and Spanish lesson for the day: "Latina Woman" is redundant. So is "very liberal Obama nominee" -- but I digress.

When Sarah Palin burst on the scene, I often used shorthand and said how great it was to see a woman on the ticket. But what I really meant -- and said at other times -- was how great it was to see a candidate that has stood up to the status quo and worked to make some real progress and is a servant of the people who doesn't bow to party politics (etc, etc)... who also happens to be a woman.

People on the left argued that Palin wasn't the best choice, and that she was only chosen because she was a woman.

When Miguel Estrada was up for appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals -- did the Democrats laud his "great personal story" of coming to this country at 17 from Honduras with nothing to his name, barely speaking English? No, they were too busy filibustering a Court of Appeals nominee for the very first time. They had to, because they knew if he were approved, Estrada was one step away from the Supreme Court. He had the "correct" pedigree, but alas, the wrong judicial view for the Democrats. They had failed to "bork" Clarence Thomas, and they weren't going to let it happen again with Estrada.

So how does the left respond to the nomination of Sotomayor for the SCOTUS? Suddenly, one's chromosomal make-up and heritage is essential to one of the most important jobs in our nation.

BO is no dummy -- he knew that there'd be a buzz about a nominee who was a Latina. And because of a single decision upholding a ban on the use of government funds for abortions, he believes he can pass her off as a "moderate." How could anyone stand in the way of letting this fabulous story -- fit for Hollywood -- play to the happy ending?

Well, it won't be by challenging her decisions, her intellect, or her disposition -- which apparently are not up to par. It could only possibly happen by asking her this simple question: Can you uphold the oath of the position?

She must be challenged as to whether or not she will be able to stand up and say,"I, Sonia Sotomayor, do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as Supreme Court Justice under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God."

Judge S. has already made it very clear that she will not be able to uphold that oath. She intends to judge with empathy. Justice isn't blind to her. It peeks out from under that blindfold to see your color, gender, social status -- or whichever personal obstacle you've had to overcome -- as you stand before the court.

(And despite that one decision on funding, I'm guessing her empathy only extends to those who can actually stand before her -- not the innocent masses crying out for justice from the hidden refuge of their mothers' wombs.)

We all know how SS should answer that question, but I suspect that the lawyer will rise from within and espouse fanciful legalese to obscure the truth -- and there will be no stopping her appointment. And every future nominee from Obama can be a half-step less to the left and will be declared "even more moderate" than she -- and they will be approved as well.

They will sit on that court decade after decade as tens of millions more preborn lives are slaughtered in the name of "empathy."

I think of all those pro-life voters who cast their ballot for Obama with the unsubstantiated, blindly bestowed belief that he would bring some new kind of approach to government, and incomprehensibly the issue of abortion, and wonder if they realize the most grave error they made.

So while pro-abortion women, Spanish voters, and diabetics can celebrate this nomination, I mourn it as the continuation of a very dark time in our nation. While the former aspect will be another footnote in what is supposed to be a post-racial, post-gender world, don't be fooled into believing it is anything but the latter.

*supremely monumental sigh*


 


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: scotus; sorosmayor; sotomayor
Anyone have any words of encouragement out there?
1 posted on 05/28/2009 11:56:35 AM PDT by CMoran325
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To: CMoran325
Your English and Spanish lesson for the day: "Latina Woman" is redundant.

"Latina Woman"

Perhaps there is message in bottle.


2 posted on 05/28/2009 12:00:06 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: CMoran325

Sorosmayor is a lot of things... feminine isn’t among them.


3 posted on 05/28/2009 12:01:31 PM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "We do not want to become slaves of Washington.")
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To: CMoran325

I hope you find this encouraging:

“”...Your English and Spanish lesson for the day: “Latina Woman” is redundant. So is “very liberal Obama nominee” — but I digress...”

One of the best stanzas of the day in this absolutely crazy poem of a political mess!


4 posted on 05/28/2009 12:02:36 PM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: CMoran325

> Anyone have any words of encouragement out there?

I’m sorry, but, no, I have no words of encouragement.

0bama will get whatever he wants.

In fact, Sotomayor may be a ruse. Conservatives will be bloodied tanking her nomination, whereupon the zer0 will withdraw it and submit something even more abominable. By then the Republicans will be worn down, and public opinion will be turned against them.

I think Bush used this ploy with his nomination of Myers.

It worked for Bush.

It will probably work for 0bama.

Either way, it’s win-win for him. He will appoint a flaming collecgtivist-statist to the court. And the appointment will be approved. If not Sotomayor, then another Marxist. But it will happen.


5 posted on 05/28/2009 12:07:08 PM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: SolidWood

she and Janet Napolitano should out on a date or something.


6 posted on 05/28/2009 12:47:58 PM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Mac Conchradha - "Skeagh mac en chroe"- Skaghvicencrowe)
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