Posted on 05/31/2009 3:32:03 AM PDT by Dallas59
WASHINGTON: The White House sought on Friday to quell a controversy over US supreme court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's 2001 comment indicating Hispanic women may decide cases better than white men, saying she used a poor choice of words.
In an NBC interview, President Barack Obama said he was sure Sotomayor "would have restated" her comment. "If you look in the entire sweep of the essay that she wrote, what's clear is that she was simply saying that her life experiences will give her information about the struggles and hardships that people are going through — that will make her a good judge," Obama said.
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Silly me.
No wonder we have so many confused people running around this country. Truth doesn't matter to many, nor is it considered honorable.
If she had honor she would withdraw her nomination.
The difference being, when a Conservative uses a poor choice of words, they are run out of town on a rail! Can you say Trent Lott!
The “Special Kind” we have in the White House is not showing me much.
Racist nazi b!tch!!!
LLS
Obama said he was sure Sotomayor “would have restated” her comment.But did not.
Poor choice of nominee? ABSOLUTELY!
Mr. President,
Life experiences don’t make you a good judge. What makes you a good judge, first and foremost, is a knowledge and appreciation of the US Constitution.
This is what happens when you don’t use a teleprompter. You actually say what you are thinking.
She meant EXACTLY what she said. What dunces they must believe us to be to try and take the fat off the pig.
the MSM is pushing the “cherry picking” method of defending sotomayer.
New flash to the MSM, jusdges DO take their biases into the court. They just learn to conceal it when the court reporter (or digital tape recorder) is taking all statements down.
There are no reporters on WHAT those 60% reversals were reversed on. only 40% of her opinions are allowed to stand and how many of those 40% ended because one side ran out of money to appeal?
The LA Times did a story today using the cherry picking method.
FNF reported that even in law school she was demanding quota hiring of “latino” professors. Sotomayer is a quota queen.
Imagine if a city had a promotion test and the high score for the promotion was a person of black descent. THEN in order to avoid the promotion the city invalidated the test. There would be no question. Sotomayer in her opinion VALIDATED a city doing just that because the high scores were people of the wrong skin color.
She did not choose the wrong words. She selected the right words to express her LONG ESTABLISHED VIEW. (for those in rio linda and the MSM denyers which includes OReily, this means she is a racist and/or sexist) This BS effort is pure clintonian nonsense from the WH.
When a white guy makes a similarly “poor choice of words” he never hears the last of it. Sotomayor gets a pass.
Poor choice of words and poor choice for justice.
I dont hear Christo chirping now.
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