Posted on 07/14/2009 12:15:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – It's a good thing Sonia Sotomayor speaks Sotomayoran.
After week upon week in which plenty of other people on the planet interpreted Sotomayor's past comments, the Supreme Court nominee at last got a chance to deconstruct her own words Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Fingers splayed, palms flat, hands bouncing up and then deliberately pressing down to the table, Sotomayor elaborated, clarified, expanded, retracted.
She drew loopy circles on her paper; she ran rhetorical circles around her past words.
"I didn't intend to suggest ..." she explained.
"What I was speaking about ..." she offered.
"As I have tried to explain ..." she parsed.
"I wasn't talking about ..." she demurred.
She was a tough critic at times.
"I was using a rhetorical flourish that fell flat," she averred.
"It was bad," she said. Of her own words.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Member of the Judiciary Committee Jeff Sessions addresses US Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor during her Senate confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Sotomayor, nearly sure to become the first Hispanic US Supreme Court justice, distanced herself Tuesday from her past remark that a Latina woman's heritage might make her a better judge. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)
Sonia the Quota Queen meant what she said and said what she meant. Quit lying and just “man up” to it.
“It all depends on what the meaning of white-guy is...”
Deja vu Clinton days.
It is obvious that she has been given the questions and has been coached on the answers.
Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor answers questions
from senators during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation
hearings on Capitol Hill, July 14, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
What a contrast between Sen Sessions and Gang of 14 Sen. Grahamnesty who works to scuttle conservative nominees, but surrenders on racist incompetent nominees.
I’m in shock that this is an AP article.
Are you suggesting that SCOTUS nominees are actually fed possible questions and coached?
Wow!
Thy name is Sotomayor!
I was relieved to see that soon-to-be-Justice Sotomayor disagrees with years of racist comments from Judge Sotomayor as much as I do.
LLS
Sociopathological liar.
How come Conservatives are proud to be Conservative, but Liberals must lie about not being Liberals?
Diane Feinstein: Oh! Oh Sontie! The theme I've been waiting for all my life. Listen to this sentence: "A Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock, and this thing which tells time". Poetry. Sheer poetry, Sontie! An A+ An A++++++++++++++++++!
Boy, I listened to a lot of this and she is basically saying she did not mean what she said. Well, she said it many times. So, I guess she means that many times she did not mean what she said. But she contends she means what she is saying now, even though it is the first time she has said it. Therefore, the fewer times she says something, the more she means it.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggghhttt........
They talk about Sarah Palin being confused.....This Wise Latina is all mixed up.
The AP is making her sound like an idiot.
Because the liberals know that if they told the truth about what they really believe, they'd be run out of town.
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