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You are really just a fucking idiot.

It just really shows how hate filled you are that you just attack her looks and make sexist comments.

Sotomayor was second in her class at Princeton.

She is smarter than anyone on this forum yet you morons just bash her for being unattractive and Hispanic.

The amount of fake rage you guys show to everything Obama does shows how narrow minded you are.

If she does not have the chops to be on the supreme court she will not make it.

Its hilarious how you can bash this selection after Bush nominated Harriet Miers to the bench.

Interesting to note those for her- advocating intelligence--yet main issue in her legal history is want to throw out intelligence "test scores" in lieu promoting those that can't pass test just because they areminorities. :SIB

Maybe she is queen of liberal logic :)

Can I get an Amen Brother-- as B would say

Mr Krauthammer had interesting interview on subject--which is ranked #1 as most read on net by Real Clear Politics--so if you missed it--
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/05/26/krauthammer_reacts_to_sotomayor_pick.html

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You are really just a fucking idiot.

It just really shows how hate filled you are that you just attack her looks and make sexist comments.

Sotomayor was second in her class at Princeton.

She is smarter than anyone on this forum yet you morons just bash her for being unattractive and Hispanic.

The amount of fake rage you guys show to everything Obama does shows how narrow minded you are.

If she does not have the chops to be on the supreme court she will not make it.

Its hilarious how you can bash this selection after Bush nominated Harriet Miers to the bench.

Good post Shawn.

As for her looks, I would bet that some of the guys bashing her looks have done worse.....within the last year (if they still sleep together at all).
 

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You are really just a fucking idiot.

It just really shows how hate filled you are that you just attack her looks and make sexist comments.

Sotomayor was second in her class at Princeton.

She is smarter than anyone on this forum yet you morons just bash her for being unattractive and Hispanic.

The amount of fake rage you guys show to everything Obama does shows how narrow minded you are.

If she does not have the chops to be on the supreme court she will not make it.

Its hilarious how you can bash this selection after Bush nominated Harriet Miers to the bench.

Well said Shawn.

Seventeen years on the bench and they're criticizing her sex, her ethnicity and her appearance. Really sad.

She WILL be confirmed. It's a mathematical certainty.
 

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Interesting to note those for her- advocating intelligence--yet main issue in her legal history is want to throw out intelligence "test scores" in lieu promoting those that can't pass test just because they areminorities. :SIB


I have no problem with people having problems with some of the decisions she has rendered.

I do have problems with people attacking her because of her look and ethnicity. If you are going to hate and disagree with someone at least put the effort to find something worth hating besides race.

I disagree with her decision in that case and believe the supreme court will overturn it.

However, that is one case and I am sure that you can find problems with at least one of the cases from each current member of the supreme court.

She seems to be qualified for this position, was nominated to her first position by 41.

I also thing that having different views on the court is not a bad thing. Old white men have run this country forever and its overdue to have some different races genders political views running our country.

I am sure she will be confirmed.

It seems that only the hannity rush sheep are really bitching about this.
 

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Link? :shrug:

No time to post a link for you, but I read the same yesterday. I have nothing against the woman, but imo her comment was out of line.

Were a white male to have made it, he would have been crucified by Olbermann, Madcow, etc. Instead, a Latina woman made the comment, so she will be hammered by O'Reilly, Limbaugh, etc.

I, for one, am very bored with the business of politics.
 
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You are really just a fucking idiot.

It just really shows how hate filled you are that you just attack her looks and make sexist comments.


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i think you must`ve slept through 8 years of bush bashing in this forum(it`s true,you can`t wake a man who`s pretending to be asleep)_...:rolleyes:

i could care less about her looks...it`s the fact that bho's first crack at the scotus gives us a justice who thinks it's a great thing ("even though she knows she shouldn't...... we're on tape"..giggle)that she'll not only get to interpret our laws, she'll get to re-write 'em....

after all, a wise "latina"(barf) woman's viewpoint is always superior to a stodgy old male white guy's. ....and never mind those pesky elections.... she knows they're all fraudulent, and it's her job to overturn the misguided will of the ignorant people....

and check this decision out..

" Here is one straw in the wind that does not bode well for a Sotomayor appointment. Justice Stevens of the current court came in for a fair share of criticism (all justified in my view) for his expansive reading in Kelo v. City of New London (2005) of the "public use language." Of course, the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is as complex as it is short: "Nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." But he was surely done one better in the Summary Order in Didden v. Village of Port Chester issued by the Second Circuit in 2006. Judge Sotomayor was on the panel that issued the unsigned opinion--one that makes Justice Stevens look like a paradigmatic defender of strong property rights.

I have written about Didden in Forbes. The case involved about as naked an abuse of government power as could be imagined. Bart Didden came up with an idea to build a pharmacy on land he owned in a redevelopment district in Port Chester over which the town of Port Chester had given Greg Wasser control. Wasser told Didden that he would approve the project only if Didden paid him $800,000 or gave him a partnership interest. The "or else" was that the land would be promptly condemned by the village, and Wasser would put up a pharmacy himself. Just that came to pass. But the Second Circuit panel on which Sotomayor sat did not raise an eyebrow. Its entire analysis reads as follows: "We agree with the district court that [Wasser's] voluntary attempt to resolve appellants' demands was neither an unconstitutional exaction in the form of extortion nor an equal protection violation."

Maybe I am missing something, but American business should shudder in its boots if Judge Sotomayor takes this attitude to the Supreme Court. Justice Stevens wrote that the public deliberations over a comprehensive land use plan is what saved the condemnation of Ms. Kelo's home from constitutional attack. Just that element was missing in the Village of Port Chester fiasco. Indeed, the threats that Wasser made look all too much like the "or else" diplomacy of the Obama administration in business matters.

Jurisprudentially, moreover, the sorry Didden episode reveals an important lesson about constitutional law. It is always possible to top one bad decision (Kelo) with another (Didden). This does not auger well for a Sotomayor appointment to the Supreme Court. The president should have done better, and the Senate, Democrats and Republicans alike, should subject this dubious nomination to the intense scrutiny that it deserves."



lord help us....
 

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I could care less if this Judge is seated. I do concede great pleasure in observing the oppposition of her appointment. Most of the opposition comes from a base that would never appose her if her views didn't threaten the America that they so desperately want to hold onto...What about all those that had to face and live threw their fears, just to survive in America ? I love the smell of fear in the morning. If nothing else, segments of our populus will get to empathize with segments of our populus that they never gave much thought to... Keep stirring the pot America. We are not done yet.
 

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You are really just a fucking idiot.

It just really shows how hate filled you are that you just attack her looks and make sexist comments.


QUOTE]

i think you must`ve slept through 8 years of bush bashing in this forum(it`s true,you can`t wake a man who`s pretending to be asleep)_...:rolleyes:

i could care less about her looks...it`s the fact that bho's first crack at the scotus gives us a justice who thinks it's a great thing ("even though she knows she shouldn't...... we're on tape"..giggle)that she'll not only get to interpret our laws, she'll get to re-write 'em....

after all, a wise "latina"(barf) woman's viewpoint is always superior to a stodgy old male white guy's. ....and never mind those pesky elections.... she knows they're all fraudulent, and it's her job to overturn the misguided will of the ignorant people....

and check this decision out..

" Here is one straw in the wind that does not bode well for a Sotomayor appointment. Justice Stevens of the current court came in for a fair share of criticism (all justified in my view) for his expansive reading in Kelo v. City of New London (2005) of the "public use language." Of course, the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is as complex as it is short: "Nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." But he was surely done one better in the Summary Order in Didden v. Village of Port Chester issued by the Second Circuit in 2006. Judge Sotomayor was on the panel that issued the unsigned opinion--one that makes Justice Stevens look like a paradigmatic defender of strong property rights.

I have written about Didden in Forbes. The case involved about as naked an abuse of government power as could be imagined. Bart Didden came up with an idea to build a pharmacy on land he owned in a redevelopment district in Port Chester over which the town of Port Chester had given Greg Wasser control. Wasser told Didden that he would approve the project only if Didden paid him $800,000 or gave him a partnership interest. The "or else" was that the land would be promptly condemned by the village, and Wasser would put up a pharmacy himself. Just that came to pass. But the Second Circuit panel on which Sotomayor sat did not raise an eyebrow. Its entire analysis reads as follows: "We agree with the district court that [Wasser's] voluntary attempt to resolve appellants' demands was neither an unconstitutional exaction in the form of extortion nor an equal protection violation."

Maybe I am missing something, but American business should shudder in its boots if Judge Sotomayor takes this attitude to the Supreme Court. Justice Stevens wrote that the public deliberations over a comprehensive land use plan is what saved the condemnation of Ms. Kelo's home from constitutional attack. Just that element was missing in the Village of Port Chester fiasco. Indeed, the threats that Wasser made look all too much like the "or else" diplomacy of the Obama administration in business matters.

Jurisprudentially, moreover, the sorry Didden episode reveals an important lesson about constitutional law. It is always possible to top one bad decision (Kelo) with another (Didden). This does not auger well for a Sotomayor appointment to the Supreme Court. The president should have done better, and the Senate, Democrats and Republicans alike, should subject this dubious nomination to the intense scrutiny that it deserves."



lord help us....
http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/26/su...bama-opinions-columnists-sonia-sotomayor.html why not post a link and give credit & context
 

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I guess I've never really understood the outcry against Supreme Court nominees making law or changing the law. Isn't that essentially what they are in charge of doing - at least interpreting laws and the challenges to them? I have to say, I may have made this an issue on the Bush appointees, but I don't think so. If I did, I was wrong to do it, at face value. I have to think that we need balance and different views on the bench, and I don't think in the case of the Supreme Court that one judge will be able to be too "activist" with the others that are there with strong opinions.

Apparently, the leading Republican in regards to this appointment agrees with me in principle:

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Top Republican undermines attack on Sotomayor by admitting courts make laws
BY DAVID EDWARDS AND JOHN BYRNE
Published: May 27, 2009

The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee appears to have undermined a key argument leveled by Republicans against Obama?s Supreme Court nominee.

Namely, he said that the Supreme Court ?sets the law? ? and in effect legislates from the bench. Republicans have previously used assertions that judges shouldn?t take activist stances, and should cleave closely to established law.

?She does have to answer some questions and we should not confirm somebody to the Supreme Court that will allow political, personal or emotional issues to influence the decision making,? ranking Judiciary Committee Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) quipped Wednesday on MSBNC. ?This is the Supreme Court of the United States. It sets the law for America.?

Critics of Sonia Sotomayor, whom Obama selected as his nominee to place retiring Justice David Souter, point to a YouTube clip in which she declared that appeals courts ?set policy.?

Added Sessions: ?I think we?re going to treat the nominee very well and fairly. I hope when it?s over, Joe, that the American people would say this is the best, most rigorous, fair hearing they?ve seen. We have a responsibility to do that. And, of course, with [Sen] Chuck Schumer (D-NY) there defending her she?s going to be well defended.?

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It's gotta be tough for some when top Republicans appear to be moonbats... :D
 

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No time to post a link for you, but I read the same yesterday. I have nothing against the woman, but imo her comment was out of line.

Were a white male to have made it, he would have been crucified by Olbermann, Madcow, etc. Instead, a Latina woman made the comment, so she will be hammered by O'Reilly, Limbaugh, etc.

I, for one, am very bored with the business of politics.

That comment was out of line.
Not her finest moment.
 

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This is easy one. She goes in on a 72/28 vote. And she looks like she should.
 

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It will really go down in history as this countries biggest disgrace.

The best part of Sotomayor is that she was nominated to district court by the first Bush.

So all this fake rage from the right should be directed at Bush 41.

Shows how great and bi-partensian the last truly civic minded president to reside in the WH really was. We lost alot when that generation got pushed aside for the Clintons, Bush Jr's and Obama's of the world. None of them would know what honor and service were if it hit them in the face.
 

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Anyone that questions the appointment based on looks is a complete moron. However, anyone that thinks this pick was not political is not far behind. Her coments were blatent and if the roles were reversed "Racism" would be the cry from all the olberman crowd. Having said that, when you are president and have control of congress you have won the right to nominate anyone you damn well please. I would think given some of the other choices that the right would be happy. The more things change the more they stay the same.
 
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