Sonia Sotomayor: A Radical Like King Hussein

The Sotomayor saga. Not really unique. Besides the usual hypocrisy of Democrats making it their policy to block every Republican nominee and expect Republicans in turn to confirm theirs, we have the sanitizing of the liberal nominees statements.

Sonia Sotomayor said in 2001 that “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge] than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” This implies that a Latina Woman has richer experiences than a white male, which isn't necessarily true, and makes her a bigot. Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, and Tom Tancredo have called it as such. Here's the Key: No one has denied the charge, the White House and the Matrix have only said that this criticism is too harsh and to shut up. Obama wants her to have a do-over saying, "Well, I think if she had it to do again, if she had it to say again, she would choose her words different."

Then there's the 1994 statement that “Justice O’Connor has often been cited as saying that “a wise old man and a wise old woman reach the same conclusion in dueling cases. I am not so sure Justice O’Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes the line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, if Prof. Martha Minnow is correct, there can never be a universal definition of ‘wise.’ Second, I would hope that a wise woman with the richness of her experience would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion.” This shows she's been making statements like this for years, and the Democrats can't say it's a slip of the tongue. I for one, do not want someone who will inject bigotry and sexism into The Supreme Court.

This is a reflection of President Obama because he nominated her. A president will only nominate judges with a legal and worldview similar to his. King Hussein's worldview was shaped by Karl Marx, Saul Alinsky, Frank Marshall Davis, and Jeremiah Wright. We all know by now that the Rev. Wright is a big time bigot.

Then there's Sotomayor's Puerto Rican Nationalism. Check out part of this assessment of Sonia Sotomayor’s senior thesis at Princeton:

First, I'm curious as to when Sotomayor ceased being a Puerto Rican nationalist who favors independence — as she says she does in the preface. (The position, as she points out in the thesis, had received 0.6 percent in a 1967 referendum, the most recent such vote before she wrote the thesis.) I don't know that I've seen it reported anywhere that she favored Puerto Rican independence, which has always been very much a fringe position. . . .

Second, her unwillingness to call the Congress the U.S. Congress is bizarre — in the thesis, it's always referred to as either the 'North American Congress' or the 'mainland Congress.' I guess by the language of her thesis, it should be said that she's seeking an appointment to the North American Supreme Court, subject to advice and consent of the North American Senate. This kind of rhetoric was very trendy, and not uncommon, among the Latin Americanist fringe of the academy.

Fits pretty well with King Hussein's we're all global citizens mantra, doesn't it?

First Lady Michelle Obama has also weighed in on this. At the Mathematics Science Technology High School, First Lady Michelle Obama gave the commencement address, this a part of what she said:

MICHELLE OBAMA: I read the story of Judge Sonia Sotomayor. She went to Princeton, and in the story she said that when she arrived at Princeton as a freshman -- and this was nine years before I would even think about going -- she said when she stepped on that campus, she said -- and this is a quote -- she said she "felt like a visitor landing in an alien country." Despite all her success at Princeton and then she went on to Yale Law School where she was at the top of her class in both schools, and despite all of her professional accomplishments, Judge Sotomayor says she still looks over her shoulder and wonders if she measures up. And when I read her story, I understood exactly how she feels.

This is the first lady of the United States admitting that Sotomayor is still carrying around a chip on her shoulder, she still feels inferior because the evils of this culture and what it did to her -- letting her into Princeton, finishing the top of the class -- she got a chip on her shoulder, she still feels inferior, still has a guilt complex, and so does Michelle Obama. The first lady of the United States, I understand how mad she is, I understand the chip on her shoulder, I understand her story. The people running this country -- Obama, his wife, Sotomayor -- they're mad. They're angry. They still feel the need for retribution. They gotta show somebody how mad they are, still gotta teach somebody a lesson, they gotta get even.

So Michelle Obama describes the fear that Sotomayor felt at Princeton -- and its lasting effects to this day." I've been laid off multiple times. I've been told "you can't". If you go through the rest of your life trying to show those people that they were wrong, you're never going to be happy because they're never going to admit it and you'll never know how they really feel." That advice was some of the best advice I ever got. Don't use as your motivation the "I'll show them," in a personal sense, because it poisons you, it distracts you from the real reason you're trying to succeed. Well, somebody needs to give this advice to Sonia Sotomayor and Michelle Obama. Get over it. You've overcome it.

Mrs. Obama, you are the first lady of the United States of America. If you want to run around and still act like you are the victim of a great injustice, because you grew up in America, a country you said that you were never proud of, until a year-and-a-half ago, then it's really time to get over it, because this kind of attitude results in the formulation of policy. This kind of attitude results in speeches that you give. This kind of attitude causes your husband to apologize for your country all over the world. This kind of attitude makes it possible for you to never be happy no matter what you achieve. I want to be happy and I believe that most people aspire to be happy. The American left is oriented toward being miserable. Misery, rage, and anger are their happiness. I can't relate to it. I understand it, but I just don't relate to it. (HT Rush Limbaugh, Heritage Foundation, Reuters, Real Clear Politics, Hot Air, NewsBusters, & National Review):

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Reuters: Racial Ruling Looms Large for Sotomayor
Real Clear Politics: 'Out of Context' - Thomas Sowell
NewsBusters: Mark Levin Says Damaging New Sotomayor Texts Emerging: Will Media Notice?
National Review: Former (?) Puerto Rican Nationalist Nominated to North American Supreme Court
National Review: Is It Going to Be Race and Resentment, All the Time? - Victor Davis Hanson