Comments on: Winning on Sotomayor by picking on Obama

By: Tedgeshoogy

Tedgeshoogy — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:36:20 +0000

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By: David Banks

David Banks — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:43:03 +0000

OH.. and one more thing… (see this is what happens when I shorten the posts)
Hi Kristen, good to see you still fighting the good fight and all…

By: David Banks

David Banks — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:39:02 +0000

“That’s because the small minds on the left love to throw around the race card at every turn. Since they control the media, we have to be careful how we phrase what we say. It’s not as easy on the right, where we generally want to have a reason and logic to what we argue against. It would be much easier if we could blame everything on the rich, or on racism.”

This is the worst post you’ve ever made and I’m willing to ignore it unless you want to reassert that there’s some incredible objective analysis in there I’m missing.

By: David Banks

David Banks — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:37:05 +0000

In case anyone cares about the facts of that case:
http://mediamatters.org/research/200905260068
PS Your link works it just has two http’s in the address.

Also, we all agree that Obama choose Sotomayor because she is a hispanic woman… and…

Oh, and that Palin lady is a moron. Remember when we all found that out together. It was on TV, I saw it. I mean maybe she has some Rainman abilities we didn’t see… but it would take some pretty fancy toothpick stuff to overcome the things we saw last year.

By: Francesca Watson

Francesca Watson — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:41:28 +0000

Charles Krauthammer is one of my favorites. When I have been reading a lot of polarized rhetoric about a particular issue, he is usually a good palate cleanser – and he frequently presents perspectives and additional information I haven’t considered.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:47:45 +0000

I’ll definitely check those articles out, I’m sure there’s info there that I haven’t yet considered.

I totally agree that the race and gender of a person should not be what’s considered when appointing anybody for anything. But race and gender have played a role in every political appointment ever made and in every election in history. I mean, how many people said, “George Bush, he only got elected because he’s a white guy.” Was he really the best the republican party had to offer? Was there no woman or black person more qualified than him? If he had been black or a woman (or a black woman for that matter), can you honestly say he would have had any chance at all?

By: realityunwound

realityunwound — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:19:54 +0000

also note, for the record, that the two judges I mentioned are liberal jurists… I’ve been accused of only being open to far right radicals. Let it not be said. I think Charles Krauthammer has a great approach. to the Sotomayor nomination… check it out here.

I can’t get the link to work. Go to the Washington Post and look up Krauthammer’s article called Rebut, then confirm.

By: realityunwound

realityunwound — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:17:55 +0000

I didn’t say every one on the left had small minds, I meant that those on the left that cry racism or sexism on the left are small minds (just like those on the right who made and make an issue of President Obama’s middle name. It’s not an issue, stop being an idiot). I do believe Obama takes that into account. He’s a savvy guy, that one.

We are on divergent paths on the Sarah Palin issue, I don’t think she was reasonably critiqued. I think she was savaged. The cry from me on that one wasn’t sexism, but rather common human decency. I think Katie Couric & Charlie Gibson both took liberties with her that they never would have taken with Biden, Obama, or Hillary. Now, it was ridiculous & stupid for the McCain campaign to put her out there like that.Obama.

The question I have to ask is if Sonia Sotomayor was Sonia Smith, would she have been nominated. Personally, I don’t think so. I think there were other, more qualified jurists available, even more qualified women jurists. Diane Wood for one (http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/wood-d), and Elena Kagan (http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=112) are two that come to mind.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:04:58 +0000

Small minds on the left? Jason, I thought you were all about respect and not making sweeping generalizations about an entire group of people.

Look, it’s not like republicans have never used race or gender when considering appointments. (Palin, comes to mind), and then cried sexism when she was being reasonably critiqued.

By: realityunwound

realityunwound — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:46:49 +0000

That’s because the small minds on the left love to throw around the race card at every turn. Since they control the media, we have to be careful how we phrase what we say. It’s not as easy on the right, where we generally want to have a reason and logic to what we argue against. It would be much easier if we could blame everything on the rich, or on racism.