It seems to me this is a watershed moment. Every Republican must vote against this incompetent radical. No more pandering to the soft mushy middle. The Republicans better man up. The folks are fed up. There's more on the nomination of the pro-gun control judicial activist Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Sotomayor is a graduate from Princeton University, where her legal theses included Race in the American Classroom, and Undying Injustice: American "Exceptionalism" and Permanent Bigotry, and Deadly Obsession: American Gun Culture. In this text, the student Sotomayor explained that the Second Amendment to the Constitution did not actually afford individual citizens the right to bear arms, but only duly conferred organizations, like the military. Instead of making guns illegal, she argues that they have been illegal for individuals to own since the passing of the Bill of Rights. (More here)
Obama says, just buy Sotomayor's narrative. Her life story, that's what important. Thomas Sowell wrote in a piece entitled 'Empathy in Action':
It is one of the signs of our times that so many in the media are
focusing on the life story of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s
nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States.
You might
think that this was some kind of popularity contest, instead of a
weighty decision about someone whose impact on the fundamental law of
the nation will extend for decades after Barack Obama has come and gone.
Much is being made of the fact that Sonia Sotomayor had to struggle to rise in the world. But stop and think.
If
you were going to have open-heart surgery, would you want to be
operated on by a surgeon who was chosen because he had to struggle to
get where he is, or by the best surgeon you could find — even if he was
born with a silver spoon in his mouth and had every advantage that
money and social position could offer?
If it were you who was going to be lying on that operating table with
his heart cut open, you wouldn’t give a tinker’s damn about somebody’s
struggle or somebody else’s privileges.
The Supreme Court of the
United States is in effect operating on the heart of our nation — the
Constitution and the statutes and government policies that all of us
must live under.
Barack Obama’s repeated claim that a Supreme
Court justice should have “empathy” with various groups has raised red
flags that we ignore at our peril — and at the peril of our children
and grandchildren.
There's more Sowell at NRO --
Apparently this beauty is council member of La Raza- "The Race". I have blogged on La Raza here.
President Obama's radical new nominee to replace Associate Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, used to serve on the board of LatinoJustice PRLDEF (White House backgrounder), one of the racial grievance groups that helped to sink the judicial nomination of Honduran-born Miguel Estrada in 2003.
Along with groups such as the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), LatinoJustice fought a war of attrition against President George W. Bush's 2001 nomination of conservative Miguel Estrada, a Honduran-born immigrant, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Democrats in the Senate filibustered the nomination and a weary Estrada withdrew from consideration in 2003.
Today LatinoJustice PRLDEF, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit, hailed the nomination of Sotomayor on the basis of her ethno-cultural heritage. "As the second largest and fastest growing population in America, with a large pool of qualified individuals to choose from, it was wholly appropriate for the president to nominate a Hispanic," the group said in a written statement. (PDF)
According to the group's website, it gets some of its funding from George Soros's Open Society Institute.
