The below is not semantics and not flippant.

If Sonia Sotomayor believes she would reach a “better decision” than a white male more often than not (>51%), what logically follows is that she would *not* reach a better decision up to 49% of the time.

Now, I recognize her original statement doesn’t necessarily mean she’d reach a “worse” decision than a white male up to 49% of the time. Possibly she’d reach the same decision (for better or worse) up to 49% of the time. But if she’s admitting that she would reach a “worse” decision than a white male even 1% of the time, this is cause for concern.

Since she felt free to project into the future and comment on the aptitude of her white male colleagues she hasn’t met, she should be willing to state how often she’d make a worse decision than these anonymous white males. Or, if it makes her feel any better, we could phrase the question this way:

How often would a white male make a better decision than you? In these instances, why would they make a better decision?

Here are some additional legitimate questions that I hope are asked in her confirmation hearings:

-Please name instances in your judicial career where white males have made a better decision than you.

-Do you know ahead of time whether you’ll reach a worse decision? If so, why go forward and issue the ruling if you know it will be a “worse” decision? (Implied in your statement is the fact that a “better decision” is the “correct” decision.)

-If you don’t know until after issuing your decision whether it’s the “correct” decision, again, why issue the decision in the first place? (Wait and study the issue some more, since at that time you’d be unsure whether it’s the correct decision.)

-How often would you reach a “better decision” than a white female? A black female? A gay male?

They CANNOT explain away each time and incident as something “innocent” and the speeches are not just the only pieces….

It is clear that any time that she has been REVERSED/OVER-TURNED is simply because it is OLD WHITE JUDGES not recognizing her superior intellect and that it is THEY that are wrong and not her. That is what ObamaBinBiiden clearly means by “serving some justice” by putting her on the bench…. She will straighten everything out and set the “proper new” Empathetic/ReDistributive Justice they have been getting WRONG all these years.

There is absolutely, positively, without question, no way around that she is TOO STUPID to understand how she is a RACIST, SEXIST, CLASS-IST, etc…. which is how she can, with a straight face, deny she is any of those things.

SCOTUS Empathy - SCOTUS Empathy
+2001 Redistributive Justice video Obama’s 2001 Redistributive Justice video
+Identity Politics - Identity Politics
+Hispanic SCOTUS nominee - first Hispanic on SCOTUS?
+SoSo NOT the first (Benjamin Cardozo) - Yahoo: Is Sotomayor the First (or Second) Hispanic Pick for the Supreme Court? A:second (First was a Republican appointment)

on her Supreme Court judicial nominee questionnaire.

According to CNSNews, Judge Sotomayor failed to disclose a Senate memo arguing the death penalty as being “racist”.

JCN Counsel Wendy Long sent a letter Friday to Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and members of the committee arguing that Sotomayor had not properly complied with this requirement because she had not submitted the 1981 memo on capital punishment.

“It is . . . clear that (Sotomayor) has omitted controversial material from her past in which she asserts that ‘[c]apital punishment is associated with evident racism in our society’ and advocated public opposition to restoring the death penalty in New York state,” Long wrote to the committee.

As more and more details are becoming known about Judge Sotomayor, would it be presumptuous of me to say that everything to her is seen through the prism of race more than past experiences?

I have no doubt she’ll be confirmed, but Republicans should drag her over the coals for these kinds of statements. Reagan Democrats will especially be disturbed at this pick if the Republicans can effectively expose Sotomayor for what she truly is. They should also make it clear to the American people that they oppose affirmative action and racial quotas.

Three-fourths or so of voters will be angry at these kinds of statements from Sotomayor, and it will be a poor reflection on Obama. Obama was able to win because he was perceived as being post racial and not playing the Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton-type of aggrieved minority. If he is seen as that type of figure, Americans will abandon him in droves.

Sotomayor will end up being a politically unpopular choice for the Supreme Court, which is ironic because the real reason she was picked was purely political. This pick blew up in Obama’s face. Republicans should not be afraid to press these type of issues when we’re given an opening like this.

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