Posted on 05/26/2009 2:40:32 PM PDT by vadum
Edited on 05/26/2009 3:19:03 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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.
A search of philanthropy databases reveals other significant donors to LatinoJustice to be Carnegie Corporation of New York ($1,025,000 since 2000), Ford Foundation ($2,280,000 since 2001), Rockefeller Foundation ($1,275,000 since 2000), and JPMorganChase Foundation ($70,000 since 2001).
Among radical left-wing groups, it has a fairly garden-variety agenda. A captive of identity politics, it pushes for enforced multiculturalism, diversity, bilingual public education, race-based gerrymandering of electoral districts, race-based employment quotas, tenants' rights, and illegal immigrants' rights.
LatinoJustice PRLDEF was known as the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund until last year when it filed Articles of Amendment with New York State to change its name.
They use subjunctive mood to say all sorts of horrible things about each other, claiming they didn't really say it because it's all a series of "if" or "would/could" clauses.
Actually, she screwed up when she said it in English. First of all, she also calls her self a Newyorican, not a "Latina". So it's a trick. You think "Latina" and look at her, and it's not about her, but someone of a totally different culture and race. So, that means you have to flip the rest of it and it becomes "Not her, me" and "I will make a better decision than any white man".
So, yup, she's a smartmouthed Newyorican. And she's a bigot.
She knows something about Obama ~ and it's not nice.
Apparently a Latino male doesn’t have enough richness to reach good decisions, either.
Any responsible Latino male would smack her down like a POS first chance he got. The woman is foul.
Then don't read it.
That Bush family just keeps on giving...
Then don’t address it to me.
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Don’t flatter yourself. You just happened to be the last post in that thread when I ‘addressed it to you’ (as in posted it). Sorry for getting your panties in a bunch over such a non issue.
AS long as benefits are accrued because of one's race or ethnicity they will keep on calling themselves Latino/a “hasta que reviente las vacas a casa.” Or until affirmative action gets a shaft through the heart.
I accept your apology.
Hell, we got a Kenyan in the white house. Why not? Ain't diversity freekin wonderful?
The O-bot knows she's an idiot, but he' playing politics for keeps. He nominates a Latina (win) who happens to be a radical (pleases base). Republicans attack and he caves with mumbles of "racists, bigots..." thus upsetting Latino activists (win). Conservatives will celebrate the win visibly earning Latino ire (win). Then he gets to nominate his truly diabolical commie Ginsburg clone and the RINOs will swoon at his/her "legal scholarship."
It doesn’t matter if the nominee is a aged crippled eskimo lesbian... it’s a strawman/smokescreen/red herring to distract from the nominee being a communist activist.
Or some sort of a straw smoked herring thing.
sophist1542, earlier sophister (c.1380), from L. sophista, sophistes, from Gk. sophistes, from sophizesthai "to become wise or learned," from sophos "wise, clever," of unknown origin. Gk. sophistes came to mean "one who gives intellectual instruction for pay," and, contrasted with "philosopher," it became a term of contempt. Ancient sophists were famous for their clever, specious arguments.
philosopherO.E. philosophe, from L. philosophus, from Gk. philosophos "philosopher," lit. "lover of wisdom," from philos "loving" + sophos "wise, a sage.""Pythagoras was the first who called himself philosophos, instead of sophos, 'wise man,' since this latter term was suggestive of immodesty." [Klein]
Modern form with -r appears c.1325, from an Anglo-Fr. or O.Fr. variant of philosophe, with an agent-noun ending. . . .
I guess knowledge of the law and the Constitution is irrelevant, all you need are “rich experiences”.
Ding. ding. ding.
You took the thoughts right outa my head.
Yep, she’s a pawn. (For added value, say pawn with a NY accent). A golden pawn.
I actually think I understand what you mean, LOL. Isn’t that part of the reason the world thinks Americans are so brash, even rude - we speak so directly?
Blame Bush for Estrada not getting confirmed. After 9/11 he was King George with a 90%+ approval rating. He could have threatened hellfire on any Senator for opposing Estrada, or ANWR, or other issues he caved on. I actually would have preferred Janice Rogers Brown over the rather moderate Alito, if only Bush had gone LBJ on the Senate to get her in.
I sure hope our senators are getting information like this.
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