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Sotomayor's Socialist Yearbook Quote
beliefnet.com ^ | 5/26/2009 | Steven Waldman

Posted on 05/27/2009 7:17:10 AM PDT by dubie

I'm slightly surprised that the White House press office gave out this image, from her 1976 Princeton yearbook, in which she quotes Norman Thomas.

Norman Thomas was, of course, the leading American Socialist politician of the 20th century. Perhaps they figured it would come out eventually so they wanted to be able to say, "That's old news. We thought it was so inconsequential, we mentioned it ourselves." Or perhaps they felt that substantively didn't matter; Norman Thomas was a pretty mainstream and respected figure, as socialists went. And his quote is universal. Or perhaps they didn't notice.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: pinko; pinkoprinceton; scotus; sotomayor
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UFB!!


1 posted on 05/27/2009 7:17:10 AM PDT by dubie
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To: dubie

That quote doesn’t seem very earthshaking.


2 posted on 05/27/2009 7:20:43 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I agree with Rick..)
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To: dubie

Gee whiz, another brainwashed Ivy Leaguer leftist f**kwit.


3 posted on 05/27/2009 7:21:06 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: dubie

Does the term “extra-special person” set off the gaydar...or is it just me?


4 posted on 05/27/2009 7:22:40 AM PDT by pnut22
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To: dubie
The really sad thing is that if we are successful in exposing this lady for what she is and she doesn't get confirmed...there is a long line of people just like her for Obama to choose...which he will.

Who among the conservative ranks in the Senate have the guts to oppose nominee after nominee with the MSM hammering away day and night? God bless us.

5 posted on 05/27/2009 7:22:41 AM PDT by trtdenver
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To: dubie

I doubt that has a lot of smoking-gun potential. The quote itself isn’t explicitly socialist in nature, and she’ll claim that it was meant in a general, optimistic sort of little-engine-that-could way. She might even claim she didn’t know who Norman Thomas was and was just drawn to the quote when she read it.


6 posted on 05/27/2009 7:22:46 AM PDT by Still Thinking (If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
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To: dubie
A mild quote, but still -- if you have to choose anyone at all, why choose to quote a socialist?

Of course, Obama's yearbook entry quoted William Ayers, so ...

7 posted on 05/27/2009 7:23:02 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are a ruled people, serfs to the Federal Oligarchy -- and the Tree of Liberty thirsts)
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To: pnut22
Does the term “extra-special person” set off the gaydar...or is it just me?

Shoot, just the photo's got my lesbo-meter twitching, but then yearbook pics tend to be sucky anyway, so I may be overreacting.

8 posted on 05/27/2009 7:25:32 AM PDT by Still Thinking (If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
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To: dubie

Shucks,.... I was expecting something like....”Socialismo por siempre...Viva Che!!!


9 posted on 05/27/2009 7:26:35 AM PDT by gitmogrunt (The stupidity of american liberals never ceases to amaze me.)
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To: dubie

Gee. She always was ugly.


10 posted on 05/27/2009 7:27:29 AM PDT by IbJensen (If Catholics voted based upon the teachings of the church, there would be no abortion and no Obomba.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
A mild quote, but still -- if you have to choose anyone at all, why choose to quote a socialist?

So, was she supposed to run a security check on the man and get clearance before she quoted him?

By the same token, no conservative should be allowed to quote George Orwell, who was likewise a socialist.

The content of any given quote is of far greater import than the source of the quote (even supposing that it was known).

Regards,

11 posted on 05/27/2009 7:28:00 AM PDT by alexander_busek
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To: ClearCase_guy

I think you’re right about the significance. It’s that she chose Thomas (grandfather of journalist Evan Thomas, I believe) at all from a universe of people from whom to quote.


12 posted on 05/27/2009 7:28:30 AM PDT by twigs
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To: ClearCase_guy
A mild quote, but still -- if you have to choose anyone at all, why choose to quote a socialist?

Sometimes the quotation itself is worthwhile. Sometimes it can be used ironically. More than a few of us loved singing "The times they are a changing'" in 1980 and 1994. Many a conservative quotes the execrable Voltaire's "The perfect is the enemy of the good" and a lot of decent people have fun saying "That which does not kill me makes me stronger" from Nietszche.


13 posted on 05/27/2009 7:28:51 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (we also have the duty to avoid prostituting our Catholic identity by appeals to phony dialogue)
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To: dubie

All part of the King Obama takeover of America. Socialists, he!!, just another racist and will be another player in the communists run America.


14 posted on 05/27/2009 7:29:37 AM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: dubie

I am not surprised. It’s more in your face from Obama and Company.


15 posted on 05/27/2009 7:30:04 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: dubie

Would be cool if someone could compile a lexicon of quotes attributed by this radical for publication prior to her hearings.

We certainly cannot count on congress to dig this stuff up,
so sounds like we need to do their job for them like we do it for the press.


16 posted on 05/27/2009 7:30:13 AM PDT by Safrguns
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To: alexander_busek

Orwell was different. Yes, he was a committed socialist, but he was a thinker and modified his views throughout his lifetime. He also hated communism with a passion. And he was British patriot who whole-heartedly supported his country in WWII.


17 posted on 05/27/2009 7:30:17 AM PDT by twigs
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To: dubie
GUILTY!
18 posted on 05/27/2009 7:30:36 AM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President)
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To: Still Thinking

LOL...I thought I was the only one with a “Lesbo meter”.


19 posted on 05/27/2009 7:31:14 AM PDT by Cuttnhorse (Obama...the convergence of Affirmative Action and the Peter Principle)
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To: Cuttnhorse

Mine’s been getting so much exercise lately the needle’s getting bent.


20 posted on 05/27/2009 7:32:25 AM PDT by Still Thinking (If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
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