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Posted on 05/29/2009 1:09:13 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
W.H. concedes Sotomayor misspoke By: Carol E. Lee May 29, 2009 03:50 PM EST
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs sought to tamp down criticism over controversial comments Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor made in 2001, regarding whether a Latino judge might render “better” rulings than a white judge, saying the judge would choose different words if she could give her speech all over again.
“I think she’d say that her word choice in 2001 was poor,” Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters. “She was simply making the point that personal experiences are relevant to the process of judging, that your personal experiences have a tendency to make you more aware of certain facts in certain cases, that your experiences impact your understanding … and that, on a court that’s collegial, that it can help others that are trying to wrestle with the facts of those cases.”
Gibbs came prepared for the question about the remark, which Sotomayor critics have seized on to call her a racist. The president’s spokesman read a few quotes he had with him on the podium from Justice Samuel A. Alito describing how his heritage informed his work as a judge.
Sotomayor’s comment, made during a 2001 speech to a University of California, Berkeley conference, suggested that her ethnic background would make her a better judge.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
MISSPOKE? I thought she was taken out of context???
Mr. Gibbs: Does the president believe he makes better decisions than the his 43 white male predicessors because of his Afro-American experiences?
Follow up sir: Is the president’s judgement as a black male as good as an hispanic female?
Words have meanings, and they matter. Particularly for Justices of the US Supreme Court.
So she “misspoke”. She’s still a racist bigot.
This is the clincher.
The good news is that if the White House is issuing clarifications, the nomination is in trouble.
Apparently, words only matter and are worthy of criticism when they’re uttered by conservative Republicans.
My advise is climb in the gutter with these Liberal traitors and use their tactics back on them. Nice guys come in last. In this case, it’s our country at stake and our Constitution, our freedom, and our future.
If she can’t form a coherent statement that expresses her thoughts accurately is she Supreme Court material?
“She was simply making the point that personal experiences are relevant to the process of judging, that your personal experiences have a tendency to make you more aware of certain facts in certain cases, that your experiences impact your understanding
BS. All that is needed is an understanding of THE U.S. CONSTITUTION and the intellectual ability to apply that understanding. Personal experience is absolutely irrelevant, uless of course, you are an admitted racist and plan to legislate from your seat on the federal judiciary.
If a white man had said the exact same thing substituting white for Hispanic and male for female, would you be excusing, or excoriating? If a white male says his white maleness is "relevant to the process of judging", does this statement help or hinder his chances of being on the Supreme Court?
Bull. Her words were carefully chosen for the audience to which she spoke. Now a different audience so she has to make excuses. She had uttered similar sentiments previously so this statement is a bald faced LIE. So typical of libunists!
Limbaugh, “the last man standing”, in spite of protests by many so-called conservatives, dared to point out that this quote of the nominee shows her to be an obvious racist, and now it has finally bubbled up to where the King and his servants feel they must deign to comment on it.
How inconvenient for them.
mis·speak (ms-spk)
v. mis·spoke (-spk), mis·spo·ken (-spkn), mis·speak·ing, mis·speaks
v.tr. Applied to any Liberal statement or assertion that is stupid, embarrassing, racist, or patently idiotic so that the statement may be withdrawn by a fawning prostitute media who then brand critics hatemongers
Context? I thought it was just context?
Muggers and drug thugs also “make poor choices,” in the “never-say-anyone-on-our-side-is-guilty” vocabulary of the Left.
She meant exactly what she said....does she think we are stupid???
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