Is Sotomayor a Lock for the Supreme Court?

It happens to every president. The first 60 days or so everyone is hoping for the best, but eventually politics take hold and we are usually slightly dismayed at whoever the president is at the time. Nothing new here.

George. How dare you. This is not true and full of rotten fabricated lies.

You got it Bo. I was surprised that they were actually going to admit that people are upset with the ‘Golden One.’ Nope! The media is so firmly entrenched with the liberals. It is pathetic. Not that I was a big fan of Bush, but if he had been doing the things Obama is doing, they would have crucified him.

Melanie—your “ABC affiliate” is local. you may live in a republican “red” area. a local poll is not a national poll. just yesterday Obama’s approval was at 61%, higher than Reagan at the same time in his presidency. don’t think your “ABC” affiliate’s” poll is a national.

StatingtheFacts—thanks. the right-wingers only know what Limbaugh tells them to believe. and that’s never the facts.

Wow Colin! That part about the media being “so firmly entrenched with the liberals” was cold! The fact is if Bushie had been doing the things Obama is doing now, this mess wouldn’t be as bad as it is! You negative people would like nothing better to see Obama fail. Sounds like you traded Bushie for Rushie!

Colin—you know very well Obama will never do anything as bad as Bush.

Remember when people were judged by the content of their character and job performance and NOT discriminated on the basis of race, gender or ethnicity… Then what happens, we discriminate on the basis of those same factors. A insert race here, for a insert race here; a gender for a gender; Maybe if we had the best scholarly constitutional minds on the court, instead of political idealogues, the Court would make reasonable decisions that would follow the law instead of reinterpret it, to the whim of the majority political opinions, instead of what the bill of rights and constitution actually state in writing…

Colin, you complain that the media hates conservatives, but seriously, why should the media or anyone else like them? In 8 years of power you turned a great country into social excrement with your ignorant, redneck, obstructionist, “Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition” ways and you expect anyone, media included, to like you? And now when you’re finally presented with a chance to prove you’re not what we think you are, you actually turn your backward ways up a notch! Your leader/demigod Rush Limbaugh openly wishes failure for Obama, not a single one of your House members votes for the stimulus plan, and now your party’s governors are saying they’ll refuse stimulus money their people desperately need. And you wonder why the media hates you!
I used to be a conservative back when it meant standing for small government, less intrusion into people’s lives, fewer taxes, and greater emphasis on individual accountability. George Bush and the Republican Congress that followed him lock-in-step changed all that, as well as people’s perceptions of both conservatives and Republicans. Now you are the opposite: you gladly intrude on the lives of both Americans and foreigners with illegal wiretapping and overzealous wars fought for unjust reasons, you love big government and you spend, spend, spend, you hold no one accountable (please, if you think Libby, Goodling and Gonzales are the only members of the Bush administration that deserve criminal punishment, then “accountability” is just a 4-letter word to you), and you want to force religion and religious morality on everyone. But hey, at least you still cut taxes, even though it causes extreme deficits due to your over-spending ways. Now tell me again, why are you surprised the media hates conservatives and Republicans?

What Presidents popularity numbers didnt fall after the first 30-60 days?
Obama still has a 60+ approval rating and it will be more interesting to see where his approval rating are then. Since the Republicans seem more interested in bashing Obama than fixing their own “Ship without a rudder” Republican party they can only hope that the economy doesnt turn around or Obama make right decisions as that would cinch his 2012 2nd term. I think that is why Savage, Rush and Hannidy are on nerve ends.
For years the Republican party have lost touch and now focus on the hope Obama fails. They listen to Rush and Hannidy which are the very examples of what is wrong with the “Grand Ole Party.” Just look at its recent campaine and past. The Republican Party shamelessly abandoned its values. Not only did Republicans disavow their leader (George W. Bush), they pressured presidential candidate John McCain into supporting far-right positions he had previously opposed, thereby destroying his political integrity. Meanwhile, the win-at-all-costs mentality of Republican strategists led to the adoption of an overridingly negative and cynical campaign strategy—one that attempted to demonize Barack Obama by portraying him as a terrorist and someone without a U.S. birth certificate. Even more shameful is that McCain and his campaign (with a handful of exceptions) tacitly endorsed calls for violence against Obama by failing to discourage rally goers who shouted “off with his head” and the like. However, the most irresponsible decision of the year was McCain’s choice of running mate, Sarah Palin, who was painfully unqualified and neither the reformer nor maverick she purported to be. From her very first public appearance it was clear the self-proclaimed “hockey mom” was in over her head, and although handlers bent over backwards to hide her intellectual shortcomings from the American people, she was ultimately exposed as being totally unprepared to be vice-president. Before pointing your fingers at Obama or anyone else, try looking at yourself and what you need to do.

What’s the matter ABC? Hussein get mad at you and make you yank your story about his falling popularity? We all know he’s sinking!
Posted by: bo
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Poor bo, felt a drop of water and now thinks the sky is falling. If anyone even thinks of taking you seriously, you need to sit back and look at the nose-diving
Pres. Obama’s predecessor had during his terms.

but…..can she speak English????

“…the first Hispanic justice” for the Supreme Court –
WHY choose on RACE?
If it’s WRONG not to hire someone because of their race, it’s DEAD WRONG to hire someone based on their race.
But…that’s politics…dirty politics…what a “change” — LOL
ONLY the JOKE is on US

I am not sure how locked in she is. Obama knows more about jurisprudence than any other modern president (Bill Clinton included).
Therefore, he knows that Sotomayer is a moderate in a time when liberal voices are just barely hanging on on the court. I think he wants stronger voices for the left, and I would look out for Kagan, Kathleen Sullivan (the first gay Justice), and Cass Sunstein. Also would look out for a dark knight.

So who will he be replacing on the Court? Was Ginsberg anticipating her own demise? Or was she suggesting Obama should start to pack the Court?
Did Sottomayor pay her nanny’s taxes? Smoke dope in the south bronx in her youth? Go out with some seedy newyorker 25 years ago?
What wouldn’t they go after?

Sonia Sotomayors family is from Puerto Rico, the’ve been US Citizens for over 100 Years. A lot longer then many of the idiots her questioning her qualifications because she’s hispanic.