Obama Says Political Games Are at Play, With Some Painting Distorted Picture of Sotomayor

Who cares about law & justice when you can have empathy? This candidate for the Supreme Court must be OK because she is from a minority group, evidently a major qualification.
It’s not bad enough that the whole country is dumbing down at a rapid rate but now we can dumb down the Supreme Court as well.
Anyone see the movie, ”Idiocracy” ???

As long as ”empathy” & membership in a minority group are major qualifications for a Supreme Court justice, why not go further, in the interest of equal treatment & fairness.
Shouldn’t we have a pygmy on the Supreme Court, to have empathy for short people, a group sociologists will tell you, suffer from discrimination?
What about American Indians? Eskimos? Fat people? How about transsexuals?
Let’s expand the Supreme Court to several thousand justices so everyone can get their share of ”empathy”?
Oh, I forgot illegal aliens – surely they need ”empathy”……
We can expand this concept to the IRS as well – I mean, why should any minority who has suffered from lack of empathy & discrimination pay taxes?

“But what I hope is that we can avoid the political posturing and ideological brinksmanship that has bogged down this process, and Congress, in the past.”
Wow. Says the man who voted nay on the cloture motion for Justice Alito.

Truth or dare, the American people are seeing hypocrisy at work in the Obama administration. The derisive way Obama goes after his opponents is setting a very bad precedent of the presidency. “Do as I say not as I do” and “Wasn’t me” sum up his presidency so far. Opacity is being touted as transparency.
It is bizarro world when Rush calls someone on a racist statement and he is right. Imagine if another SC candidate had said that due to the richness of his experiences as a white male, he would make “better” decisions as a judge than any minority, male or female.
Meeeeep! Thank you for playing, I hope you enjoy the parting gifts.
The double standards are astounding.
Obama needs to cool his jets. I find the push for expediancy to be chilling. That is how we saddled our children and grandchildren with crushing debt. No time to think, it’s a crisis! You can read the bill later. Pass it! Pass it now!
Nope, I hope Sotomayor’s nomination is given the time and consideration that they need to determine if she is qualified (on many levels) to be the next SC justice.

Yet again, Obama drags out the straw men. What a crutch! Name names for once.

Wow this was all covered earlier in the evening. See some of you still choose to ignore it! Funny as some of you show faux outrage, you are doing exactly what the President is speaking about! “There are, of course, some in Washington who are attempting to draw old battle lines and playing the usual political games, pulling a few comments out of context to paint a distorted picture of Judge Sotomayor’s record,” Obama said.
But he also said, since it looks like many of didn’t read the post!”I hope the confirmation process will begin without delay,” Obama says in his address, “No nominee should be seated without rigorous evaluation and hearing; I expect nothing less. But what I hope is that we can avoid the political posturing and ideological brinksmanship that has bogged down this process, and Congress, in the past. Judge Sotomayor ought to be on the bench when the Supreme Court decides what cases to hear this year and I’m calling on Democrats and Republicans to be thorough, and timely in dealing with this nomination.” What part of rigorous evaluation and hearing don’t you get? Newt your other leader doesn’t want it to get there, why? He’ll be once again proven wrong and an out and out liar!

Preparation for 2012?

What’s the Rush, Obama? It’s not as if she can take the bench tomorrow, after all. Take time, do it the way you guys did Clarence Thomas. Drag her through the mud. Heck, “Bork” her. Remember that, right?

It’s past time for Obama to stop telling congress what to do . . . does he recall that we have 3 separate branches of government. Furthermore, if anybody is playing politics it’s him . . . why do you think he appointed this woman. Wake up people, before you lose it all.

There is a compelling article titled,
Pravda Mocks US Descent Into Marxism at Breakneck Speed that is posted at gatewaypundit.
It was posted on 5/29

Since she appears to hate “white” males, does that mean she hates the US Constitution which was created by “white” males? AND based on that, will she IGNORE the constitution in her rulings..?

Obama’s right. We should just skip the review all together. I mean, he wants her in, why should we question his judgment? Just like his promise to allow 5 days of public review and comment on new bills before he signed them. We already decided not to hold him to that promise, because he decided we need to rush everything through without review at all. This way we can get things done. Who cares if they are right or wrong. Progress is the most important thing here, who care about the long term consequences anyway? Our children can worry about that.

BO seems to forget, he isn’t a “KING”, He works for US, and we have every right to voice our opinions and take a very critical look at his nominee.. BO is the one who should stop playing the Political games… we have the right to disagree with his choice…. and to have his lackeys denigrate and threaten people who choose to disagree isn’t very Presidential looking….

I cannot believe this empty suit for a president. He urges Congress not to play political games, when he’s the master of it. He sends up a nominee who’s made from the same mold as he, then he tells the rest of the country to just rubber stamp her nomination? I think I have heard it all.

If Ms Sotomayor has better wisdom than a white male, then lets confirm her and move her into the Chief Justice position. She’s obviously more brilliant than everyone else there.

The more the GOP attacks, the more people they drive away. People like the moderates and independents, who they sorely need to shore up their shrinking ranks. They are playing with political dynamite by attacking this woman. They risk alienating the fastest rising voter block in the nation. Sure, it plays well to their base. But isn’t the base, by definition, already on board with the GOP? Frankly I hope they continue the attacks. It’s helping to drive them into political oblivion and obscurity. If they continue, they will be nothing more than a fringe party on the outside of the national political scene……

People like the moderates and independents, who they sorely need to shore up their shrinking ranks.
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Well then, you can’t be feeling too good about the upcoming re-election campaigns for Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Murtha and Frank, cuz they ain’t moderate or independent and some belong to their own little culture of corruption.

Jennifert7, I never heard anyone attack Condi Rice. The others have no self respect why should anyone else respect them?

If you disagree with Obama your playing Political Games

” Clarence Thomas, Michael Steel and Gonzales are lackeys. Everyone knows it even them.”
I thought they were tokens, not lackeys….

“The more the GOP attacks, the more people they drive away.”
Why do you care? You hate the GOP.

Question: Why the rush? As a democratically elected congressional body, it is the legislators responsibility to do their duty. After all, they’re there to conduct the people’s business; not the other way around. Simply because the President may think that the nominee is most qualified, doesn’t mean he’s got a free ticket to appoint Sotomayor to the 3rd most important branch of our government. Due diligence must be excercised and congress must ask Sotomayor the tough questions. The arrogance of this President to think that he can just appoint and fill the judicial seat without respecting the legislative process is simply unbelievable. Congress does not and should not be sheeped by this President as they do not answer to him. The legislative body answers to the people and states they represent. Again, what’s the rush? The judicial seat is not yet vacant. Mr. President, go fly a kite.

The arrogance of this President to think that he can just appoint and fill the judicial seat without respecting the legislative process is simply unbelievable. Mike
what evidence do you have that Obama is trying to ‘not respect’ or eliminate the legislative process for confirmation?
just curious about your ‘facts’

yeah, legitimate concerns are just games. everyone should just shut up and play “follow the leader”, like good little children. Bah! If the Senate approves this abominable choice for the Supreme Court, our liberties will take a back seat to the agenda of diversity and social justice! Those evil white founders didn’t really know what they were saying when they wrote the Constitution.. we need a Latina to interpret their true intent because she has special, diverse, cultural experiences which make her somehow better. Bah Humbug!

Oh…all this Obama-bashing…PUHLEASE! Republicans are such big crybaby sore losers. The republican party is a complete MESS now, and that is not the fault of Obama..
Bush put people in posts who fit his (Cheney’s) personal ideology, so what gives?
The debt? All Bush’s fault, sorry, nice try republicans, not Obamas…the solution? What would republicans do different? Give more money to the “poor” rich victims of the economy and slave the rest of us, through higher taxes, less rights, less assistance in any way shape or form, down with education, down with any form of advancement. Leading us to the true less-freedom country.
Obama tries to fix the mess that Bush created, and they cry “socialism!”, Obama tries to make things equal under the law and they cry “socialism!” AND “RACISM” AND “PERSECUTION”.

Okay don’t rush. Sonia Sotomayor will still be the next member of the Supreme Court. Just as the right could not stop Barack Obama from becoming the President of the United States, they will likewise not be able to stop Ms. Sotomayor from taking her place on the bench and in history. Take your time.

Poor Obama. I’m sure he’s thinking, “This isn’t how things worked in Chicago.” Throughout his life he has always gotten his way with no worry of dissent from the many sycophants around him. Now he looks like the petulant child that he is, whining when he doesn’t immediately get his way. A true indication of a leader. NOT.

We need to let the “Wise Latina Woman” present her wisdom and quit letting the President or Democrats or Republicans do the job for her. Let’s watch and learn for ourselves.
Signed,
Wise Latina

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Please! Clarence Thomas was questioned on charges he sexually harassed a co-worker just as Bill O’Riley did. HE was the one who brought race into it to get himself off the hook.

Those that thought Clinton was slick, are now seeing a president that uses his power to bash anybody that doesn’t agree with him including private citizens. Obama opposed and fought hard against the appointment of the last supreme court appointment. So was he playing politics? I always thought that Clinton was the most arrogant president, but Obama has him beaten by a mile because he won’t even allow dissenters a voice. Why does the process to appoint any candidate need to quick? Has anybody noticed that everything about Obama needs to be quick including passing bills that nobody has read.

I guess it’s only OK to mplay politics if you’re a democrat. What a hipocrite.

Oh give me a break…and the democrats weren’t political with any of George Bush’s court nominees. Shumer was viscous and Obama wanted to filibuster Roberts. When will American’s WAKE UP to the tyranny that is happening right under your eyes…..or is American Idol or baseball more important than your freedoms? Remember the story about the frogs in the boiling water and what happened to them…

Give me a break! All you people do is rag on President Obama ALL the time about EVERYTHING non-stop.

Should we ignore a racist statement when it was uttered by a Supreme Court nominee? Obama said she didnt word it correctly. Should we take her ability to word things correctly into consideration for someone who will “word things” for a living?

It doesn’t matter what President Obama says there are people here who will smear him for it. Same people almost everyday, with the same personal agenda to smear the president.
It reminds me of the story of the little boy who cried ‘wolf!’ over and over again until people just didn’t listen anymore.

Re: “SHE was the one that made the ethnic emphasis in a speech and shown bias in her rulings.”
She hasn’t shown any bias in her rulings. She rules based on the law. You just don’t like the law.

badger:”Sotomayor is a member of La Raza, a radical hispanic activist group getting federal tax dollar funding from the U.S. La Raza translates to “The Race”
Their ideology is “Everything for The Race, NOTHING for the rest.”
What nonsense. The National Council of La Raza has never used, and publicly and unequivocally has rejected the motto “Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.” Please cite your baseless slander.

The conservatives believe the courts belong to them? I hope you don’t feel this way Jake?

This guy can’t do anything right. I never thought I’d see the day when this great country would fall for an idiot like Obama. God help us.

of.. Painting Distorted Picture..
“Surely all art is a lie,”

Distorted pictures, I would say the pictures can not be more clear….
Norman Thomas Quote:
“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”
Sotomayor quoted Thomas on her year book: ( a guy that ran 5 consc years for P of Socialist Party ) ” I am not a champion of lost causes, but causes not yet won ” I would say she got a good shot at her dreams now. She will have an very active agenda.
She will be pushing a active liberal agenda just like Obama is. Bye Bye, private industry, Wall street and free America. Just get used to it folks. Obama is painting a gruesome distorted picture just yesterday talking about GM, to the applaud of liberal slobbering bozos. He is in charge of GM and he wanst small cheap car for all americans periord! SEE? Liberal fast toward socialism agenda.