Sotomayor Versus the White Men

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Can't agree more with the last 2-comments, you've got it right!

Does it matter, Honestly of FL 7:43PM July 21, 2009

Your a Great American. aura of Ca likes to boast and distort like all Liberals.She seems to annoy lots of people with her looney left wing comments. She should watch FOX news or listen to Rush and maybe she can be helped to see the light.

Stanley Stuart feingold of NY 1:58AM July 21, 2009

Finally it makes more sense(?) now thanks Mr. Feingold for smoking out that atheist pistol in Ca.Kept reading these looney posts about Catholic conspiracies,heroin trafficing etc.I thought u.s.news had a moderator,guess not.Reminded me of that nut job LaRouche claiming Queen Elizabeth II was in a turf war with asian triads or some such.Oh well, "the children will play", as Reagan used to say.

keifer of NH 2:49AM July 20, 2009

SSf seems not to know that Nazis are fascists who don't want anyone to be different from themselves. The fascist symbol is the bundled batch of handles of war-axes. They're fastened together--all the same. He misuses and abuses this comment site, preaching sermons, hoping to expose participants to nobody's input but his own. I work to end religious tax exemption. I'm not alone. Freedom From Religion Foundation in Madison, WI and Atheists United in Hollywood, and Atheist Alliance International are working to make Congress end unconstitutional tax subsidy of religion. Patriotic citizens feel a sense of duty to pay for public agencies like fire and police departments, public education, highways, costs of administration, etc. Amorally, members of tax-exempt churches consume these public services and EXPECT other citizens to pay the costs. I make comments on behalf of other taxpayers who for some reason are not here protesting illegal religious tax favors. Some are busy at work, some are ill. Some may be too young to realize how the first real estate taxes they paid are higher because churches are removed from tax bases. How many more "stifle" demands can we expect from SSF?

auradawnveirs of CA 4:31PM July 19, 2009

I truly stand by my comment and hope it pisses you off.Really have no respect for lala land liberals from Ca! Especially your Feminazi type ..

Stanley Stuart feingold of NY 5:05PM July 17, 2009

These comment sites reach people around the world. Non-white terrorists get excited when they read comments that say "whites are the brains of the world and racially superior to all." We have soldiers in places where whites are the minority. A heedless, racist remark recorded here might lead to their being crippled or killed. I thought comments were screened, so why are there so many sexist, racist, rude remarks, interspersed with inescapable sermons? People who make those statements have free speech, but it's unlikely they can free themselves of flaws that lead to bad manners like those exposed here.

auradawnveirs of CA 10:25PM July 16, 2009

how come most of them went to party in HS and get pregnant and then drop out and rather be on child support and federal aid money that would make a burden in taxpayer money add more deficit to our nationa budget. Why don't they be smart get stay in HS and finish college to get real living job instead of stay on welfare all their life. If u in Santa Ana u see fat mexican walking around the street with a bunch of kids, and their kids is kinda anoying since their mom is not so much of educated person and so she doesn't teach her kid any manner leasons at the hospital too if u visit any hospital in OC, most mexican women in OC would spread their leg for anyone who would did them in, to make baby to get more time to stay in the USA long enought to become US citizen so she could put herself Welfare program make a bunch of babies like rabit and don't have to work for the rest of her life, this is how Mexican lady better than most white man at in this field only, I don't see alot of hard working mexican lady now aday only got fat, get baby, and get welfare the great Latina tactican

MyNickWasBan of CA 9:01PM July 16, 2009

so they haven't given us anything, Norden.

But, just for fun, I'll engage you.

Sotomayor went to Princeton for undergrad where (my numbers may be old and therefore slightly off) acceptance for applicants fluctuates between 9 and 13%. However, of those applicants that are legacies, the acceptance rate is 40%. The Federal Dept of Educ has determined that legacies tend to be significantly less-qualified. So, whose really benefiting from preferential treatment?

Meryl of CA 7:57PM July 16, 2009

After watching this Latina babe being questioned and struggle with the evasive answers that she has been coached, it is obvious to me that she would not be where she is today if she were a white male. She would have been deemed unqualified long ago. So the quota system has given us this person who will slide through the nomintion process because it is the politically correct thing to do. Not the RIGHT thing, but...

Norden of MT 4:45PM July 16, 2009

The purpose of valid and reliable tests and trials is to measure or assess qualifications or abilities of competitors or aspirants. If we do not accept that individuals vary in their physical and mental abilities, and reject any disparate results as racist, sexist, etc., then all competitive testing and trials are useless. If racial and ethnically proportionate results are to become the universally accepted norm, regardless of differences in physical and mental abilities, then the composition of baseball, football, basketball, hockey, and other teams will have to change drastically. Determining racial and ethnic proportionality (through census or other means) is a Pandora's Box that will exacerbate and fuel prejudice. President Obama's mother was white. Are his daughters entitled, thereby, to a 25 percent preference or advantage over non-mixed competitors or aspirants? As racial and ethnic mixing become more widespread in our country, will we be forced to resort to DNA profiling to determine the appropriate percentage of advantage or preference to be assigned to competitors? We are all humans with different gifts and abilities and our differences do not make us more or less, better or worse. We must remain alert to those who would perpetuate artificial prejudices in order to divide and exploit us for their own selfish reasons or purposes.

Joe Ferri of CO 2:28PM July 16, 2009

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Bonnie Erbe is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report and hosts PBS's weekly news analysis program, To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe. She also writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column for Scripps Howard News Service.

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