Sotomayor

The flap over Obama's nominee is unfortunately being hijacked by the comment she made at Berkley regarding her superiority as a "Latina Woman". This is unfortunate since there are several key indicators of her tendency to use race and social agenda in her opinions.

The case of the Connecticut Fireman is a good example. In her (and 2 other judges) finding the test was invalid because none of the African American applicants passed it. Well, that is racist! There are two questions that should have influenced their opinion. The first is "Were there questions on the test that were not relevant to the promotion?" If this was the case they could have instructed the City to re-structure the questions and submit the new test to the Judges and then move on with a re-test. The second question is whether or not in their opinion the test was unconstitutional because the African Americans were not afforded the same level of public education as the Caucasian and Hispanic candidates. If this was their reasoning then they would have invalidate all testing for civil service positions. Let's see what the Supremes do with this later this year.

The other quote by Sotomayor that the Appellate Court sets policy is absolutely unconstitutional and if that is her position, that alone should disqualify her.

As for her comment about Latina women being superior, you can call that misguided pride, political posturing or plain old stupidity, but don't go down the Racist route. Here in our local School District we had two female candidates who stated in their campaign that a Woman could make better decisions than the Men. That kind of talk is just ignorant and should be ignored.

Sotomayer will eventually get appointed and anyone who is surprised about Obama nominating a Socialist Activist with racial leanings has not been paying attention to his past and his first 140 days.