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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 11:45 PM
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Once again, a female nominee is the target of thinly veiled sexism.
All this Rethug concern that she -- a brilliant, highly experienced Appeals Court judge -- will make judgments based on her "feelings" and "preferences" rather than according to law and logic is classic sexism.

So are the claims that she "bullies" on the bench. What would be considered forthright and no-nonsense on the part of a male judge is considered to be bullying on the part of a woman.

The more things change . . . .
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Nikki Stone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 11:48 PM
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1. The problem is that Obama said he was looking for "empathy" and the RW ran with it
I'm not giving Obama a hard time here. I know what he means by empathy, but the right wing, who have a chronic lack of it, think that empathy is a "girl disease." We just need to remind these slugs that Sotomayor has degrees from Harvard and Princeton. It takes more than feelings to get through those Ivy League institutions if you're not legacy (like Bush).
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 11:58 PM
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5. He made her into a human being
Republicans beating up on her because she empathizes with real people is going to backfire on them. People consistently say they want leaders who understand them.

And when they say that a woman who has been judge a ton of years is not qualified or not smart, if that worries you, it does not worry me.
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sutz12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 11:49 PM
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2. It's not that thinly veiled....
:evilgrin:
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 11:53 PM
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3. Let them make jack asses out of themselves. She's in.
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-26-09 11:57 PM
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4. No, it's a distraction from the Bush/Obama secret prison camps.
In Arkansas, I think... :evilgrin:
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 12:03 AM
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6. That's what I've learned from DUers at any rate.
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ljm2002 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 12:07 AM
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7. I have to say...
...I'm laughing my ass off at these jerks who are trying to say "she's not very smart" -- right, because, you know, anyone can graduate summa cum laude from Princeton, and be an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and serve on the Circuit Court -- it ain't no thang...

Idiots.

They truly are laughable.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 01:47 AM
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8. thttttttt
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-27-09 04:05 AM
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9. They use what they've got. And they clearly don't have much to go on
Pretty pathetic lot they are.
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