Buchanan declares Sotomayor a “militant liberal Latina,” Matthews and Robinson push back

Maddow slams “Uncle Pat” Buchanan for “stoking… white people’s racial animus” on Sotomayor

Judge Sotomayor’s comment that a “wise Latina” judge would probably make better decisions than a white male colleague, has been the rallying cry for Republicans during the last three days of her confirmation hearings. The toxicity which the Republican members of the judiciary committee are injecting into the judge’s “innocent” statement of 2001, while speaking to a largely Latino audience, is laughable.

Judge Sotomayor has made it clear that her remarks were a “rhetorical flourish that fell flat,” and that she was merely trying to inspire her audience of women and Hispanic students — and that diverse experiences would enrich the legal profession.

Apparently that has not convinced the senate sons of yester WHITE LYNCHERS, who have had a stranglehold on what is law and what is not, since the inception of America.

America is rapidly become diverse and they are afraid, very afraid of being washed away from absolute power. That’s the problem in a nutshell! The FEAR of a non-snow white America, or as Osama Bin O’Reilly put it: “The liberals are out to demolish the WHITE CHRISTIAN MALE POWER STRUCTURE.”

What they fail to mention is that these liberals are mostly white too — bolstered by “oppressed minorities.”

Well, the train has left the station, speeding, and doesn’t matter how loud these senate and radio bigots howl — no one will STOP IT!

In an opinion piece, Eugene Robinson writes: ‘Being white and male is seen instead as a neutral condition, the natural order of things. Any “identity” — black, brown, female, gay, whatever — has to be judged against this supposedly “objective” standard.’ “Thus it is irrelevant if Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. talks about the impact of his background as the son of Italian immigrants on his rulings — as he did at his confirmation hearings — but unforgivable for Sotomayor to mention that her Puerto Rican family history might be relevant to her work. Thus it is possible for Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to say with a straight face that heritage and experience can have no bearing on a judge’s work, as he posited in his opening remarks yesterday, apparently believing that the white male justices he has voted to confirm were somehow devoid of heritage and bereft of experience.”

“….if the Republican Party is going to be competitive, it can’t be seen as the party of white male grievance — especially in what is almost certainly a lost cause. Democrats, after all, have the votes to confirm Sotomayor.” [ READ MORE ]

G.O.P Hung Up on “Wise Latina”

Sonia Keeps Her Cool

RACIST ‘White Nationalist’ Pat Buchanan on Sotomayor: “A Militant LATINA”

Southern Comfort

Notes: UNCLE-TOM Miguel Estrada’s nomination was rejected (filibustered) by Senate Democrats in 2003. They refused to allow another Uncle-Tom, like Clarence Thomas prowling the insides of highest court in the land.

References:

1. Senator Jeff Session’s History of RACISM — In 1986, Sessions’ nomination as a U.S. district court judge was rejected following allegations that Sessions had a history of making racially charged comments.

2. Post-Sotomayor Nominations Are at Stake in Hearings — By forcing Judge Sotomayor to retreat from Mr. Obama’s desire for justices with “empathy,” Republicans have effectively set a new standard that future nominees will be pressed to meet. The Republicans hope their aggressive questioning of Judge Sotomayor on race discrimination, gun control and the death penalty will make it harder for Mr. Obama to choose a more outspoken liberal in the future.

From MAUREEN DOWD

White Man’s Last Stand: Republican Men AFRAID OF EXTINCTION Are Out To Trip A Latino Judge — A gaggle of Republican men afraid of extinction couldn’t root out any sign that Sonia Sotomayor has emotions that color her views on the law.

•    ON SENATE HEARINGS: President Obama wants Sotomayor, naturally, to bring a fresh perspective to the court. It was a disgrace that W. appointed two white men to a court stocked with white men. And Sotomayor made it clear that she provides some spicy seasoning to a bench when she said in a speech: “I simply do not know exactly what the difference will be in my judging, but I accept there will be some based on gender and my Latina heritage.”

•    ON SARAH PALIN: Sarah Palin is the definition of irrational, a volatile and scattered country-music queen without the music. Her Republican fans defend her lack of application and intellect, happy to settle for her emotional electricity.

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The “Killa From Wasilla” came to the debate armed to the teeth with Republican talking points. She wasn’t afraid, she had the confidence — that of a robot programmed to “Vomit Policy.”

“Sarah The Barracuda” was pesky, scripted, loud, shrill and incoherent, as she rattled whatever her coaches had crammed into her head, with abandon.

For the entire ninety minutes she shuffled her “cheat sheets,” as if she were taking an “Open Book-Open Notes” Exam or participating in a Spelling Bee contest. She scraped and fought hard, spewing “Gibberish” by the bucket.

Ms. Palin exhibited little spontaneity and looked thoroughly rehearsed — sometimes avoided answering questions directly, instead slid into irrelevant sound-bites about her tenure as mayor of “tiny-town” Wasilla, Alaska.

On foreign policy, Palin stalled — giving generic non-specific answers, and when she resorted to her juvenile chants — “Maverick!,” “We are mavericks!,” “We are a maverick team!,” Biden promptly shot her down: “McCain wasn’t a maverick on ‘the things that matter to people’s lives,‘ citing issues such as health care, education and the war.” “He’s not been a maverick on virtually anything that genuinely affects the things that people really talk about around their kitchen table,” Biden said.

The debate format was not confrontational, and Joe Biden avoided engaging her, for fear of being labeled sexist. Had he forced her to deviate from her script, the results would have been disastrous. She would have forgotten her lines and gone off on some of her moronic, meaningless rambles.

CNN’s political analyst Bill Schneider was critical: “Palin’s answers do not lack confidence, they lack coherence.”

Newsweek’s Harold Fineman: “Palin was like ‘A Wolverine’ Attacking The Pant Leg Of
A Passerby.”

Start of the Vice Presidential Debate

Vice Presidential Debate: “Maverick He Is Not”

Joe Biden — We will end this war

CNN – Post Debate Analysis

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Joe Biden on the other hand was remarkably restrained, awash with policy and his vast knowledge and experience clearly showed. He offered much more detail on a range of topics, from national security to domestic issues, and relentlessly lumped McCain with Bush.

While Sarah acted like a “frisky” freshman debater, Joe was polished and presidential in his delivery.

Per Bob Shrum, Palin did not fall down on the stage — she survived.

Her performance was much better than I expected, because of one and only one reason — the debate format allowed her to stick to her rehearsed script. There were barely any follow-ups by the moderator, unlike in the first Obama-McCain debate, when vigorous follow-ups revealed the stark differences, weaknesses and strengths of the two candidates.

In this debate, Palin was allowed to verbally diarrhea “crammed policy,” like an express train without brakes, spewing useless garbage, winking and giving a “shout-out” to some high school in Alaska!

Give me a break! How stupid does one have to be not to read through this nonsense?

She is a total embarrassment — an affront to intellectualism, a trait I insist must be part of the package of a serious contender for the presidency of this great land.

“Hockey Moms” stay home and manage their families, they do not run for an office where they might be required to manage the largest stockpile of nuclear and biological weapons on earth.

My assessment is that Sarah Palin is not ready. She still knows nothing. Go Home Sarah!

“This is going to help stop the bleeding,” said Todd Harris, a Republican consultant who worked for Mr. McCain in his first presidential campaign. “But this alone won’t change the trend line, particularly in some of the battleground states.”

Partisan right-wing THUGS had other ideas:

“Sarah Palin was sensational tonight,” roared White Nationalist Bigot Pat Buchanan, in a post-debate comment on the MSNBC cable network. “She regained that magic she had at the convention.”

Joining the maniacal squealing, were the SYPHILITIC NATIVIST NAZIS at Fox News. Festooned around their racist brains is the falsehood that Sarah Palin won the debate hands down.

Sarah’s “Spelling-Bee Performance” must have injected a shot of liquid cannabis into their soiled veins.

Morons!

Well, ALL post-debate polls indicate that Biden thrashed her decisively, while holding back his fire considerably.

But then what’s to be expected of the “FIX” News Channel?

When he’s not standing in a supermarket cheese aisle holding forth unsteadily on the definition of the Iraq surge or at a German beer garden outside Columbus (while U.S. Sen. Barack Obama spoke to 200,000 in Berlin), U.S. Sen. John McCain has his eyes on what he sees as the holy grail that will clinch his victory come November 4: offshore drilling, a.k.a. The Big Lie….Melissa Merz –> [MORE >>]

McCain’s Ad — “Painful”

The Obama Team Responds:

Obama’s first Olympic Ad – “Hands”

Obama needs to fight back harder

The so-called low information voter is not capable of assimilating and analyzing “Professorial Presentation,”……they are called low information for a reason: They couldn’t excel in school! They get bored easily, and do little or no research, and therefore tend to gravitate to “things raw, hard-hitting and STUPID,“…..talk radio hearsay, clandestine smears and utter nonsense. Anyone who relies on unscrupulous shysters like Limbaugh or Hannity for information is STUPID….thoroughly well!

John McCain, a Republican is aware of this “Voter Deficiency.” — and will milk it as effectively as every ReTHUGlican presidential candidate has done over the last 40 years.

One of the Democratic Party’s leading electoral street fighters, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, was right when he said that Barack Obama should respond to John McCain’s personal attacks with an equally personal slap.

McCain’s quarter century congressional/senatorial career is littered with “plump fodder” ripe for plucking:

1. Vote For John McCain and Put A Thief In The White House!

Obama is running a campaign based on hope and a positive future. I don’t how he should counter McCain without obscuring his primary message — but I believe the only way to defeat a snake which is spewing deadly venom is to beat it on the head — with a BILLY CLUB!

….More stuff here: Dumb And McDumber

2. John McCain – A temperamental “political chameleon” who dumped crippled first-wife for Cindy and her “Beer Inheritance.” — “Family Values” ReTHUGlican — John McCain is a self-centered womanizer who abandoned his crippled first-wife for his present wife Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons…..Read More Here

3. Thinking about voting for McCain? Read this book (below). McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory — Just because he flew a couple of missions in Vietnam (another illegal war) — then got shot down, and had his NUTS squeezed and his arms broken, is hardly sufficient reason for America to elect another idiot to mess up things even more!!

Editorial Reviews | Book Description: Cliff Schecter’s hard-hitting profile explores the gap between the public record of Senator John McCain and his media image. Drawing on a range of sources and adding his unique perspective and humor, Schecter guides the reader though McCain’s long history of expedient flip-flops–especially on his signature issues of national security and campaign finance reform.

Far from a straight-talking maverick, McCain emerges as a temperamental political chameleon who will do or say virtually anything to become president of the United States. On issue after issue–including the invasion and occupation of Iraq, torture, abortion, and gay rights–The Real McCain reveals a politician who started as a Goldwater Republican, experienced a brief period after sanity after his loss to George W. Bush in 2000, and began pandering to the very groups he challenged after deciding to run again in 2008.

From the Back Cover: Cliff Schecter provides us with some real “straight talk” about John McCain. Everyone who wants to know why John McCain won’t give us health care but will keep us fighting endless wars and sell our personal freedoms to far-right theocrats should read this book.

Paul Hackett
Major, USMCR

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McCain The “Political Chameleon” Flip-Flops!

McSAME The ReTHUGlican Is a Bigger Liar Than His ‘Trusted Counselor’ George McDUMB

| More McCain “Straight Talk” Flip-Flops @ therealmccain.com |

4. Perhaps this video by a fellow snake, “White-Nationalist” THUG Pat Buchanan, indicts McCain best. If I were Obama, I would use this video over and over:

A Fellow Snake, “White-Nationalist” THUG Pat Buchanan Skewers McCain

She told a gathering of supporters last week that she’s looking for a “strategy” for her delegates to have their voices heard and “respected” at the Democratic National Convention — and did not rule out the possibility of having her name placed into nomination at the convention alongside Sen. Barack Obama’s.

Time Magazine reports that while in public Clinton is doing everything she’s been asked to help Obama, behind the scenes she secretely wishes Obama should lose.

No matter how much they Tip-Toe around the issue, I strongly believe that their strategy (Clinton & Clinton) is to weaken Obama even further, in anticipation of running for office in 2012….[ MORE >> ]

Hillary is torn between two forces – one, is the “private wish” that McCain beats Obama this fall, and the other is “what-if Obama wins“….”how will we look if we don’t throw our ‘fake‘ support behind him?”

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Bill Clinton on the other hand seems to be very bitter that he was labeled a racist during the Democratic primary. Interviewed by ABC News in Monrovia, Liberia while on his world AIDS tour with his foundation, Mr. Clinton talked a bit about the role he played in the failed presidential bid of his wife. And he still seemed to be smoldering about his portrayal by the media and others….as a BIGOT.

“But I am not a racist,” he said. “I’ve never made a racist comment and I never attacked him (Obama) personally.” Asked if he thought Obama was ready to be president, Bill gave some lame excuse that ‘nobody is ever ready’ and that the Constitution sets out qualifications for president.

Shut Up Bill!

What a selfish egomaniacal duo! Here are some illustrative comments.

I don’t place you in the same category as the despicable right-wing THUGS in the Republican party, but you did exhibit behavior that millions of black people construed as racism — and that’s the one big reason which precipitated your wife’s defeat. Had you behaved yourself in South Carolina, I believe we might be looking at a power-packed Clinton-Obama ticket.

Apologize and move on….you will be forgiven!

We have a much more venomous snake to beat down — The ReTHUGlican Hate-Machine, starring: John “Drill My Wife” McCain.

   THE REPUBLICAN CRIMINAL HATE-MACHINE — NOW HEADED BY JOHN MCCAIN
   [Clockwise: Sean Hannity, James Dobson, Rush Limbaugh, Anne Coulter,
   Glenn Beck, Greta Van Susteren]

   A Fellow Snake, ‘White-Nationalist’ THUG Pat Buchanan Skewers McCain
   

SPECIAL REFERENCES: evilgopbastards.com | Hawking Racism — Pat Buchanan’s latest book is a White Nationalist Screed

Too often, GOP insiders grumble, McCain’s strategy seems simply reactive. On Sunday, Obama announced he’d be meeting with his economic advisers on Monday. On Monday morning, the McCain campaign announced a conference call with his economic advisers.

   Courtesy: seedsofdoubt.com

McCain’s bitterness, frustration and near-obsession with Obama are on plain display: He even gave some free advertising to his opponent’s book the other day, complaining about the Illinois Democrat’s headline-grabbing trip.

“We rejected the audacity of hopelessness, and we were right,” the Arizona Republican said Friday, playing off the title of Obama’s book “The Audacity of Hope.” …[ MORE >> ]

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The BUMBLING senator from Arizona is feeling the heat, and has resorted to what amounts to hurling insults via un-coordinated TV ads and stupid “I am more patriotic” statements in Town Hall meetings. For example, the one below in which he accuses obama of not visiting the troops in Germany — using footage of Obama with the troops in Kuwait!!:

Obama — We are one America

Perhaps the most stupid of McCain’s current Ads — is the one in which, a narrator ominously intones that gas prices have gone to “$4, $5 [with] no end in sight, because some in Washington are still saying no to drilling in America. No to independence from foreign oil.” Then the announcer asks, “Who can you blame for rising prices at the pump?” A crowd chants, “Obama, Obama,” and Obama’s face appears.

McCain TV Ad — “Pump”

Typical Republican poison — that will escalate as these THUGS become more desperate, as the campaign finale approaches.

The notion that Obama is singlehandedly responsible for rising gasoline prices is ludicrous.

The war in Iraq and Afghanistan, increasing demand from emerging powers like China and India, “big-Oil-business” manipulations by the current and previous Republican administrations, and the extravagance and greed of Americans — are responsible for the current crisis.

Not Obama, Mr. McSAME!!!

It is my opinion that the only reasons why McCain has survived this far are:

1. The damage Hillary Clinton inflicted on Obama during their brutal primary contest

2. A good chunk of America is still fearful of a black man ruling them, even if he is 50% white and 50% black. As high-octane as Obama is — if he were 100% pure white, McCain would have been dead-meat as early as the first day he became the presumptive nominee of the ReTHUGlican party.

The problem of racism in this election (conveniently camouflaged as “cultural differences” by right-wing pundits like Pat Buchanan – a racist “Nazi-Idealogued” white nationalist or the toe-sucking pervert, Fox analyst Dick Morris) looms large over this election — and might just tilt the election in favor of “Dead-Man-Walking” — John McBOMB McCain.

Meanwhile, the criminal cabal of George Bush and Dick Cheney have their guns “fully loaded” in support of John McCain — A fusillade of “500 LB” bombs aimed squarely at Obama.

We will see.