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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (55149)	6/1/2009 6:48:06 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

"Sotomayor could kill her own chance if she acts intemperate in her testimony." You mean she can't shoot a few Senators?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (55149)	6/1/2009 6:58:28 PM
From: nigel bates	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

>>I also hope she apologizes for her UNWISE remark about a "wise latina woman" ...<< That would be politic, even if it has been reported without full context.. Did you read the speech that included the remark ? It also included this : "...I am reminded each day that I render decisions that affect people concretely and that I owe them constant and complete vigilance in checking my assumptions, presumptions and perspectives and ensuring that to the extent that my limited abilities and capabilities permit me, that I reevaluate them and change as circumstances and cases before me requires. I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate..."