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

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (55268)	6/2/2009 9:15:11 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

"Can you imagine Bush appointing a SCJ who was a member of the KKK?" Can you imagine him appointing a member of the NAACP? National Council of La Raza the Latino KKK? by Yuliana Gomez \| 06.01.2009 \| 6:00pm \| Our what-the-heck-are-they-thinking news of the day: Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor continues to be attacked by the conservative right, this time by former Colorado Representative and one-time presidential nominee Tom Tancredo. On Rick Sanchez’s CNN show last week, Tancredo attacked Judge Sotomayor for a snippet of a quote from a 2001 lecture given at a conference at UC Berkeley, calling the judge a racist and criticizing her association with the NCLR, which he likened to “a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses.” Um…maybe it’s just us, but comparing one of the oldest Hispanic civil rights organizations in the country, which advocates and defends the rights of Latinos (and many other marginalized groups) across hundreds of community affiliates throughout the United States, to a white-supremacist organization with hundreds of years of racist history and which has been linked to lynchings, violence, voter registration obstruction, enforcement of Jim Crow laws, among other deplorable acts, seems a little, oh, we don’t know, like a bit of a stretch? latina.com Or speaking to them? Transcript Obama Addresses the National Council of La Raza As Prepared for Delivery Tuesday, July 15, 2008; 10:49 AM SEN. BARACK OBAMA, D-ILL.: I've got to tell you, being here with all of you today feels a little like coming home. Because while I stand here as a candidate for President of the United States, I will never forget that the most important experience in my life came when I was doing what you do each day, working on the ground in our communities to bring about change. washingtonpost.com washingtonpost.com Even a broken clock is still right twice a day; keep trying.