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To: Dale Baker who wrote (116201)	7/22/2009 6:30:06 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541869

One could actually say it dates back to the founding fathers. I don't view these old white guys as an evil plague upon the planet the way some appear to. As I think about the issue more, it's not that I can't appreciate the diversity elements of selecting a Supreme Court candidate, I can. If during the course of open selections, a Hispanic women of high caliber rose to the top of the selection list, great, more power to her! Sotomayer is not that person, far from it. She's an average jurist who has been socially promoted to jobs in order to make her marginally eligible to be selected for the Supreme Court, specifically to pander to a certain group of voters for political purposes. And so we further poison the court with political appointees, instead of intellectually deep jurists. The problem I really have is virtually no one in the Team Obama camp or Democratic party ever considered a white man eligible for the position. From the moment the opening was announced, it was which person of color should be selected. Which racial identity best fit etc.. That is called racism, some refer to it as reverse-racism - either way it's simply wrong. Two wrongs do not make a right. Bush and company at least had the integrity to consider everyone for the post. Obama and the PC crowd of hard core leftists never entertained the thought a white man being eligible for the position. So, we could have one of the greatest jurists of all time available for the court, and he's basically ineligible for the position, specifically because of his race. That's really sad, and is not in keeping with the spirit or values Martin Luther King challenged America to reach.