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Sarah Palin, version 2009: Going rogue, getting even (San Francisco Chronicle)
Debra Saunders writes a review of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue, “She’s folksy and quotable. She has delivered a book that will thrill a base that loves to shout, “They done her wrong.”
Racism, ethnicism, and sexism are wrong and un-American (Updated)
I stand by what I’ve written, Sonia Sotomayor is not qualified to sit on the Supreme Court or on the Appeals Court, where she is now employed. It is pathetic to see the White House say she is quoted out of context when her words were part of her prepared remarks, spoken, then used in subsequent journal articles under her name. Out of context? And now Lanny Davis says her comments are “being maliciously misused.” Okay, pointing out that someone is racist may be, in Al Gore’s wording, ‘an inconvenient truth’, but how can pointing out that by her own words she is a racist be malicious? Are we to excuse her racism because it might embarrass her?!
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Sonia Sotomayor is not qualified to sit on the Supreme Court as she is a self-proclaimed discriminator based on race, ethnicity, and sex. She is well-documented claiming that as a “Latina woman” she makes better conclusions (as a judge) than does a white male. No politically correct gymnastics or affirmative action guilt trip can erase the fact that Ms. Sotomayor clearly states that she finds it acceptable to use racism, ethnicism, and sexism in her decision-making.
Racism, ethnicism, and sexism is not relative and not okay from some people and not for others. A simple test, are all of the following acceptable? If any of the following are not acceptable, then I suggest that none are.
- As a Latina woman I would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male.
- As a Latina woman I would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a black male.
- As a white male I would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a black male.
- As a black male I would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male.
- As a white male I would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white female.
- As a white male I would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Asian male.
- As a European female I would more often than not reach a better conclusion than an African female.
- As a Catholic female I would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Jewish female.
In my opinion, none of these are acceptable – race, ethnicity, and sex have no place in deciding who makes better decisions. This is not American and does not reflect the values that most of us expect of ourselves and our fellow citizens. Not only does Sonia Sotomayer disqualify herself from the Supreme Court, but also from her current seat on the Appeals Court. She should resign or be impeached.
Obama Seeks to Spread the Wealth à la Karl Marx
Several weeks ago Barack Obama smoothly explained to “Joe the Plumber” that he wanted to spread Joe’s wealth around (See Barack Obama Meets “Joe the Plumber”). He advocated taking the wealth of successful Americans and giving it to others as the government saw fit. Barack Obama introduced a heretofor unseen side of his ideology — Marxism.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need – Karl Marx, 1875.
When asked on Good Morning America (October 24, around 2 minutes), Barack Obama said he did not regret his ‘spread the wealth’ comment. Why should he? His socialist and Marxist past and ideology is coming into sharp focus and out-of-the-closet so-to-speak (See, for example, my article, Obama is Hiding a Radical Past). Past complaints about Obama not having any discernable ideology can now be firmly laid to rest.
In a 2001 public radio interview (see below the fold), Obama clearly faulted the Supreme Court for not reinterpreting the U.S. Constitution to force redistribution of wealth and faulted the civil rights movement for not doing more “political and community organizing and activities on the ground.…to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change.”
Obama aligned himself with a socialist party in 1996 and has longstanding ties to Marxists (e.g., Bill Ayers, Mike Klonsky) who have a record of attacking the United States.
In about one week the American public will have a choice of voting for Barack Obama, a man with personal and professional ties to people espousing Marxist and socialist ideologies, or John McCain, an American patriot who has fought Marxism.