White House Hedging On Sotomayor's Racist Comments

Clearly, the White House thinks it could sustain political damage from Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor. First, let's set the stage. Sotomayor said the following:

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge] than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”

Obviously, this woman is bringing a serious axe-grinding to the highest court in the land, and is planning to make decisions based on race and gender rather than the law. What was the White House's initial response to the complaints? Eh, what she said was common sense:

The GOP has jumped all over this issue (as they should), and the heat is rising on Obama. Gateway Pundit has this update:

It looks like their internal polling must have come in this afternoon...
Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick says she chose her racist words poorly back in her 2001 speech.
The AP reported this on the controversial pick:

The White House says Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor acknowledges she made a poor word choice in a 2001 speech in which she said that a Latina judge would often reach a better conclusion than a white male judge who hasn't lived the same life.

That's according to presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs. He says he has not talked directly to Sotomayor about it but has spoken to people who have.

Personally, I think this is only one of the two worst aspects about her. The other is that she believes it is the job of judges to write law from the bench. Both are blatantly unconstitutional, and will spell major, major problems for Americans down the road.

Anyway, once again Obama needs a second attempt to get the PR spin on a controversial nomination right. Of course, if he truly wanted to get this right, he never would have nominated a far-Left radical like Sotomayor, but that's kind of a given since Obama is a far-Left radical himself, and bent on re-making America into a socialist nation.

Nevertheless, Obama is still standing behind his pick and calling on Congress to let her slide by:

“What I hope is that we can avoid the political posturing and ideological brinksmanship that has bogged down this process, and Congress, in the past.”

The GOP appears to be rolling over for him on this, so it's not entirely clear why he felt the need to make this suggestion, but it's kind of a joke for this reason:

This from the “first President in U.S. history to have voted to filibuster a Supreme Court nominee.” Perhaps Obama learned about “political posturing and ideological brinksmanship” from Joe Biden who, as recently as last October, proclaimed how proud he was to have “led the fight against Judge Bork” and effectively invent the political “Borking” of a Supreme Court nominee.

Doublethink? Oh yes, undoubtedly. Will he get away with it? That's up to you. If nothing else, he's providing political cover for some certain Senators who might be getting a lot of heat from constituents. They can now say, 'well, President Obama said she didn't really mean it', and that might be enough to let them still vote her through the process. Sad but true...that's how politics works.

Still, you might consider calling your Senators and giving them an earful on Sotomayor's nomination. I dunno that it'll make a difference, but Senators are big chickens, anyway, so you never know.

More important is to understand the situation (which you do now) and prepare yourself to make the case against this sort of Leftism when it comes up in casual conversations. It's the grass roots where America is the strongest and where Obama and his radical Leftist agenda will ultimately fail, and that means you and I need to be on top of things.

There's my two cents.