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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/08/sotomayor-breaks-ankle-on-her-way-to-capitol-hill/>>>
>>>You can bet the late night comics are going to have a field day with this.
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>>I think it's brilliant - she a woman - she's Hispanic - and now she's *handicapped* - er - physically challenged - er - differently abled. (yeah, that's the ticket)
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>>Now if she goes into the hearing and lays a wet one on Dianne Feinstein I think we'll it all covered.
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>>Who cares about the Ricci case.
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>Splendid that you can all take such pleasure in someone being injured.
Oh lighten up. He said the comics were going to have fun with it and I joked that now she was not only Latina and a woman (her two most important credentials which she feels make her a wise judge) but was now also handicapped and just being a Lesbian short of the dream appointment. I'd hardly call that Schadenfreude.
More a commentary on the identity-politics spoils-system that has become our national life.
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- Thomas Hardy
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