>>>>>>http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/08/sotomayor-breaks-ankle-on-her-way-to-capitol-hill/
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>>>>>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.
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>>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.
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>>More a commentary on the identity-politics spoils-system that has become our national life.
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>If you consider her identity politics "her two most important credentials," you should maybe read this.
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor
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>Of course the fact that she is Hispanic and a woman were in her favor. But she seems to be a qualified candidate apart from that, so it's a little insulting to her to say it's all she has going for her.

I did not say it was all she had going for her. She is a person of great accomplishment. But she has made a point that her being a Latina gives her special insight and from a political point of view her appointment is an example of identity politics. I have no problem with that but I find her positions on things like the Ricci case disturbing.