>>>>I doubt she thinks "only wise Latino women can make the right choices." Did she actually say that?
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>>>That's a pretty close paraphrase. Have you not been listening to the news on this? Now it turns out she wasn't exactly a scholar either. She have very low test scores but got into college because she was in a protected class. Gee, nothing like loading up the supreme court with affirmative action, substandard lawyers.
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>>>From Drudge -
>>>PAPER: Sotomayor once described herself as 'product of affirmative action'...
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>>>...admitted to two Ivy League schools despite scoring lower on standardized tests than many classmates, which she attributed to 'cultural biases... built into testing'... Developing...
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>>Maybe she was admitted to Princeton with the help of affirmative action. Probably was. The fact remains she graduated first in her class. Are you not impressed by that?
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>I'm doubtful that she was actually first. Those liberal colleges/universities have been known to boost the affirmative action students. I believe they are the ones who started the concept of "feeling good about your answers."

I may have been mistaken about her being first in her class, which I read somewhere. According to Wikipedia she graduated summa cum laude, which isn't shabby, but it does not say first in her class. Based on the statement that she got mostly A's her last two years, she probably wasn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor

IAC I can see nothing you hear is going to dissuade you. You seem fixed in the thought that anything she has accomplished has been given to her.