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Sir;... What does: Barack Obama's America Mean??? Are you saying that is not the same as Pat Bucannan's America, or Jim Sweeney's???I know there are a lot of people who think there is a rich people's America, and a poor people's America... I know some people think there is a Christian America; and then there is the city, haven for democrats, librals, prostitutes and drug dealers... It is all the same place, and all the same people, and Mrs. SotoMayor represents everything we should love about America, that people can still overcome injustice, discrimination and poverty by sheer force of will to become something and some one of respect and achievement...Don't look at me... I have ton of intellect and an ounce of ambition... I have all but given up on this people, and this country, but I don't think anyone else would have me... My son, who is a some body married a girl from Puerto Rico, and I could not be more impressed with her character, the character of her family, and the character of that nation of people... We have a problem with reality if we cannot make them a state in the Union... They know they are treated as second class citizens... They have fought in our wars, and we give them short change...I hope none of this is lost on Mrs. SotoMayor...I hope she knows how many brave men have laid their lives on the line for the star spangled banner, and died in the contempt of this nation...You, and the republicans do yourselves dirty when they abuse that woman...What is your fear, that she will put justice before the constitution??? We should all do nothing other... The constitution has shown itself to be a flawed document of a flawed form of government... Some one has to correct it, and the people cannot...We are all frustrated by it, left and right... We cannot reform our government, and we do not want to dissolve the bonds that bind us... What then is left to us but the hope that people in power will pull us from each other's throats, and suggest in calmness and in patience what our course to reconciliation might be...There is no better choice than for one who has been aggrieved to be the judge...We have had enough of the oppressors, -the wasps, the men, the whites, the rich, the conservatives judging our progress, and telling us all is well...It is not well... The Supreme court is the court of last appeal, and it needs people there who are willing to restore to America the relationship envisioned in the constitution... Forget the law...If the law is not just, though it is written in Gold it will never be law... Law is first just, and no document two hundred years old can tell us today what is just for this people and for this land... So quit trying to make yourself and your party look like esses to the very people whose vote you need... Consent to do what is right... The court needs an ear for reason and a heart for justice...It needs an advocate for right who can make the case behind the curtain of honor that surround that place... Thanks...Sweeney

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It's time to lighten up on Sotomayor. She's not going to be running the Supreme Court. Hers is just one vote. She will be a fresh voice. And there are some conservative lightweights on the court, too. Thomas comes to mind. And the new justices Bush appointed have been rubber stamp conservative. Their votes, along with those of Scalia and Thomas have been a predictable as the sun coming up each day. It's time for some new blood. Look at the bright side, Pat, she's the sixth catholic on the court. I like the way Jay Leno sees it, she replaces Ginsburg as the hottest chick on the court!

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Pat, every time I see you on tv you are raging. Be careful of exposing yourself as an apoplectic lunatic. I had no idea you were such a scared white man. BTW, Alito's membership in Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) is just your cup of tea, and he got away with beliefs such as yours. See below: In a 1973 article in Prospect, a magazine CAP published, one of its founders, Shelby Cullom Davis, harked back to the days when a gathering of Princeton alumni consisted of “a body of men, relatively homogeneous in interests and backgrounds.” Lamented Cullom Davis: “I cannot envisage a similar happening in the future with an undergraduate student population of approximately 40% women and minorities, such as the Administration has proposed.” Another article published that same year bemoaned the fact that “the makeup of the Princeton student body has changed drastically for the worse” in recent years–Princeton had begun admitting women in 1969–and wondered aloud what might happen if the university adopted a “sex-blind” policy “removing limits on the number of women.” In an unsuccessful effort to forestall this frightening development, the executive committee of CAP published a statement in December 1973 that affirmed unequivocally, “Concerned Alumni of Princeton opposes adoption of a sex-blind admission policy.” By the time Alito was readying his 1985 job application with the Reagan Administration, the admission of women and minorities was well established at Nassau Hall, but this did not stop CAP from lamenting the consequences. “People nowadays just don't seem to know their place,” fretted a 1983 Prospect essay titled “In Defense of Elitism.” You can't stop change Pat, what you can do is stop promoting fear and hatred and bigotry.

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An Hispanic who refers to himself (or herself) as a "person of color" is a brainwashed idiot. It perpetuates Anglo-Saxon American racism, a vile racism that is promoted by Zionist Jews for their own nefarious divide and conquer purposes. If Sotomayor cannot identify herself ethno-racially as Puerto Rican or simply as Hispanic she ought to keep her trap shut. European Americans who identify themselves as "white" are also idiots.

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It's karma, Mr. Buchanan. Right back atcha. Human nature being what it is, you really expect not to see the folks who've been discriminated against for so long turn around and do the same darn thing now that they're on top? You should be thanking your lucky stars the get-even game is turning out to be such a softball affair. But you know all of this. You just have to put out some kind of garbage to sell because it's a living, after all. You know full well that you use the tactics of your enemy when they become available, just like you phony conservatives will try to do, incompetently for sure, as you oppose Sotomayor's appointment.

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You belong to the CofCC, a group that preaches anything that isn't white is "less than" or inadequate ..so I just think you are anti-anything that isn't white. Take a seat Buchanan. The era has turned and racism is no longer allowed in our govt. If you don't like it, leave.

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to Pat BUCHANAN from Noel E. PARMENTEL Jr ( NoelJr@OptOnline.Net ) re: Judge SotoMayor as >LightWeight< Dear Pat= Yeah, you Right (from the Beginning). She s NO Harriet Miers. Best/Noel