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Originally Posted by Derwood
Can we lock this thread please? It's clear that people refuse to read the entire Sotomayer speech and are content to label her a racist and divisive based on a cherry-picked line. No one is listening to each other and we're going around in circles.
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Ah but that's politics. If it were a white man and a GOP president nominated him and he made similar statements.... the left and press would be all over that one statement, context wouldn't mean a damn thing.
My point above is that if you are in the political game, you have to realize that as you move up EVERYTHING you say will be looked at and dissected. You can claim "taken out of context", however, the question has to be why would you say anything so divisive to begin with?
You can have the best voting record/judgments and the respect of both parties, but the second you try to advance, people on the other side will look heavily into all your speeches, your past and so on. The second they find something they can use..... they will.
She gave them something they could use to scare Middle White Suburbia. And to some degree it is working, to some degree it is backfiring in other areas of the country.
It's called politics and it's just the way it is as one side scrambles for more power.
So lock the thread because people are doing what they do in politics and taking things out of context and trying to spin things for the advancement of their own power??????
But lock the thread when it is only against your side. Heaven forbid locking it when a GOP says something and the Left decides to take it out of context and blow it up as they scramble for power.