Sotomayor
The president is all about minority life experience – except in the case of Clarence Thomas, as WSJ’s Kimberley Strassel rudely points out by quoting him. As for Judge Sotomayor’s non-Latina qualifications, Jeffery Rosen in TNR says he’s been told she’s, “not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench”. Gallup, however, shows that the public likes her and David Broder thinks the president once again has republicans right where he wants them.
Anyone who thinks the Jeffrey Rosen article is a worthwhile source of information is seriously deluded. Did he provide the name of even one of his sources in that hit piece?
And if we’re talking about qualifications, not life experience, Sotomayor trumps pretty much every single person who’s been put up for the court in 70 years. Just sayin’…