Democrats To Obama: Say That Sotomayor Misspoke Already!

It seems as though there’s growing pressure on Obama from his own party to explain away Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s inflammatory racial comments as her having simply “misspoken.”
Which, I guess, puts lie to the spin that has been coming from the left about how her statements weren’t a big deal at all. If they’re not a big deal, why the

“She misspoke,” said Lanny Davis, a White House lawyer and spokesman for President Bill Clinton. “Every day that goes by that they don’t say she misspoke and she used the wrong words … they just feed it and give it life and give Rush [Limbaugh] and [Sean] Hannity more airtime unnecessarily.”
Said Democratic strategist Chris Lehane: “In this day and age, six or seven or eight weeks is a long time to go without addressing an issue that can potentially take on a life of its own and evolve and grow.”

The problem with the “she misspoke” spin is that…Sotomayor didn’t misspeak. Not any more than Obama misspoke when he talked about all the bible-thumping gun clingers out in rural America.
They meant what they said. It’s just now that what they said is politically inconvenient, they don’t want to have meant it.

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  • http://Array badlands4

    Gosh, nice comments to read this am :(

    Here is my take on this, and it is only *my* take, so could be waaay off, but, can we just get a politician, ANY politician who will just stand by their remarks no matter the political fallout. Do we just have NO Mr. Smith any longer??? Everything is phony. Everything is focused group and calculated as to how it will play at home just to get them elected again.

    There are a few who stand up no matter what may come from their opinions and whether you agree with them or not(on one side of the spectrum you have Ron Paul who stands up for his beliefs and on the other side you have Dennis Kuchnicich(sorry for the spelling) who stands for his beliefs no matter what), but most politicians are just slimy :(

    I believe she did not misspeak. I believe she is a racist. I believe she is an activist judge, which sounds all fine and good, IF the activist judge falls where you are politically, BUT, it isn’t so good if you all of the sudden have an activist judge that you do NOT agree with, and that is why you need a judge who strictly follows the law and the constitution….it protects everybody that way.

    Regardless of what I believe, I could respect her if she just says “yes, and I stand by it” vs the political spin and focus group “managing” of things

    Sigh…where is Mr. Roberts when we need him?

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    It won’t hurt the Democrats among their core racist members, but it will make a big difference to swing voters who remember Obama’s lies about being post racial.

  • TomTom

    Gotta be a conspiracy..A Black-Racist-Militant-Muslim as president and a WETBACK on the SCOTUS? The Revolution is about to start! That’s why there is no ammo at gun stores. I fear an uprising coming.

  • arianne

    Apologies only add insult to injury they still mean what they said so run with it and don’t ask for clarification

  • Bodhi

    She will be confirmed and be liberal justice. Obama will get to appoint at least one more justice and that person too, will be a liberal.

    What is liberal justice? In my understanding of how the supreme court works; politics, race, religion, creed are not supposed to make any different to a blind justice. This blind justice rules on the issues at hand, not the person at hand.

    It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when a person advocates justice based on a political dogma.

  • bill-tb

    RA, you nailed it .. a racist bigot is a racist bigot no matter how you try and hide it.

    Sotomayor is an insult to the Supreme Court and all the progress that has been made by the civil rights movement defeating racism. MLK would be ashamed.

    But she is a reflection of Obama and his racism and bigotry. How else do you explain the 20 years in rev Wright’s church.

    She is wanted by Obama to be on the Supreme Court simply because she is a bigoted racist, not because of her lack of judicial temperance.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Obama will get to appoint at least one more justice and that person too, will be a liberal.

    That’s what happens when you lose.

    Dino’s actually right for once.

    On the other hand the fact that Obama has appointed a bigot isn’t going to help him in 2012 nor is it going to help the Dems in 2010.

  • Mark

    The republicans are doing quite well in the uppermidwest[SIC].
    LOL, is that what the Dark Lord is telling you? Quite well at what, putting their foot in their mouths? republicans doing well, that is a good one.

    NO,idiot, that’s what my own observations are telling me. It’s hard to find anyone around here who will admit to voting for Obama.

  • http://www.toadpond.com/ SuperToad

    They meant what they said. It’s just now that what they said is politically inconvenient, they don’t want to have meant it.

    …or they attempt a public apology hoping it can fix everything — I said what I meant, but since it was offensive, I will resort to a lying apology to cover my ass and save my career.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    The republicans aren’t doing well anywhere. But don’t despair. Like cockroaches, they’re a very resilient species. To a republican-roach stupid, greedy, selfish people are like the food crumbs you leave out on the counter.

  • raj58045

    That’s what happens when you lose. The other side gets to call the shots. You remember the 80s and 90s, right?

    That’s not quite accurate. They are still supposed to follow the guidelines of the Constitution. You know, that document that defines the rights of the individual, and the limits of the government. I know you libs think it should be the other way around, but your just plain wrong. Try reading it once, or in your case Dino, have someone read it to you.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    She will be confirmed and be liberal justice. Obama will get to appoint at least one more justice and that person too, will be a liberal.

    That’s what happens when you lose. The other side gets to call the shots. You remember the 80s and 90s, right?

  • Stewartized

    “Your side`s opposition guarantees the loss of Hispanic vote.” Right. Sort of like how your side lost the black vote when you opposed Thomas.

  • Mark

    In fact, your side’s opposition guarantees the loss of the hispanic vote. Congratulations. All you have left is the cracker south. Not even the cities in the south, just the trash.

    Besides being a racist asshole what else do you do for a living?

    The republicans are doing quite well in the uppermidwest.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    I don’t think she misspoke. I think she really IS a bigot.

  • sayanything-4625

    Poor white males. So mistreated.

    How do you ladies coope?

    Nice fact or opinion free rebuttal with an attack thrown in, You’re on fire today boy!

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    This appointment isn’t going to have any detrimental effect on anyone except in your fevered, delusional brain (stem).

    In fact, your side’s opposition guarantees the loss of the hispanic vote. Congratulations. All you have left is the cracker south. Not even the cities in the south, just the trash.

  • badlands4

    Sorry, that should be Mr SMITH goes to Washington…embarrassed blushing here, particularly since it is one of my favorite movies.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Poor white males. So mistreated.

    How do you ladies coope?

  • Buzz

    The republicans are doing quite well in the uppermidwest[SIC].

    LOL, is that what the Dark Lord is telling you? Quite well at what, putting their foot in their mouths? republicans doing well, that is a good one.

  • bill-tb

    You don’t get it do you? The progressives really want a reverse racist on the court. Get rid of the white guy anyway they can.

    Sotomayor is the perfect reverse racist to accomplish that. Afterall, every Court needs their bigot.

  • sayanything-4625

    Just like Obama “mispoke” when he said it was going to be to expensive to build new coal fired plants and that he was going to break the coal industry. He and most Democrats will say whatever they have to, to get power. The only honest Dem we have here is Dino and that’s because he is arrogant, an idiot or both.

  • http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

    Mark:

    It’s hard to find anyone around here who will admit to voting for Obama.

    Stand alone complex. They did not vote for Obama, they voted against Bush. Obama was the opposite in the dynamic.

    There’s a vast difference between being for something and against that thing’s opposition. One is an affirmation, a willful attachment, a perceived likeness and relationship inferred by it in the mind. The other is negation, a dismissal, a refusal, of whatever it is at hand. One requires affinity and the other requires less than that. One requires thought and positive feeling and opening and the other requires reflex and negative feeling and closing.

    Notice that the libtards here do not speak in affirmation of Obama. Buzz is an open racist. Hannitized is a slightly more closested racist. Dino is just plain insanely hateful of everything.

    None of them is actually affirmative, none of them expresses actual affinity for Obama. None of them can state his principles keeping to the ones Obama has actually gone on record with, and then state logical consistent and heartfelt reasoning for being in favor of those things. All they have is hating the other guy.

    The more we on the other side put reasoning together and our hearts to that reasoning, the more they become nastier, frothing at the mouth in frustration and anger at not understanding us and our convictions because they have no convictions. They have animosity without reasoning and cannot comprehend affirmation.

    I meet a lot of people who acknowledge voting for Obama in theory, that is to say actually pulling the lever or filing in a big X on the card, but cannot remember for the life of them why. They have a sort of demeanor like someone who five minutes ago was single and 22 and is suddenly after one eye blink 48 with three kids and they are all bad apples and the spouse is a cantankerous git. They all have a “what the fuck just happened” sort of shock mixed with a growing anger and resentment over what they are slowly feeling was a rip-off of epic proportions.

    Continuing with human dualism they now default to the Republicans slowly but surely.

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