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  Posted By: labman57 @ 06/29/2009 4:19:52 PM

  It would be foolish for social conservatives to hang their hat on this decision as proof that Sotomayor is unqualified to sit on the SCOTUS.
  
  It was a 5-4 decision, meaning that 44% of the court AGREED with her on this matter. So clearly she was not out in left field with her legal opinion.
  
  The reason why we have 9 justices is because the Founding Fathers recognized the value of alternative points of view.

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    Posted By: EWest @ 06/29/2009 8:44:05 PM

    It actually does mean she is out in "LEFT" field.

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      Posted By: tired and old @ 06/29/2009 10:51:21 PM

      WHAT CAN ONE EXPECT FROM A PREJUDICIAL JUSTICE LIKE SOTOMAYOR ?
      
      MORE REVERSE DISCRIMINATION ------- THATS WHAT !
      
      OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WOULD NEVER BELIEVE WHAT LIBERALS ARE DOING TO THIS COUNTRY ----
      
      

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  Posted By: tired and old @ 06/29/2009 10:45:35 PM

  LIBERALS " DISCRIMINATION IS WRONG "; UNLESS, YOUR WHITE AND BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST.
  
  REVERSE DISCRIMINATION IS OK ?
  
  SOTOMAYOR BELIEVES IN REVERSE DISCRIMINATION AND PREZ OBAMA DOES TOO !

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  Posted By: mjkoch @ 06/29/2009 3:14:25 PM

  I applaud the Supreme Court for ruling that merit should come before preferential treatment. We are not helping minorities by applying different LOWER standards to their admissions to colleges and universities, and in hiring and job promotions. We are consigning a generation of minority youth into believing that because of their ethnicity they are entitled to special privileges. This has made white students at colleges and universities across our country assume that their fellow classmates got where they are because of their color and not because of their ability and in the long run this harms and does not help those who truly need assistance.
  
  Every ethnic group that came to America suffered substantial discrimination from Jews, Irish, and Italians, and Asian Americans. None of these groups ever demanded to be put ahead of other more qualified people and they instead relied on their own hard work and efforts to succeed. They raised their children on the merits of hard work and getting an education and not in idolizing rappers and people who can put a basketball thru a hoop. They taught their children the value of achieving success based on their efforts, not on their being given special privileges or being entitled.
  
  Things have turned so far the other way in America that in our good intentions to address the evils of past discrimination we have bent over backwards in not only allowing people into college who clearly could not be accepted on their own to promoting people to jobs over other more qualified employees. Instead of addressing past wrongs this further inflames racist beliefs.
  
  The only persons who should be given assistance are those economically disadvantaged or physically or mentally disabled. Promotions on the job should be based on something old fashioned we used to have in America called ability to perform and track record on the job, not on the color of one's skin. A truly color blind society is one in which there are no more racial preferences, where students taking the college boards do not have to check a block listing whether they are Caucasion, African American, Hispanic, or American Indian before they take the test, and where those applying for job promotions and raises have their performance based on what they've done to merit an increase or new job title, not on what their skin pigmentation is.