1. Clif Soulo wrote:

Great summary of what’s going on with Sotomayor and this whole situation Marc. In my opinion, the farther Obama gets in his first term, the more desperate the republicans are seeming…

2. ~JJG~ wrote:

Ah. . .I like how “…Obama’s centrist politics…” is thrown in there (chuckle). Well, that’s how you govern when you want everyone to like you and vote for you again. Just wait, if he has a second term, his liberalism will emerge.

And I hear Sotomayor has some pro-choice advocates worried. Interesting. . .

3. DCI74 wrote:

Interesting piece. Admittedly I don’t know anything about her other than what has been presented so far in various media outlets so maybe she is a good choice or an abject disaster in the making, who knows.

4. Mrs. Rivers wrote:

who cares. she cant be any worse than clarence thomas!

5. EminemsRevenge wrote:

As I stated HERE: http://eminemsrevenge.xanga.com/703059274/wheres-the-sotomayor-sex-pictures/
the GOP NEEDS some Paris Hilton-esque Sotomayor videos in order to BLOCK the nomination!!!

6. Tom Penn wrote:

“…Obama’s centrist politics…”

I found that interesting as well. Dr. Hill so wants this country to be Cuba, that he forgets that politically speaking, the United States is still a right of center country. Hence, President Obama governs from the center as anyone in his position wisely would.

As far as Judge Sotomayor is concerned, she is so eminently qualified it is ridiculous! In my view, ANYONE who can graduate from an Ivy League school Summa Cum Laude, is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court!

And as far as her “temperament” is concerned? She is a woman from the Bronx, New York City. Within the five boroughs, she’s normal. Outside the Big Apple, people just speak too slow!

The president made a brilliant choice. Antonin Scalia is considered the greatest intellect on the court. I bet in years to come, legal scholars will refer to the two intellectual giants on the bench, Scalia AND Sotomayor.

7. Marc Lamont Hill wrote:

Tom,

You said, “In my view, ANYONE who can graduate from an Ivy League school Summa Cum Laude, is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court!”

I hope you’re just being hyperbolic. Are you seriously saying that once you have graduated with high honors from an IVY is qualified to sit on the SC? Academic success is one thing, being a principled, ethical reliable, non-partisan, intellectually gifted jurist is another. While I support Sotomayor, I wouldn’t aver the qualification of every nominee who happens to have attended Cornell Law School. That strikes me as elitist, naive, and anti-intellectual.

8. Tom Penn wrote:

Of course I made an extravagant exaggeration Dr. Hill, but I think you know how rare it is for someone to graduate Suma from an Ivy. And I don’t say that to be elitist, I say it because if one does receive Suma from either Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Penn, they have been granted the highest award from one of the greatest institutions of higher learning in the history of western civilization. This is such an accolade for Judge Sotomayor and her credentials for the court.

The constitution lays out no requirements for a Supreme Court nominee. Traditionally, most presidential picks have been lawyers, but few have been as qualified as Sonia Sotomayor. President Dwight David Eisenhower nominated California Governor Earl Warren, because Warren was speculated to be Eisenhower’s chief rival for the presidency in 1956. With that one decision, the president almost assured his re-election. President Kennedy gets credit for nominating one of the most brilliant minds to ever sit on the court in Justice Byron White. White only graduated Magna Cum Laude from Yale, but the reason Kennedy chose White, was because he was a close personal friend of the Kennedy family.

Now there is some speculation that President Obama nominated Judge Sotomayor solely because she is a Latina. Now, would our beloved president do something so blatantly political? Possibly, because like many of his predecessors, Barak Obama is a politician.

I hope one day President Obama nominates Dr. Charles J. Ogletree to the court. Not only because he is a distinguished legal scholar, but because I think it would be cool if the man who taught both Barack and Michelle Obama at Harvard was placed on the Supreme Court by one of his former students.

9. Marc Lamont Hill wrote:

“Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Penn” LOL… like how your worked penn in there. for the record, columbia’s law school (and for that matter, stanford & nyu) is higher ranked than penn’s ….

10. ChgoSista wrote:

Shit–I gotta work on correctly pronouncing her last name….

So-to-my-YORE?
So-to-MY-or?

Damn…

11. Sean wrote:

Marc,

Although, I disagree with your politics, I have grown to really appreciate your objectiveness on O’Reilly. I looke forward to reading your new book as well.

With that said, I consider you to be very objective and thus am struggling with the “centrist politics” description of Obama. Can you provide some context around these words? I was hoping that he would lean that way but I think he is as far away from center as possible.

12. Eric Jackson wrote:

Rush Limbaugh calls Barak Obama a reverse racist.

One of the most popular, outspoken conservative personalities in media today has called Barack Obama a Reverse Racist. “Obama is the greatest living example of a reverse racist and now he’s appointed one.” (Sonia Sotomayor).

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2009/05/31/mcconnell.on.racist.charge.cnn