Jeff Sessions: But, but, the other Puerto Rican judge didn't think like you do......

[marmar]

from the Politico:



July 14, 2009
Categories: Judiciary

Sessions comment "baffling," Hispanic Fed head says


Jeff Sessions's seemingly unprompted reference to a Sotomayor colleague as "of Puerto Rican ancestry" has irked the head of one of the country's oldest Hispanic organizations.

Lillian Rodriguez- Lopez, president of the Hispanic Federation:

“Sen. Sessions's comment on Puerto Rican ancestry is baffling. First, he focuses on the need to uphold the law based on the Constitution and legal precedent and then he expects our judges to think exactly alike based on a shared ethnicity. Sonia Sotomayor is a brilliant jurist, as is Judge Cabranes. They share a heritage but are highly capable of varied, intelligent analysis of the law. Sen. Sessions should re focus his attention on her 17-year legal career as a judge and allow Judge Sotomayor to respond to valid issues at the hearing.”


http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0709/Sessions_comment_baffling_Hispanic_Fed_head_says.html

[ashling]

1. Sen. Sessions should re focus his attention on

dislodging his head from his butthole.

:rofl:

[provis99]

2. well, Sessions is an old style southern racist

why would anyone think his comment is baffling? He just thinks Puerto Ricans all think alike; that's what racists think, so there shouldn't be any surprise.

[misanthrope]

6. And a proud resident of Mobile, Alabama...

...a place that where confederate heritage is important, where the town dresses a bunch of young women up in Southern belle regalia and trots them out as ambassadors of the city, where one of the local heroes is unrepentant Confederate Adm. Raphael Semmes whose name adorns businesses and landmarks and whose statue is at the foot of the city's grand boulevard and a place where Sessions enjoys widespread support.

[Horse with no Name]

3. He is so stupid it hurts. n/t

[BlooInBloo]

4. Well duh, that's his line of reasoning, that he's too much of a coward to say out loud...

(a) People with brown skin all think alike
(b) Any member of a group, all of whom think alike, cannot properly be impartial.

Therefore Sotomayor cannot be impartial, as she has brown skin.

[MineralMan]

5. The only Puerto Rican woman he's ever seen before

was a comedian who said she said "Ai, Papi!!" when having sex. I can't remember her name offhand.

[fishwax]

7. not *too* baffling: he's a bigot

[ruggerson]

8. the fact that this bigoted piece of garbage is actually a US Senator

does not speak well for Alabama.

[misanthrope]

13. What you see is what you get**nm

**

[opihimoimoi]

15. Is it the Air?? The Food? Water? what makes them think that way?

[NNN0LHI]

9. His only possible purpose for this was to highlight she is of Puerto Rican ancestry

He is a fuck head.

Don

[Solomon]

10. Never forget though, bigot he may be, but he also

represents a constituency that thinks the same way.

[Canuckistanian]

11. Interesting how the mind of a bigot works

They see individual minorities as an amorphous blob of people, all having the same thoughts, likes and dislikes.

It probably never even occurs to him that that there are two Latinos or Latinas who are totally opposite to each other.

[L. Coyote]

12. Don't miss Democracy Now today, re Sessions and racism

He admired the KKK until he heard they were pot smokers!

Two Decades After His Rejection from Federal Bench for Racial Bias, Sen. Jeff Sessions Leads GOP Opposition to Sotomayor
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/14/sessions

[EFerrari]

14. You beat me!

lol

[DailyGrind51]

16. Because we all know that members of minority groups ALL think alike, right Senator?

[bdamomma]

17. Sessions is showing his true racist stripes.