Is this a female Gerald Ford?

[Boxlicker101]

Maybe so.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090608/ap_on_go_su_co/us_sotomayor_injury

 

[Stella_Omega]

Is this something she does all the time?

If I stumble often enough, can I be the President of the United States too?

 

[SlickTony]

Geez, Gerald Ford wasn't that much of a klutz. He was a competent athlete in college--he did tend to suffer the kind of mishaps that befall tall people, and then the old SNL bunch took off running with it.

As for Judge Sotomayor, she has my total sympathy...if you'll recall, the same thing happened to me last September. I was running to catch a bus, and I stumbled and suffered a spiral fracture to my tibia. It looks like her break was not nearly as bad as mine. She was able to carry on and get on the plane and all, and only noticed later her ankle was swollen. When it happened to me, my ankle would not bear my weight.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I had to put out genuine effort to break my leg. Spraining ankles, on the other hand, is child's play.

Come on, Stella, do you really want to be PotUS? Remember, you'd have to deal with Congress persons and Senators!

 

[neonlyte]

What happened to the Alaskan Bimbo?

Did she get shot by the Ruskies?

Hell... she'd make a fine Pres, just picture HER speech in Cairo... where?

 

[Boxlicker101]

Geez, Gerald Ford wasn't that much of a klutz. He was a competent athlete in college--he did tend to suffer the kind of mishaps that befall tall people, and then the old SNL bunch took off running with it.

As for Judge Sotomayor, she has my total sympathy...if you'll recall, the same thing happened to me last September. I was running to catch a bus, and I stumbled and suffered a spiral fracture to my tibia. It looks like her break was not nearly as bad as mine. She was able to carry on and get on the plane and all, and only noticed later her ankle was swollen. When it happened to me, my ankle would not bear my weight.

He was more than just competent. In his senior year, Ford played in the East-West Shrine Game and the College All Star Game, and he could have played in the NFL if he had been interested. I know he wasn't as much of a klutz as he was reputed to be. It was a combination of the way he became president and somebody's crack about walking and chewing gum, that gave him that rep. and comedians capitalized on it.

I can also sympathize with the judge. I have never had a broken ankle, but I have had a couple of nasty sprains. The tibia is actually a bone of the leg, and you would be unable to put any weight on that foot if it was broken. There are several bones in the ankle, and you can still walk with one of them broken, but with pain and difficulty.

 

[Belegon]

My first thought was that she was already likely going to breeze through Capitol Hill in comparison to recent POTUS noms and that now the questioners were not only gonna have to careful about berating her gender and race but be aware of how it looks to yell at somebody who is hurt.

Of course that didn't stop Mr. Reprehensible from using it as fodder. Rush is an asshole.

 

[Safe_Bet]

Is this something she does all the time?

If I stumble often enough, can I be the President of the United States too?

STELLA for President!!! W00t!

*has a wonderful vision of President Stella bitch slapping the shit out of Rush Limbaugh!*

 

[DesertPirate]

STELLA for President!!! W00t!

*has a wonderful vision of President Stella bitch slapping the shit out of Rush Limbaugh!*

As long as she gives Stewart Smalley an equal number of slaps

 

[Boxlicker101]

My first thought was that she was already likely going to breeze through Capitol Hill in comparison to recent POTUS noms and that now the questioners were not only gonna have to careful about berating her gender and race but be aware of how it looks to yell at somebody who is hurt.

Of course that didn't stop Mr. Reprehensible from using it as fodder. Rush is an asshole.

The broken ankle is just a temporary inconvenience, and won't have any effect on anything. I doubt that anybody will even mention it during the confirmation hearings, except maybe to ask if it is healing properly or some other empathetic thing.

I will never defend Rush for any of the despicable things he says, nor will I attack anybody on the basis of race or gender. However, tell me this: If a WASP male had said something to the effect that, as a white man, his life experiences made him a better candidate for SCOTUS, the screams of outrage would be heard everywhere, and rightly so. Should anybody get a pass on the basis of race and/or gender?

 

[Stella_Omega]

As long as she gives Stewart Smalley an equal number of slaps

yeah, I'll give the real person real slaps, and the fictional person fictional slaps.

... this says so much about Republican thought processes...

 

[Stella_Omega]

The broken ankle is just a temporary inconvenience, and won't have any effect on anything. I doubt that anybody will even mention it during the confirmation hearings, except maybe to ask if it is healing properly or some other empathetic thing.

I will never defend Rush for any of the despicable things he says, nor will I attack anybody on the basis of race or gender. However, tell me this: If a WASP male had said something to the effect that, as a white man, his life experiences made him a better candidate for SCOTUS, the screams of outrage would be heard everywhere, and rightly so. Should anybody get a pass on the basis of race and/or gender?

You just said it-- "And rightly so."

What "pass" exactly, are you thinking a candidate would get on the basis of race or gender?

 

[Boxlicker101]

Originally Posted by Boxlicker101

I will never defend Rush for any of the despicable things he says, nor will I attack anybody on the basis of race or gender. However, tell me this: If a WASP male had said something to the effect that, as a white man, his life experiences made him a better candidate for SCOTUS, the screams of outrage would be heard everywhere, and rightly so. Should anybody get a pass on the basis of race and/or gender?

You just said it-- "And rightly so."

What "pass" exactly, are you thinking a candidate would get on the basis of race or gender?

I don't think anybody should get a pass. Sonia Sotomayor has been reliably quoted several times saying, in effect, that her life experiences as an Hispanic woman make her uniquely qualified to be a member of SCOTUS. If a WASP male had said such a thing about his qualifications, he would be widely castigated, and I believe he would be deserving of it. So, I am asking if a female non-WASP, or anybody else, should be able to get by with saying similar things about herself.

 

[Guest]

Originally Posted by Boxlicker101

Sonia Sotomayor has been reliably quoted several times saying, in effect, that her life experiences as an Hispanic woman make her uniquely qualified to be a member of SCOTUS. If a WASP male had said such a thing about his qualifications, he would be widely castigated, and I believe he would be deserving of it. So, I am asking if a female non-WASP, or anybody else, should be able to get by with saying similar things about herself.

A WASP male would be widely castigated for saying that, because it's a stupid thing to say about a court that has been packed since inception with WASP males. For a female Hispanic woman to mention that she might bring a unique insight to a court that has few female voices and no Hispanic ones is another thing entirely. You may not agree she'd bring a unique perspective, and I may not either, but it's not nearly the binary issue you make it out to be.

Back when Earl Warren's driver couldn't get a room at his hotel and had to sleep in the car I'd wager a black man or hispanic woman might well have had a fresh, unique contribution to the court that all the WASP males didn't have, too.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I don't think anybody should get a pass. Sonia Sotomayor has been reliably quoted several times saying, in effect, that her life experiences as an Hispanic woman make her uniquely qualified to be a member of SCOTUS. If a WASP male had said such a thing about his qualifications, he would be widely castigated, and I believe he would be deserving of it. So, I am asking if a female non-WASP, or anybody else, should be able to get by with saying similar things about herself.

Yes.

Click the linkie.



(ETA;

And this one too. And then tell me if an ethnic woman has the right to say that she understands what it's like to live as a minority in this country.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Originally Posted by Boxlicker101

I don't think anybody should get a pass. Sonia Sotomayor has been reliably quoted several times saying, in effect, that her life experiences as an Hispanic woman make her uniquely qualified to be a member of SCOTUS. If a WASP male had said such a thing about his qualifications, he would be widely castigated, and I believe he would be deserving of it. So, I am asking if a female non-WASP, or anybody else, should be able to get by with saying similar things about herself.

Yes.

Click the linkie.



(ETA;

And this one too. And then tell me if an ethnic woman has the right to say that she understands what it's like to live as a minority in this country.

I read the first link, and it says that judges are often influenced by their backgrounds in making decisions. That's not exactly a secret. I also don't think it's right. A law is either constitutional or not, and an accused person is either guilty or not, although there are varying degrees and mitigating circumstances that might come into play. However, I do believe that all persons who are to be judged should be judged by the same standards.

I also read the second link. It was an incident that was probably racial or ethnic profiling, but the cop was apparently looking for illegal aliens. I don't like the idea of profiling, although I probably benefit by it. I don't see that it has anything to do with the racial or ethnic or gender background of individual judges. Anybody would have found that cop in the wrong.

I'm not sure what you mean by an "ethnic woman." Everybody is a member of one or more ethnic groups, including me. I am descended from Irish, English, and Native American ancestors, and probably some other ethnicities that I don't know about. Or care about, for that matter. Either everybody is a member of an ethnic minority or nobody is, because there is no ethnic majority. There might be an ethnic plurality but I don't know what it would be, since everybody is so mixed up racially.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Oookay, Box.

We've been through this. Let's just pretend that several liberals and minority member have spoken up the disconnect between your assertions and reality, and that you haven't gotten it, okay?

And we'll go straight to the helplessly laughing point.