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You obviously haven’t spent much time in America have you? It is imperative to know Spanish if you live in California the border states!

She hardly ever gives any reasoning for her decision and she might be one Associate Justice nominee who could have her appeals court judgement be overturned on a constitutional and equal rights issue while going through the nomination process.

While this appointment may do Pres. Obama a world of good especially in ensuring the Latino vote base you can’t help but wonder whether Judge Sotomayor is the right kind of justice for the Suprement Court. But Obama gets a 10 out of 10 for turning the appointment to his advantage.

He’s from the right (and from what I’ve read of him writing about Iraq … the nutty right), but I thought his book was measured and certainly spoke to a large constituency. (Even if much of that constituency is the ”Save or State” types like these guys in California).
http://www.saveourstate.org/vforums/forumdisplay.php?f=78

The author grew up in a small town in California’s Central Valley (which is a huge agricultural area drawing migrants across the border for generations).

He just talks a lot of anecdotal stuff, and about how things have changed since he was in high school.
About the rise odf identity politics amongst parts of the Latino community (particularly in higher education.. ”La Raza” they call it).
And spending time looking through that right wing Save our State website (over a year ago now) there was plenty of evidence that they highlighted of this ”La Raza” movement being real (if still small).

BTW, I’m not advocating the views of the author of ”Mexifornia” or the ”Save our State” people.
They challenge me just a bit, and I think they are worth reading as a test of one’s own liberalism.

Or alternatively there will be a large percentage of English speaking Americans with Latino backgrounds. Unless you imagine Spanish speakers are going to miraculously maintain their language generation unto generation depite living in an English speaking culture as well as getting non Spanish speakers to speak the language.

My apologies for contradicting the most interesting person on here

I am always coherent, as well as being the most interesting person posting here! One of George Orwell’s most important aphorisms was ” Liberty, if it is anything, is the right to be told things that you do not want to hear”.

PP isn’t as bad as Socialist Unity which is full of brain dead Marxists debating how to bring about the socialist revolution and usher in the workers paradise. It still hasn’t dawned on them wherever their brand of politics has been tried it has ended up in starvation, gulags and mass murder. I keep pointing this out to them but they won’t listen!

I was just more interested in the identity politica angle.

And I’m shocked bill has said something on-topic and coherent.

It’s like the West Wing and Supreme Court Justice Bill Adama, I mean, Roberto Mendoza..

Heh that was my first thought too.

Obama played up the fact that she comes from a poor, immigrant family from Puerto Rico, who was enveloped in “the American dream”.

Just to expand on what Ravi mentioned above, Obama also emphasised the fact that she has more experience than any of her impending colleagues did when they first joined the Supreme Court themselves.

It is important to realise the differences between the different Spanish groups in the country. The majority of Cubans live in Florida and tend to be anti Castro and conservative being anti communist and doing well in business.

There has always been a large Spanish speaking community from when the country was a part of Mexico until the annexation of California,New Mexico,Nevada and others parts after the war of 1848. It is only necessary to look at the Spanish names to realise the penetration of the Spanish.

If the Democrats can permanently detach even a proportion of these voters then the Republicans could be out of office for as long as the five terms of Roosevelt and Truman.