This is a short portion of it:
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I read this today, as well:
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), seeking to discredit Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial philosophy, cited her 2001 “wise Latina” speech, and contrasted the view that ethnicity and sex influence judging with that of Judge Miriam Cedarbaum, who “believes that judges must transcend their personal sympathies and prejudices.”
“So I would just say to you, I believe in Judge Cedarbaum’s formulation,” Sessions told Sotomayor.
“My friend Judge Cedarbaum is here,” Sotomayor riposted, to Sessions’ apparent surprise. “We are good friends, and I believe that we both approach judging in the same way, which is looking at the facts of each individual case and applying the law to those facts.”
Cedarbaum agreed.
“I don’t believe for a minute that there are any differences in our approach to judging, and her personal predilections have no effect on her approach to judging,” she told Washington Wire. “We’d both like to see more women on the courts,” she added.
Cedarbaum, a pioneering woman lawyer who graduated from Columbia Law School in 1953, goes way back with both participants in the colloquy. Cedarbaum mentored Sotomayor after she joined the federal district court in Manhattan in 1992, and they have been close friends ever since.
In 1986, Cedarbaum and Sessions were both nominated to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan, and were members of the same orientation class for future judges. Their paths then diverged, however. Cedarbaum was confirmed, but Sessions nomination floundered over a controversy surrounding comments he made involving the Ku Klux Klan and the NAACP.
Link: Sotomayor Surprises Sessions (The sentence in bold was done so by me.)
I read this comment from Michael Steel:
Yes, that's right. To lure African-Americans into the GOP, Steele is offering "fried chicken and potato salad."
(Bil Browning.
LGBT blogger and new media consultant)
Back to Martin Luther King:
And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.
The case, Alan Keyes, et al. v Barack H. Obama, et al. was filed on Inauguration Day and is one of a raft of suits alleging Obama is ineligible to be president because he is not a "natural born citizen.”
Link
Enough with enhanced interrogation over every loving decision our President makes. Why is every thing he does, every appointment he makes, challenged? The nominees raked over the coals??? Let him do his job without the deliberate stonewalling. We may never know how and how quickly he could have instituted a solution. The GOP will continue halt his ideas and water down the plans that may have worked. But the majority want him to fail. All at the expense of the people of the U.S.
*Edited because one of my quotes disappeared and it looked like I was blogging under the influence.*
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