In an interview with Rachel Maddow tonight, Pat Buchanan makes an ass of himself stating that Sonia Sotomayor, a sitting judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit is not qualified to sit on the United States Supreme Court.
Judge Sotomayor isn't qualified? Seriously? She's never written anything? Except detailed and well researched legal opinions, Pat. Right. Forgot about those, didn't you.
Buchanan then goes on to say that this country was built by "white folks" and states that Sotomayor was appointed to the Appeals Court and the Supreme Court because she is a hispanic woman. And for only that reason. Buchanan wraps it up by stating that the reason we've only had white MEN (excluding Thomas) on the Supreme Court, is that the men have been more qualified.
Rachel has a good point, Pat. Let's compare your grades at Georgetown to Sotomayor's at Yale. Stop trying to paint white men as victims. Your problem is the one that DADocrat Daniel Levine so aptly pointed out earlier this week on MOMocrats: Pat, you are completely and utterly blind to your own prejudices and the privileges granted to you as a white male. You don't have a clue. Pat, until you walk a mile in a woman's heels or walk a mile in Sotomayor's heels, a Latina woman raised in the Bronix who really knows what working class Americans are like, shut the hell up. You don't speak for us.
It's people like Pat Buchanan who really make me fear for this country, who make me worry and fret about the world I've brought my children into. People like Pat Buchanan are completely unable to see the world outside their small sphere of experience. People like Pat Buchanan prefer to blame their own white, male shortcomings on the reverse discrimination bogey man than to get off of their own asses and work harder. People like Pat Buchanan find it easier to belittle an accomplished and intelligent JUDGE like Sonia Sotomayor, who has done far more for society than Pat Buchanan ever has, than to think for even a tiny moment that maybe, just maybe she actually is smarter.
And then Pat goes back to his office and asks his female secretary to fetch him some coffee. Because that's the way it should be. Because this country was "built by white folks." And by men. Women had absolutely nothing to do with it. Neither, apparently did anyone of color. Not even those who literally built the South.
Pat, you can stick this woman's size 6 1/2 high heeled shoe up your white, pompous ass.
After you dig Rachel's out.
Thanks to Tracy Viselli for the video. She has an excellent post of her own up about Buchanan. Cross posted at MOMocrats.
