The politics of Sonia Sotomayor
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22980.html

BEN SMITH & JOSH KRAUSHAAR the authors of this article both set a tone of support for Obama's nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Although they definitely included several different quotes from republicans on the opposing side, thier ultimate stance was quite clear. The article speaks about the positive national implications that may come from this nominee. Although in a large portion of the article it refers to how much Obama has pissed republicans off, it seems that he may have touched and won the support of both women and hispanics as well as a wide variety of other liberals.

This article does really touch on her backgroud or merit but it definitely touches on her ideology. It portrays it to be pretty liberal with a huge emphasis and belief of racial identity. It seems as though she has made bold statements in the past arguing that a hispanic woman could make better decisions than a lot of "white males". Although we discussed in class the relatively moderate stance that she has the idea that I got from this article is that she is relatively liberal. The most obvious portion was that that argued how much this nominee will help the democrats and if she was simply moderate it wouldn't make too much of a difference.

I feel that Obama's nominee is definitely a good one and although in class we spoke of her moderate stance in politics I feel that if nothing else a statement on how diverse and far America has come is definitely enough. I feel that this is more important than an extremely liberal judge being added to the Supreme court. This is a huge stride for both women, hispanic people, and our nation as a whole.