[Bret L]

Sonia Sotomayor: Barack Obama’s Ideological Soul Mate


[Steve Sailer]

" Mickey Kaus points to an NYT article about Sonia Sotomayor’s service on some kind of New York housing handout board a couple of decades ago, which documents both her Obama-like Who? Whom? worldview and her anti-Obama tendency to rub people the wrong way.

“She wanted lower-income people served, and that’s a good goal,”
said Royce Mulholland, who represented the state’s Division of Housing
and Community Renewal on the board. “But we also explained that the
insurance program was intended to serve moderate- and middle-income
apartments — and we only provided the insurance, which means we had
very little leverage.”

Ms. Sotomayor did not confine her scrutiny to the balance between
low- and middle-income housing.

After receiving a report about the agency’s affirmative action
program in 1989, she requested a breakdown of the number of black and
Hispanic workers. Later that year, when she was informed that just 8
percent of the agency’s contracts went to businesses owned by women or
members of minorities, she called its performance “abysmal.”

“It was like a boys’ club when we came there,” recalled Hazel
Dukes, who is black and joined the board about the same time as Ms.
Sotomayor. “We knew how to be pushy. We were like bees in their
bonnet.”

Fioravante G. Perrotta, a former agency board member, did not care
for Ms. Sotomayor’s views. Mr. Perrotta recalls her as conscientious
and knowledgeable, but he said she was an “extreme partisan” on
questions of class and ethnicity.

“She made it very clear that she was very liberal and a Democrat,”
Mr. Perrotta said, “and that really should have been a nonpolitical
organization.”

Basically, Sotomayor is what Barack Obama would be if he had never
mastered his “I have understood you” Jedi mind control shtick where he
recounts his interlocutor’s argument more eloquently that his
conversational partner put it himself, thus persuading 99% of the
people he talks to that he shares their views. After all, if he
understands my views, how could he possibly not hold my views?

John Carney at Business Insider offers a more lucid explanation of
what this government thing-a-mabob was supposed to do, and how
Sotomayor’s activism is relevant to today’s mortgage meltdown."

http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2009/...cal-soul-mate/