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Sonia Sotomayor's Socialist Yearbook Quote Sure to Inspire Idiocy, Hilarity
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Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat May 27, 2009 06:47am |
Category | Blog Entry |
News Date | May 27, 2009 12:45am |
Description | Well won't you lookee here! Now the truth has been revealed about why Barack Obama loves Sonia Sotomayor so dang much—-She's a pinko socialist just like he is, as evidenced by her quoting a six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America in the 1976 Princeton yearbook.
Steven Waldman at Beliefnet cold busted the White House press office distributing the image of Sotomayor quoting Norman Thomas, "the leading American Socialist politician of the 20th century," in the little gay press packet they compiled on their SCOTUS nominee. The quote itself—-"I am not a champion of lost causes, but of causes not yet won."—-and the thinking behind the White House's inclusion of it in its press materials left Waldman flummoxed, which then led him to doing some serious speculating. |
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