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Elder Bush defends Sotomayor
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| Last Edited | Monsieur Jun 12, 2009 03:57pm |
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| News Date | Jun 12, 2009 03:00pm |
| Description | Former President George H.W. Bush defended Judge Sonia Sotomayor on Friday, saying it is “not right” to call President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee a “racist.”
“She was called by somebody a racist once. That’s not right. I mean, that’s not fair,” Bush said in an interview with CNN. “It doesn’t help the process. You're out there name-calling. So let them decide who they want to vote for and get on with it.”
"I don't know her that well, but I think she's had a distinguished record on the bench and she should be entitled to fair hearings,” he said.
Bush spoke with the cable network as part of its coverage of the former president’s tandem jump out of an airplane to celebrate his 85th birthday.
Sotomayor has been called a “racist” and “reverse racist” by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, in reference to her previous statement that a “wise Latina woman” may make better decisions than a white man. Gingrich has since backed off that comment. |
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