Bienvenidos a la Boriqua!!!!

I don’t know if the world was a better place before everyone had the opportunity to have their opinions heard. I guess it’s my fault for reading the comments sections of newspapers. The New York Times is where I go first for my non-sports news, and the breaking news this morning was Obama’s nomination of an illegal immigrant for the Supreme Court. I’m sorry that was Fox News and not the Times (rim shot). Obama nominated U.S. Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the spot on the bench being vacated by Justice Souter. The Times had it up on their website at 8:15 a.m. The experts started filling the comments section at 8:32. There were jokes and shots at the Republicans before then, but the sixth comment is where breaking down the x’s and o’s of the nominee and the other judges on Obama’s short list began. SHUT UP. I’m sure there are people who can comment on whether or not Sotomayor was the best choice among the short list, but I’m also sure that none of these people comment on the New York Times website before 9 a.m. We may see an op-ed from some of them tomorrow in major newspapers. In this day and age we may see a blog post from one of them this afternoon. What we will never see is a comment from one of them with a fake internet name.

History has shown us that judges do what they do when they become Supremes. What I’m taking from this nomination is that Obama is showing, once again, that he’s the best politician there is. Her credentials are impeccable. She rose up out of a Bronx tenement to graduate from Princeton and Yale. Sotomayor was put on the federal bench originally by H.W. She’s considered a moderate. So the only real problem the Republicans can have with her is that she’s a Puerto Rican Catholic Woman. The Republicans have been beating their chests about opposing whoever Obama nominated and now they’re stuck. They can either back down, and alienate their base, or they can rant and rave and further lose women, Hispanics, every other minority, and people with good sense. At some point isn’t this just running up the score. Maybe he wants to make a run at 526 electoral votes.