June 5, 2009

The Make Believe Sotomayor

By J.C. Arenas
While Democrats have exaggerated her background, burnished her career, and misrepresented her philosophy to seek approval from the court of public opinion, Judge Sonia Sotomayor has been equally misleading about herself. As more of her words from the past begin to surface, it has become apparent that who she really is and who she portrays herself to be aren't the same person. Sotomayor's biography is purported to be one of a deprived and disadvantaged Latina who conquered the odds. A National Journal report raises questions on the extremity of what she claims to have overcome:Judge Sonia Sotomayor said in a 1996 speech at Princeton University's Third World Center (now called the Carl A. Fields Center) that when she arrived at Princeton in 1972 as her high school's valedictorian, "I found out that my Latina background had created difficulties in my writing that I needed to overcome. For example, in Spanish we do not have adjectives. A noun is described with a preposition.... My...(Read Full Article)