Blog Number 4

I read through two articles from politico.com which were both in my opinion very superficial articles targeting Sonia Sotomayor. The two articles i read are Sotomayor hits the jackpot by Josh Gerstein and For a justice, Sonia Sotomayor is low on dough by Josh Gerstein http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/23055.html http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/23045.html#ixzz0GqsxXu7S&A
I read both of these articles not to be an over achiever but because i was surprised how many articles were targeting the fact that she was a normal person with a normal not outstanding salary. With everything else that she stand for such as campaign financing for example. Also this surprises me (kinda) because she has the the merit to be appointed. When watching the video if i got nothing else from it i found out that Sonia Sotomayor has experience (very much reiterated). She has been through nearly every judicial position, graduated from princeton for her undergrad and Yale law school, and has at least 30 years of experience.

Putting aside her merit it is clear that Sonia Sotomayor has overcome adversity in order to be where she is today. Not to forget that she is Latina and in the media's eyes poor. this means of course that she will only be representing the poor, Latino, and democratic people right??? that is what it seems the media and political people seem to believe. although it seems that this is what is going to happen and as Newt Gingrich states, "she's racist" its just another type of diversity on the supreme court just as the black man on the supreme court is an extreme republican. it seems as though they are going to try to find anything at all wrong with her because they didn't get an extreme republican placed on the court.

Overall i get a very negative vibe from the people in the articles that i have read. when you only focus in on a small thing such as someones income and don't even mention her merit or achievements it seems as though you really don't have anything good to say about a person. I understand that the republicans are not all that happy because one she is a "democrat" and two because she is Latina, and that is a large source of their votes. due to this it just makes me believe that they are going to pick on her until she does something that they may agree with. although that may not be true, i fee like no matter what Obama did, he would have been under scrutiny because it was one of his first large moves.