Cinderella Supreme

Every day Obama reveals himself to be more of a divider, causing rifts where no rift need be, and opening rifts that do exist into chasms of discontent.

The latest example is Obama's shilling of the soon-to-be-vacated Supreme Court seat as a kind of Cinderella's glass slipper, available to that special woman eager to dance to his tune, particularly if he can leverage the Court appointment with an appeal to Hispanics.

How about a little class, please, such as was exhibited by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor when she said, "A wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases."

Sonia Sotomayor went out of her way to go on record as "disagreeing" with that comment. "I would hope," she stated, "that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."

Now that's a divisive statement.

Particularly for someone whose job is interpreting the U.S. Constitution.

That statement definitely was not designed to calm the roiling waters of discontent over illegal immigration; it contains no word of comfort for those invested in American, not Latin American, culture; it offers no crumb of hope for those who desire strict adherence to the Constitution as it was written.

Nope. The coveted prize of a seat on the Supreme Court should go to a self-expressive Latina who spent her young years sweeping out fireplaces at Princeton and Yale, garnering insights into the law unavailable to colleagues who didn't have access to "the richness" of the experiences of Latinas because they weren't Latinas. They were everybody elses whose experiences were, by her definition, impoverished.

Too bad Eva Peron and Joan Baez weren't available to write the U.S. Constitution. We all know how much better it would have been.

But never fear. We can depend on Sonia Sotomayor to set policies from the Bench that the Founding Fathers used all their knowledge and skills to prevent.

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