Daughter of PR Becomes Justice in America!

[Stingo]

Everything is possible in America, even the daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants being named to a seat on the United States Supreme Court. Forget for a moment the attacks the Republicans will launch against Sotomayor, who in many ways embodies the American ideal. Let us instead celebrate with that song from West Side Story, “America.” any bets on whether the Broadway show will get some new lyrics this week?

http://allspinzone.com/wp/2009/05/26/daughter-of-pr-becomes-justice-in-america/

[MineralMan]

1. Puerto Rican Immigrants?

WTF? Morons.

Over at the freeper site, they're calling her a lesbian and saying she's ugly. More morons.

[Stingo]

3. Technically they were not immigrants

But Puerto Ricans were certainly treated as such historically.

[MineralMan]

6. Only by morons are they treated as immigrants.

But morons abound.

[MADem]

8. If her parents arrived on our shores before the Spanish American War, then they were immigrants.

PR didn't become a territory until AFTER that conflict. Anyone arriving after that war was a citizen.

However, that said, her parents would have had to have been AMAZINGLY long-lived (and astoundingly fertile in VERY old age) to have managed that trick, eh?

The SA War happened, what, in 1898???

Whoever is hauling out the "immigrant" word is just, er, dumb.

[MineralMan]

9. My maternal grandfather fought in the SA War,

but he's been dead for decades, now.

I DEMAND TO SEE HER BIRTH CERTIFICATE TODAY!

Morons Abound.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Puerto Rican immigrants?

Last I checked, Puerto Ricans were Americans.

[bemildred]

4. Shhhh. nt

[Dr.Phool]

5. Don't tell Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite (R-Obviously) that.

She says they're illegal immigrants.

[katmondoo]

7. I still hate Ginny Brown-Waite

A truly hateful Republican Rep for Central Florida.