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Friday, May 29, 2009 5:34 PM
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Hanna Rosin
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said today that the president would say that Sotomayor's word choice in her suddenly-infamous Berkeley speech
was "poor." It's maddening that the White House is now taking this
line. Maybe they mean to take the air out of it, but I bet it will
accomplish the opposite, and give everyone license to talk about it
again all weekend. This was a published speech, after all, not an off-the-cuff remark, and presumably the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal allows authors to edit copy, like everyone else.
It wasn't the best choice of words, but I would downgrade that to
"poor" only because it is likely to be taken out of context when, eight
years later, she is nominated for the Supreme Court. As we have hashed
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