As soon as you make a logical argument, David, I’m sure I’ll be able to follow it.

By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer Ben Feller, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday personally sought to deflect criticism of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who finds herself under intensifying scrutiny for saying in 2001 that a female Hispanic judge would often reach a better decision than a white male judge. “I’m sure she would have restated it,” Obama flatly told NBC News, without indicating how he knew that.

Obama also defended his nominee, saying her message was on target even if her exact wording was not.

Obama’s top spokesman, Robert Gibbs, told reporters about Sotomayor: “I think she’d say that her word choice in 2001 was poor.”

Wow, her message was “on target”. And who exactly is the target here?

The truth is that Sotomayor has shown herself to be a mediocre jurist (when you produce her output of work, plus note the number of times her decisions have been reversed by the SCOTUS; a biased if not overt racist, when you produce her verbal and written statements; and someone whose lack of judicial temperment is well known and documented.

It will be worth scrutinizing the reasons and analysis in those reversals. There may be some scathing criticisms in there. And if there are, and if they are undersigned by the “center” justices, so much the better.

And the louder this gets, the better. Now is the time for every voter to learn what is really at stake, and how their vote is shaping the outcome.

And if we can embarass that smug, elitist, ruling-class helot Schumer, so much the better. He’s the third ranking Democrat; having him put his foot in his mouth is almost as good as Biden shooting off his mouth. And he is not immune from challenge, even in New York. If he shows enough contempt for the working stiff, a Colin Powell style RINO could beat him in the general election. I’m not in favor of RINOs, but I’ll take a Colin Powell over a Schumer any day.