Graham on Sotomayor: ‘There is a character problem. There is a temperament problem.’
Graham on Sotomayor: ‘There is a character problem. There is a temperament problem.’
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) met with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor today and during a press conference after the meeting, Graham didn’t hold back. “I was very direct,” he said. “I have to decide how to play this game, quite frankly. If I use the same standard that Sen. [Barack] Obama used, then I would not vote for you, quite frankly.” And while many congressional Republicans have refrained from participating in conservative attacks on Sotomayor, Graham joined in:
In his post-meeting news conference Graham also raised questions about Sotomayor’s temperament. He said that while she was friendly in the meeting, he could not simply ignore reports of her fiery attitude.
“I believe she does have the intellectual capacity, but there is a character problem, there is a temperament problem,” he said.
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“there is a character problem, there is a temperament problem,”
The problem, sir, lies within yourself.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:05 pmand what would that character problem be Lindsissy? If you can’t be more specific, then we’re left to assume that the only character problem here is that you feel the need to engage in character assassination…
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:05 pmDidn’t Graham endorse McCain for POTUS?
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:06 pmNO TEMPERAMENT PROBLEM THERE! Yeah, right!
Being a Republican, he has a big credibility problem.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:06 pmThe same party that had a Vice President tell a US Senator to “Go F**k Yourself” has the nerve to raise issues of temperament?
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:07 pmGraham is a sexist pig. Sotomayor’s so-called “temperment” problem wouldn’t be a problem if she were a man.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:07 pmGraham wouldn’t know character if it bit him on the arse.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:07 pmYes, qualification for SCOTUS should always be based on an even temperament. Sweet and gentle like Scalia, warm and fuzzy like Thomas, honest and empathetic like Robert.
Lil Lindsay doesn’t even seem to realize how sexist his perceptions and comments are.
PEACE
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:08 pmLindsley Girl, the problem lies within your limited brain space. How did you keep your job after your days on the campaign trail with John McShame & SarahPpalien?
I think somebody needs to help you retire very soon.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:08 pm.
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June 3rd, 2009 at 3:08 pmI assume that by “temperament problem”, Lindsay means that “she’s not right-wing enough”.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:08 pmA “temperament problem“? Really?
That is interesting coming from Mr. Graham who backed John “Never-Looses-His-Temper” McCain lovingly during the presidential campaign, no?
Right-wing hypocrisy knows no bounds. Actually it’s their party’s legal tender and they are flush with it!
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:08 pmWow, he finally got something right…snark snark snark…
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:09 pmWhen a woman is assertive, it is said she has a “temperament problem”.
When a man is assertive, it is said he shows leadership.
Conservatives don’t like assertive, independent women. The idea scares them -this is why they have to point at the Bible and go “See? It says right here God wants you to submit to me!”.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:10 pmYes, she actually has integrity, which Repubs can’t possible understand.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:11 pmIf Barack Obama had nominated Mary the Mother of Jesus for the Supreme Court, Graham would find something wrong with her.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:12 pm(I know, her skin is too dark or something…) There is not one good reason not to confirm her. They say no just so they can whine about something.
oh, those fiery latinas! ju just never know when they’re gonna blow!
linsthey! ju got some splainin’ to do!
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:12 pmOMG, a human being on the Supreme Court? What shall the world come to? The Republican Party needs to keep up their attacks on everything. They’re doing a fine job of cutting their legs off.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:13 pmralph the wonder locust Says:
I assume that by “temperament problem”, Lindsay means that “she’s not right-wing enough”.
I doubt he ever complained about “temperament problems” with Ted Stevens. Or McCain. . . or Clarence Thomas.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:15 pmshe is too opinionated. colored women should watch their tongues. that’s what he’s saying.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:16 pmCharacter is the issue for this closeted gay man? Why doesn’t he come out and tell us who he really is?
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:17 pmWhat is with all the pay back whining about Obama voting against Alito and Roberts. They act like he was required to vote for their toadies.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:19 pm“Character” is just cover for personal attacks.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:19 pmSince we’re all about some context, here’s full quote
Could have been worse – at least he gave her the intellect. But “character and temperament” are BS. Her character and temperament are just fine. Regarding being an advocate, there’s nothing in her record that suggests she engages in judicial advocacy of any kind. Sounds like he’s fence-sitting; saying negative things about her but not so negative that he’d have to actually stick his neck out and oppose her in hearing.
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ralph the wonder locust Says:
I assume that by “temperament problem”, Lindsay means that “she’s not right-wing enough”.
No, what he means is that people with ovaries should not be tough or level-headed.
If Sotomayor was a guy, this whole business about lawyers complaining she was mean to them would be viewed solely in a positive light. Don’t we want judges who are tough on the lawyers who come before them, who expect well-reasoned legal arguments and who cut people off if they’re spinning?
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:22 pmWhat a hack Graham is these days…EVERYTHING that he said about the nominee can be said, with emphasis, about HIM!!!
The sooner this jackass gets put back on the farm back in Carolina the better.. If he needs a part time job, have him re-build the new scum pool at chimpy’s pig farm in crawford….
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:26 pmWhat is this “character problem”? I looked at all the links and couldn’t find anywhere that Graham gave any evidence of a genuine character problem with Sotomayor, so I’m assuming that he just spewed out that accusation like a fart in hopes that the stench would linger. Hey, it’s all you can do when you have nothing of substance.
I’d also like to hear some specific examples of Sotomayor’s alleged “temperament problem”, too. All I’ve heard so far are rumors of “reports from lawyers” — which really tells me nothing (kind of like the ever-popular “they say” source). Are these lawyers whom she ruled against? Are these lawyers with some other axe to grind? How many lawyers are we talking about? What about other justices she’s worked with?
Would Graham be as “troubled” about Sotomayor’s character and/or temperament if she was a conservative appointed by a Republican President? I doubt it — he is just trying to justify his opposition to an Obama appointee purely because she’s an Obama appointee.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:29 pmIt so past time to get rid of these old, white good ole boys clubs up in Washington. We need fresh ideas, progressive thinking !!!!
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:29 pmole lispy graham is questioning someone’s character?
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:33 pmi think i have just witnessed the definition of irony taking place right before my very eyes
The scotus blog conducted an analysis of Sotomayor’s record on the Court of Appeals with regard to race and found that, out of 96 cases, she rejected claims of discrimination by a margin of roughly 8 to 1.
This is hardly the record of an emotional, reverse-racist advocate.
http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/judge-sotomayor-and-race-results-from-the-full-data-set/
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:34 pmHe’s only objecting her fiery Latin heritage and her unpredictable female hormones. Nothing bigoted about that.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:35 pmThe Borgen Project has some good info on the cost of addressing global poverty.
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Does any republican at this point understand what having character means? Doesn’t appear so since Graham is saying Sotomayor has none.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:37 pmOh, atsegga, you better scram. dbadass is gonna be looking for you…
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:39 pmI have to decide how to play this game, quite frankly.
It’s too bad that people like Graham think that appointing a SC Justice is a “game” and not their duty as legislators.
…but there is a character problem, there is a temperament problem..
Unfortunately for the GOP the people who think she has a character or temperament problem won’t allow their names to be published. They are all anonymous. And then you have the clerks who have worked with her through her years as a judge and they all love her and think she would make a great SC Justice. Personally I will believe the people who don’t have to remain anonymous over those who do.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:39 pmLuckily she will be confirmed, all this drama is just posturing by repunklican males, showing off their plummage to impress the crowd in the “big tent”. ‘elloo..’elloooo..’ellooooo, hmmm the big tent seems kinda empty
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:41 pmHmmmmmmmm? Character and temperament problems- reminds me of how the GOP tried to make Michelle Obama out to be an “angry black woman” this time last year. Yep yep yep to the GOP, strong smart minority = angry women with temperament problems. Have they taken a good look at their own republican women and their temperament problems-that Michelle Bachmann has character and attitude issues- what a nut
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:44 pmAs a gay man, I have to say that Miss Lindsey’s suppression of his own sexual orientation and all of the psychological/emotional damage which accompanies such denial is a FAR more serious issue than any “character” or “temperament” considerations vis-a-vis Sonia Sotomayor.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:44 pmBullsmith Says:
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:44 pm“He’s only objecting…her unpredictable female hormones”
something tells me girlfriend graham can relate.
even if it were true (it’s not), I’ll take temperment problems over the GOP and their honesty problems, competency problems, intellectual problems, and fortitude problems anyday.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:45 pmEarth to Sen. Graham, Latino culture produces people with “fiery attitudes”. Just take a look at the Manager of the Chicago White Sox. This charge by Graham is borderline racist — something that comes rather easily for people from South Carolina. Latino’s will recognize this as racist code words, so who does Graham think he is fooling — his fellow crackers?
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:49 pmI have heard that she was tough. That in bringing a case before her you had to have your $hit together. Don’t we want a justice with a low tolerance for bullsh#t?
Like yours, Senator?
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:51 pmYes, Mister Graham. You do have a temperament and character problem.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:51 pmGee, Miss Lindsey:
You told her in a direct[read rude] way that you weren’t voting for her.
And you consider this important decision on her lifetime ambition to be a game?
And, now, you are whining to the world that she didn’t kiss your prissy ass as a result of this?
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:52 pmNo more labels. “Temperament”, “character issue”, “racist”, and other labels do not inform. Tell us what the person says or does and how that impacts the position they are being considered for. Then, we the people can decide if your support or opposition for the person is warranted…oh, maybe that’s what you are afraid of and therefore avoid.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:52 pmThere definitely is a “character problem.”
Lindsay and his ilk are truly characters. How can they oppose this nomination seriously?
Obama’s choice is brilliant — designed to drive a wedge between the entertainers and the politicians on the right.
I am worried about S’s position on abortion (especially now).
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:55 pmsexual repression leads to perversion
I wouldn’t allow any children to be in a room with Lindsey unsupervised
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:56 pmhe is most likely stuck in 2 week old news about anonymous sources saying she is difficult. If someone does not have the balls to link their name to an accusation I say the accusation is worthless. Ya know … kind of like Lindsay’s opinion – worthless.
Who can trust a man who can not embrace his own sexuality?? He knows there are Log Cabin Republicans … he needs to come out to be their official leader!
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:58 pmI think Graham has a temperament problem – a character problem – and a personality problem. Remaining in the closet has a detrimental effect.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:59 pmHe had no problem sucking up to McCain who clearly has a temperament problem. He had no problem sidling up to Bush who surely had a character problem.
“Temperament” and “character” are nothing but code for
WE ARE SCARED, VERY SCARED, OF NON-NORTHERN EUROPEANS!
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:00 pmWhen Graham publicly admits he’s gay, I may listen to his opinion. Until then, I’ve got to assume that everything he says is colored by the usual filter of the self-hating closeted homophobe.
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misscoleopteramolly Says:
All I’ve heard so far are rumors of “reports from lawyers” — which really tells me nothing (kind of like the ever-popular “they say” source). Are these lawyers whom she ruled against? Are these lawyers with some other axe to grind? How many lawyers are we talking about? What about other justices she’s worked with?
Apparently there’s some website where lawyers can anonymously rate judges. It’s not a bad idea, but one should take it only for what it’s worth, which is not much. Perhaps if a judge had only negative comments, with few or no positive ones, or vice-versa, it might actually say something about the judge in question. But lots of lawyers think Sotomayor’s great and gave her favorable reviews; the R’s just cherry-picked from the negative reviews.
And since when does the GOP love and trust trial lawyers so much? I thought that was one of their go-to scapegoats.
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Bullsmith Says:
He’s only objecting her fiery Latin heritage and her unpredictable female hormones. Nothing bigoted about that.
Yeah, well I object to pasty-faced gap-toothed nose-pickin’ honkies all up in the gubmint. Nothing bigoted about that either, I guess.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:10 pmYes – and they belong to you Graham.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:10 pm*
C’mon Greasy Graham, you didn’t have a problem with McIIIrds notorious temper, nor his multiple (cheat on wife, Keating scandal, etc) character flaws. Why do you have a problem with the person whose gender and ethnicity you don’t share?
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:13 pmSenator, quite clearly the GOP view this as a game, playing for the crowd and not taking their role seriously. But, then it is just a continuation of the GOP overall plan to convince the world that they are idiots.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:21 pmRepublicans like Graham have no honor, no character, none of the qualities they pretend to support. Graham has dishonored America and now he comes out criticizing the character of someone else. Typical hypocrite.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:21 pmFor Republicans, there is a character problem with Judge Sotomayor… she has some.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:32 pmMost Likely to Have Been Beaten Up on the Playground as a Kid: Lindsey Graham
I think Lindsey is still reeling from his smackdown on MTP with Sen. Webb awhile back.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:33 pmwhile she was friendly in the meeting, he could not simply ignore reports of her fiery attitude.
Uh, are the reports at all credible ?
Otherwise, it is a totally unsubstantiated character attack. Kind of like if I said that I couldn’t ignore rumors that you are the seed of a brother-sister wedding.
I don’t know it is true. But I don’t know it isn’t either.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:39 pmAmerican public on Lindsey Graham: “There is a character problem. There is a temperament problem. In addition, Lindsey Graham is a conniving, whining, pathetic idiot.”
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:46 pmI love it that women are often characterized with a personality flaw…
How about judging the judge by her interpretation of the constiution and the rule of law…
No let’s characterize her as a racist and emotional…of course women of color will always be painted with the same broad brush…she is emotional and cannot be objective in ruling on cases involving minorities…
I see the men criticizing her the most are white, male repubs…trying to scare their flocks…it is too bad that there are still people falling for these kind of racist/sexist tactics
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:51 pmShorter Graham Cracka: Judge Sotomayor has an “uppity woman” problem.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:54 pmThese Repub quacks invent all their comments, then can’t even be consistent. They are total losers when it comes to honesty, love of country, or integrity. And we are all so sick of Repubs making comments like “there is a character problem, there is a temperament problem,” with absolutely no facts to back up their lying smears. Sure, their ignorant base likes to hear this, but the vast majority of us will have nothing to do with such baseless smears. Their rants are pathetic.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:02 pmZooey Says:
Shorter Graham Cracka: Judge Sotomayor has an “uppity woman” problem.
“Uppity cull-ed woman” problem.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:03 pmAh’m sure the very ladylike Miz Graham does not believe that females should be ‘pushy’.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:05 pmwtf is this about?
i refuse to click on anything ‘murdoch’, and from the headlines, it seems the WSJ is getting foxier all the time…
Sen Graham Cites Obama Standard In Threat To Oppose Sotomayor
Wall Street Journal – ?1 hour ago?
By Kristina Peterson Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–A prominent conservative Republican Wednesday threatened to oppose Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the US Supreme Court, citing arguments President Obama made as a senator when …
what ‘obama standard’? anyone know?
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:31 pmIn the lingo of his day and social circles, he thinks she’s a b*tch. The word used to be used to a describe a woman who wasn’t submissive. Now it means the opposite.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:33 pm:|
Does he mean with him or her?
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:58 pmLindsey, have you followed Scalia’s temperment? favafungu!!!
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:04 pmJohn McCain has character and temperament issues, but somehow that didn’t bother Senator Graham…
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:11 pmFriendly FYI:
Miss Lindsey appeared on the PBS Newshour tonight re Sonia Sotomayor. Can’t find a link; still looking.
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:19 pmPoor Miss Lindsy just can’t make up his mind….
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:51 pmGraham’s problem with Sotomayor’s character is that she’s not White Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, and his problem with her temperament is that she’s not Male!
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:18 pmDoc Rock Says:
Graham’s problem with Sotomayor’s character is that she’s not White Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, and his problem with her temperament is that she’s not Male!
As Thomas, Rice, Meiers and Gonzales have shown, if a non-white and/or non-male you can be promoted by them provided that you’ve first proven complete loyalty to their white male cause.
Sotomayor has not shown that she’s against it, as they claim, just that she’s not for it. As far as I can tell, she hasn’t shown that she’s politically for or against anything, which is just fine for a judge. Very Souter-like, in fact.
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:54 pmActually, that’s not a contradiction coming from a Republican!! A “sterling character” is antithetical to all things GOP; thus, anyone possessed of a sterling character presents a “character problem” for GOPers.
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:15 pmWell, hey, Liberace, I’d say that YOU have a “character problem” that’s far worse than any Sonia Sotomayor might have…
You’re a colossal HYPOCRITE and LIAR.
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:20 pm“In his post-meeting news conference Graham also raised questions about Sotomayor’s temperament. He said that while she was friendly in the meeting, he could not simply ignore reports of her fiery attitude.
“I believe she does have the intellectual capacity, but there is a character problem, there is a temperament problem,” he said.”
Okay, so Graham met her, reported that she was very friendly, but apparently could dismiss that impression entirely in favor of a few anonymous complaints, and say with apparent certainty that Sotomayor has character and temperament problems.
Yeah…riight.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:42 pm‘There is a character problem. There is a temperament problem.’
There goes Lindsey Graham tooting his own horn again.
Doesn’t it really sound as Lindsey is speaking of himself?
June 4th, 2009 at 3:47 amMs. Sotomayor must be a person of incredible temperment and character to even sit in a room with these losers and put up with their irrelevent questions, particularly after seeing them on the nightly news for weeks spreading dis-information and lies about her. I know if it were me sitting in a room with Lindsey I would have quite a hard time stopping myself from telling him to just STFU allready with the hypocracy and bull shit.
Lindsey is a very confused and innerly troubled man. He probably fantasizes about Sotomayor strapping one on and bending him over, riding him hard while he simultaneously cries and screams for more. She could never give it to him as good as Boehner does, though. He can bang the gong with Lindsey AND make him a proper mint julep afterwards. Ah, the twisted, conflicted lives of Republicans.
June 4th, 2009 at 8:17 amI will, from this point on refer to Mr. Graham solely by the name of his alter-ego “Stingy”. Just so that in future posts anyone is confused as to whom I’m speaking about:
http://lazytown2009.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/stingy1.jpg
June 4th, 2009 at 8:19 amA Patriotic Anopheles Acting Says:
Ms. Sotomayor must be a person of incredible temperment and character to even sit in a room with these losers and put up with their irrelevent questions, particularly after seeing them on the nightly news for weeks spreading dis-information and lies about her.
None of the people spreading smears about her actually sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee. They really have no say in this whatsoever.
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