Is this just 0bama miss leading us again ?

[chepito]

It's obvious that this family brags about being poor and they actually weren't, and from the looks of it don't care about the poor either.

In speeches, Sotomayor has harkened back to her and her brother's beginnings in a poor Bronx neighborhood, roots that President Barack Obama highlighted in introducing her this week.

"Born in the South Bronx, she was raised in a housing project," Obama said. "And even as she has accomplished so much in her life, she has never forgotten where she began, never lost touch with the community that supported her."

Yet Sotomayor did not live her entire childhood in a housing project in the South Bronx — she spent most of her teenage years in a middle-class neighborhood, attending private school and winning scholarships to Princeton and then Yale.

And Sotomayor's life and lifestyle after law school largely resemble the background of many lawyers who rise to powerful positions in Washington.

She climbed her way up through New York's Democratic power structure boosted by its ultimate brokers over those years — Gov. Mario Cuomo, Mayor Ed Koch, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. That's the access of a partner in a corporate law firm, not a kid from the South Bronx.

She now earns more than $200,000 a year and owns a condominium in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood of million-dollar-plus homes. Her brother, Dr. Juan Sotomayor, is a physician in North Syracuse, N.Y., whose practice doesn't accept Medicaid or Medicare — programs for the poor and elderly — according to its Web site.

[pascoe69]

I don't know what you mean by "miss leading" but the information from the White House concerning Sotomayor's background was correct. Her family moved from the housing project in the South Bronx to Co-op City in the northern Bronx, which was subsidized housing. She attended parochial school.

Lawyers who become judges are politically connected, as were all of the current justices on the Supreme Court. She worked her way up and that is a laudable background.

Stop trying to belittle her accomplishments and criticize President Obama by trying to find misrepresentations where none exist.

[koltin]

I don't know what you mean by "miss leading" but the information from the White House concerning Sotomayor's background was correct. Her family moved from the housing project in the South Bronx to Co-op City in the northern Bronx, which was subsidized housing. She attended parochial school.

Lawyers who become judges are politically connected, as were all of the current justices on the Supreme Court. She worked her way up and that is a laudable background.

Stop trying to belittle her accomplishments and criticize President Obama by trying to find misrepresentations where none exist.

no Obama is not MISLEADING you

[aingeni]

Nothing misleading about it. She was a poor urban Latina who made good. It's a great American story.

[tim]

No, it's your inability to process logic that creates the illusion that you are being misled (I often wonder why this failure doesn't occur when Bush Limpball's or any other neo-con spews their BS so I figure you simply prefer BS over facts.).

[eddis]

Good news! They've diagnosed your condition, and now treatment can begin. As it turns out, Bitterness really IS a Mental condition!

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-bitterness25-2009may25,0,4544029.story

[honi]

Who is Miss Leading? She isn't mentioned in the article.

[boynton35]

OBAMA TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT HER
OK, SO SHE BECAME A SUCCESS.
LIKE SHE SAID, SHE NEVER FORGETS WHERE SHE CAME FROM, SO WHAT IS YOUR POINT?

[vipponah]

Jealous?

[siwili]

She has achieved much. If she was still living in the projects, you would be calling her a liberal loser that will get nowhere because she is unwilling to work for it. Now because she has done so well, she is a liberal loser because she didn't stay in the projects.