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May 29, 2009

The Woman Who Saved Baseball

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More great visual pitching from the White House for Sonia Sotomayor (new pics being released day-by-day):

She’s the woman who saved baseball, and what’s more all-American than that? (Not to say Red Sox fans might take exception to certain allegiances.) But then, the most telling element here? No, not the Tigers logo on top of the dugout. It’s the little blue-and-white alert sign (who said Rush Limbaugh?) opposite the nephews.

(11: 25 am PST – slightly edited)

(image: Sotomayor family via The White House via AP. caption: This undated handout photo provided by the White House shows Sonia Sotomayor with her nephews Conner and Corey Sotomayor at Yankee Stadium in New York. Earlier this week, President Barack Obama nominated Sotomayor to the Supreme Court to replace the retiring Justice David Souter)

  • ratfood

    Colder outside than it looks, apparently.

  • Tena

    O the sign is too funny, really.
    Lovely picture and another nail in the coffin of the GOP which is presently tearing itself to pieces over this nomination.
    I especially love John Cornyn – he’s a total assclown and he comes out this morning and squawks that Limbaugh and others are being terrible about Sotomayor.
    O yeah, John, I’m just positive you really feel that way and this has nothing to do with the fact that Texas is an Hispanic majority state. Of course not.
    I’m going to get you out of that senate seat if it’s the last thing I ever do, Cornyn. We’re getting rid of you this time.

  • Tena

    and apparently it takes someone like you to point that out.
    Some women are just built that way. I am. I’m so glad to know it’s the first thing YOU notice.

  • http://www.gongshangfa.com Rhodo Zeb

    Hey Tena:
    Speaking as ’someone like’ ratface, thanks, from the bottom of my heart, for being built that way.
    On another topic, Cornyn is one of the many that need to go.

  • http://profile.typepad.com/kitchenmage kitchenmage

    Damn! Every time I come back to read comments here, hoping that the mouth-breathing men have closed their mouths, there they are drooling, “Tits!”