The appointment of Sotomayor could be viewed as a lasting setback to the country and to the legal profession as a whole. The good news could be that as setbacks go, Sotomayor isn't as much as a setback as a character defining instrument for leftist supporters.
Her obvious leftward slant and her rather poor attempts to conceal them have angered even liberal law proffessors that are inclined to support a true unapologetic leftist. Sotomayor is playing to win and get the appointment. As such, she says little, answers in as few words as possible and lets her democrat defenders in congress do most of the talking.
What she is effectively doing, however, is displaying the profound lack of experience, executive ability and character that the Obama administration and Obama himself posess. Even Lindsay Graham succeeded in painting Obama as small for his failure to support an idealogical opponent who was clearly as qualified as some think Sotomayor is for a lesser post than Supreme court justice.
Obama hasn't come out in defense of Sotomayor, I speculate that this is due to a legitimate concern he may have over being linked to some of her more liberal statments.
Time will tell, and the more we know Sotomayor the more we will learn about Obama.
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