Blog Bits | Limited options with North Korea; Sotomayor criticized as 'racist'

SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009

compiled by the BBC's Biodun Iginla

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Limited options

Although President Obama said last week that the United States and its allies would stand up to North Korea, his options are limited. For the response to have a significant impact, China — which supplies about 90 percent of North Korea’s oil and 45 percent of its food — needs to go beyond the strong condemnation it issued. The Clinton and Bush administrations were unsuccessful at getting China to put real pressure on North Korea.

| Phillip Brownlee, blogs.kansas.com/weblog

Barrage of criticism

In 2001, Judge Sonia Sotomayor delivered the Judge Mario G. Olmos Memorial Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she said “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” These comments are prompting a barrage of criticism from conservatives accusing her of being a “reverse racist.”

| Jake Tapper, blogs.abcnews.com

POSTED BY BIODUNIGINLA AT 11:54 PM LABELS: BIODUN IGINLA BBC NEWS. OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, NORTH KOREA, SONIA SOTOMAYOR