Let he/she who hasn’t misspoken the same idea many times over a multi-year period cast the first stone. And by the way, that means she expressed the same idea more often than in just 2001 and 1994. Quite a bit more often.

A draft version of a October 2003 speech Sotomayor delivered at Seton Hall University stated, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion.” That is identical to her October 2001 remarks at the University of California, Berkeley that have become the subject of intense criticism by Republican senators and prompted conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh to label her “racist.”

In addition, Sotomayor delivered a series of earlier speeches in which she said “a wise woman” would reach a better decision. She delivered the first of those speeches in Puerto Rico in 1994 and then before the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York in April 1999.

The summary descriptions of speeches Sotomayor provided indicated she delivered remarks similar to the 1994 speech on three other occasions in 1999 and 2000 during two addresses at Yale and one at the City University of New York School of Law.

As Allahpundit says, it would be nice to be capable of expressing more sympathy for her side of the argument. But, as white males, we’re inherently handicapped. So no luck there.

I think this is getting far too much attention for the White House to continue ignoring the fact that only a complete moron (eg. Joe Biden) could repeatedly “misspeak” while expressing the same idea over the span of several years. I for one look forward to the latest spin.