At the White House press briefing just now, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked by Chip Reid of CBS News about Newt Gingrich’s Twitter comments that a “Latina woman racist” should have to withdraw from a judicial nomination, comparing Sonia Sotomayor to a hypothetical white man saying his background made him a better pick than a Latina.
“I think it is probably important for anybody involved in this debate to be exceedingly careful with the way in which they’ve decided to describe different aspects of this impending nomination,” said Gibbs. “I think we’re satisfied that when the people of America and the people of the Senate get a chance to look at more than just the blog of a former lawmaker, that they’ll come to the same conclusion that the President did.”
