Redstate.com is calling the SCOTUS pick a distraction from North Korea's latest provocations to the modern world. After North Korea claimed to have detonated a nuke underground and today's test-firing of multiple missiles today, many questions are still lingering about what the Obama Administration will do about this whole mess.
But ya know what? RedState doesn't understand that the Obama Administration has already responded to North Korea. They responded by doing what they were planning to do no matter what; nominate Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States. By doing it now they are denying North Korea of all the attention and self-perceived respect that they wanted.
Okay, so Sonia Sotomayor is obviously a Hell of a lot more than a distraction. She, like the President, was raised by a hard-working widow. She, like the President, worked her way up from the bottom. She is more qualified than any SCOTUS nominee in decades. She also happens to be a woman. She also happens to be a Latina. She also happens to have been previously-nominated to other judgeships by George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. She also happens to have had her announcement moved up(or so I speculate) to hurt North Korea's feelings.
What do bullies want more often than not? Attention and respect. North Korea did everything they could to be the top story in the United States of America, and they just got knocked off the front-page by a Latina from the Bronx. Take that, puny dictators.