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Part 3 Opinions Run Rampant In The LandRev. Tonie C. Wallace Dream-Founder and Director
May 30, 2009

Dear All One Family:

Again I haven't quite gotten around to posting J.J.'s favorite newspaper editorial...one he called quite good...hmmmm...I found it quite limiting and fear provoking, yet I could be wrong...I will allow all to see both sides of the opinion polls...and please don't forget about all those in between snaps and synapses...I personally like to see myself in the middle...kind of like a watching both sides for either direction...too left, too right, can be limiting vision wise...

I like to call that my neutral place position...just like I like to keep my diet and all other things to a middle or moderate position...for too much of anything can kill a person...you know?

So I try my best to stay out of the way of others that seem to want to go there, in spite of all those things I have tried to show them differently...that would lead to a more relaxed type of lifestyle than the one they were a wanting to choose for themselves...

So to the author of this newspaper editorial published commentary...I want to thank you for the opportunity that your article has offered me as a catalyst for change...for even though I do not agree with you as a whole, I still see your opinions as being necessary in the whole of things and how they seem to be a playing themselves out...

I believe as well, that what I have to say in response to your posting in the editorial opinion page...of our local newspaper...is key and valuable to the whole picture...for not only will I have a chance to put my opinion out there, perhaps it might as well give you another window in which to view things perhaps a bit differently and if not, that is okay as well...just let's agree to disagree and be over it, for I am so over all the Republicans that are still in anguish over the President that I feel God/Jesus and Holy Spirit, intended us to have or why would the election results be so far off the great middle?

Our President received 10 million more votes than the Republican Party...why doesn't that have any value in the whole of things, I don't know, yet I still offered that snippet as one example...

Now on to your posting...I will first post your thoughts and when I break off of your thoughts, it is to go to my own that your thoughts have generated a need to respond...okay?

Again, I am only allowing my thoughts to flow, just as you have your own...so thanks for the opportunity to be able to put my feelings down in such a manner...

Be Blessed Always
Love, Light and Peace
Tonie


D.Z.'s Editorial Opinion PagePresident is lacking.. The president's conduct on his recent trip overseas has convinced me that he is not an adequate representative of the United States.

Tonie's Opinion

Dear Mr. D.Z.:

Right at the get go, I disagree! You find him lacking and I say,"in what category?" For a man in office a little over 100 days and got the excellent report card that he did...and what was it yesterday that the stock market that controls not only United States, yet other world countries economy...rose so high that it a 4 periods back, hike...and that stock market system is based on consumer confidence and if consumer confidence is higher, why such the negativity?

I say chill and stop the negative energy for don't we have enough already? Get over it please...pray if nothing else that our president awaken to all that God/Jesus and Holy Spirit would have him have...please? All those that know what I say to be real, please say Amen sister!

He is so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim World that he has abdicated the responsibilities of the President. He should be representing the citizens of the United States. He is not responsible to the peoples of the other countries. I recent that he goes around the world apologizing for the United States, telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world.


Tonie's response:

Dear Mr. D.Z.:
Please once again allow me to offer up another viewing...with so many hot spots that our president has to handle at this current time...wouldn't it have been more fair had you actually heard the full context of his speech as given us by our news service?

Our president again, I disagree is responsible not only to the American people, yet also to the world...for what happens over there, happens here...or have you not heard of "The Hundredth Monkey Story?"

The speech that I thought I heard, didn't go as you have imagined...I believe what the president was a doing, was a saying in essence, man I don't know what all has transpired before in your dealings with America...

Today is a new day and we need to all be on the same page when it comes to the security of not only your land, yet mine as well...can we work together or not...now if that is to you a sell out...I don't see it as such...yet I could be wrong, yet in the interim as I wait and you wait to see who is right or is wrong...I want to hold a flavor of inner peace and thus just keep on a praying and a believing that one day we will hop out of where we have landed...

The message that I thought I heard D.Z., about our president not a caring what their country's status is...I didn't hear that part and being you are the first to bring me that data...well all I can say is this...I would find it hard to believe because what I get my our president's speeches each time...that he holds our heart interests the whole while...for he knows that when we are happy, all is happy in the land he has chosen to preside over...

For that is what a commander in chief is all about...keep saying over and over in your head, 10 million vote difference between him and Senator McCain...

Does anyone expect an instant miracle and proof? Obviously you and others like yourself do...my goodness, don't tell me you might be one of those types that always has to find something wrong in order to complain about something right?



What does he think the First and Second World Wars were all about? Does he not know the history of the 20th century? Where does he get off telling a Muslim country that the United States does not consider itself a Christian country? Has he not read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution? This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and they remain the principles governing this country. His bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia is an affront to all Americans. Our president does not bow down to anyone. He doesn't show Great Britain, one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve, yet he bows down to the king of Saudi Arabia. How dare he!

Tonie's response:
Dear D.Z.:
Once again I am lost as to what it is that you are a meaning...How can one assume one knows how much history our president has learned...In line up with our president a telling a Muslim country that United States is not a Christian country...I already posted on a different posting...
To summarize: One Nation Under God, is not the same as a Nation under Jesus and Holy Spirit...together a forming the Trinity...

As for the bowing down to a King is not something that brings shame to America, for do you know how the cultures and habits of all lands? If you do, than you would understand that in some lands when one looks into another's eyes, that sometimes means, disrespect given...yet in my cultural upbringing, it means honesty...know what I mean...sometimes that which once seems obvious, might be, yet to others, not...

As for showing Great Britain disrespect, when did that happened? For I saw a totally different picture and to see the Queen of England wrap her arms around Our First Lady's waist...is supposed to be against the Kingdom of England's rules...so I am lost to this trail of thinking...oh well, just call me lost in space...hahahehehe...

He couldn't find the time to visit the graves of our greatest generation because he didn't want to offend the Germans, but he did make time to visit a mosque in Turkey. He offended every veteran when he gave the Germans more respect than the people who saved the German people from themselves. I am convinced that he and members of his administration have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle.
written by D.Z.

Tonie's ResponseThis person lives in the same county as myself...not a neighbor though, thank you God/Jesus and Holy Spirit...

My goodness D.Z.: Again you label our president politically incorrect because he didn't visit the graves of our veterans of past wars...are you sure of that? And if he didn't...can you not imagine how much this man has to waddle through with his mud puddle of a brain?

When our president spoke on Memorial Day, I didn't see the disrespect to our vets of all wars, past, present and current; that you have so judgmentally have thrown at him...yet it is your picture that you are a carrying and if it makes you happy than please by any measure, hold on to it...

Just understand that our nation is under lots of undue stress and hardships and if this type of energy helps you become more than you were yesterday, than celebrate the moment is all that I can say.

Be Blessed All
Love, Light and Peace
Tonie C. Wallace

Opinions Are Like Given Freely By All In America, Home Of The Free And Brave!

Spiritual Ministries Mind Spirit Body Vibrational Medicine Research, Healing and Education Center.
May 30, 2009
Is It Safe To Presume, If My Thoughts Aren't Respected, Than What Divine Channeled Work I Do On Such Assuming Persons:
Doesn't Count In The Present Moment Of Time;
Yet Might One Day Take Root and Sprout?Rev. Tonie C. Wallace Dream-Founder and Director
Jada Stone - Associate Director/Contributing Editor
Part Two -Opinions, Everyone Has Their Own

Dear All One Family:

Again I am just a dropping off a couple more email postings that I received from J.J...and a adding my commentary...as usual.

I will try to not be so wordy, yet as God/Jesus and Holy Spirit leads me, I must comply and if it sometimes seems too much...all that I ask is that you look around you...yes, take your head out of the sand, for you have been a asleep too long and lots of things are a happening...and for those that have their heads still up their tail feathers...checking out and seeing what condition, their condition is in...please also understand, that just because those things I present aren't real to yourself, they are to others paying attention and for right now, it is what it is...I am only giving all my very best and if that is found to be too delusional for yourself, I am sorry...yet, am not really...hahahehehe...I say potato, you say tomato...both in the vegetable grouping, both contain nutritional benefits for most not allergic to it...similar, yet different in different ways...

Anyways to my heroes and heroines that teach our children...I pray that most of all your numbers will not diminish due to our economy woes...for we need each and everyone of you, now and forever!

This little email posting came to me again from J.J., and I just love it! For it speaks of also my own heart for I am a teacher more so that an energetic vibrational medicine body electric research therapist.

My love is in teaching, yet not a full one hands on year instructor...my love is taking the graduated working body works therapist and placing into their hands, the many additions to the job at hand, that I had discovered in the 24 years of hands on practice and vibrational medicine therapists that I personally trained and saw all but a couple out of the 25 students move into the licensing field of our state...

For it was not only my job to take them physiologically, and anatomy board testing ready, I had to also teach them all of the professional skills necessary to eradicate energy blocks and break pathways...recharge them.

Yet I had to stand down when it came to the most important part of the training...The God/Jesus and Holy Spirit connection...for my God Connection Ideology Mission, demanded that I institute it in the work that we were all a trying to do, acting as channels of God/Jesus and Holy Spirit divine Spirit work...

I remember one student of mine very well...it was about the time that I introduced Carolyn Myss's work of "Medical Intuitive," that I hit a road block with this Divine training student...for she had perhaps googled Carolyn and had discovered that in her bio...she was Jewish!

This student due to her popularity with the college dean and such...remember when I told all here...that the area college where I live, fought the introduction of my first college training facility course, of vibration medicine body works therapy training and it took Zenya influences and petition signed by all of my students initiates from my Massage 101 class, in order to have been able to teach it there...

So I wasn't a flying so high in the clouds, when this battle with a long term practicing massage person, without professional training, initiate, decided to lock horns with me and took me to the dean of continuing education...over Carolyn Myss.

So I did become panic filled for a moment, simply because Carolyn Myss's work is so out there for just hands on types of folks...and having to explain such a maneuver as what Carolyn Myss demonstrates...is not impossible for all those that believe, for I am able to do this and more...

So after too many nightmare nights created by my faith and my inability to speak my faith in a profession that if it isn't mentioned than the effects of it on ones clients would also be limited...for that is just how unlimited one begins to imagine when they can state one hundred per cent that they own at least a mustard seed size of faith...one can fly is what I say...in college...The doors of faith are being shut and only allowed in certain sciences classes...and being I was at the time an Ordained Spiritualist Minister...when I taught this year long class...with the college's first graduating class of 1999...I too was told by the dean to drop the mumbo gumbo and stick to the rules... My first verbal warning...

So I know well what it is when one can not bring God/Jesus and Holy Spirit along for the visit...and not being able to opening broad cast that it will be Them that would decide their future as they relaxed and surrender unto God/Jesus and Holy Spirit...so when the 2 year Associate Degree class came into being later the next year, I wasn't allowed the job because I didn't have a Master's Level Degree in which to have done so...even though the teacher they selected to teach the classes, had a masters in science and had only been through massage school for three years and because he taught Chemistry full time, his massage practice took on a sometime thing...

So all in all, I am not all that unhappy I didn't get the teaching job...even though it was my dream and they somehow changed it all a bit...and called it all theirs...it matters not, for it definitely wasn't of God/Jesus or Holy Spirit's design or it would have been a done deal...know what I mean? Yet leaving Them out of it and at home, would have been too ridiculous to entertain...

So again,thank you teachers of all walks of life...for when one takes on a year long teaching mission...oh the walks and talks we have...this is celebration of teachers month...


J.J.'s email posting:After being interviewed by the school administration, the prospective teacher said:
'Let me see if I've got this right.
'You want me to go into that room with all those kids, correct their disruptive behavior, observe them for signs of abuse, monitor their dress habits, censor their T-shirt messages, and instill in them a love for learning.
'You want me to check their backpacks for weapons, wage war on drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, and raise their sense of self esteem and personal pride.
'You want me to teach them patriotism and good citizenship, sportsmanship and fair play, and how to register to vote, balance a checkbook, and apply for a job.
'You want me to check their heads for lice, recognize signs of antisocial behavior, and make sure that they all pass the final exams.
'You also want me to provide them with an equal education regardless of their handicaps, and communicate regularly with their parents in English, Spanish or any other language, by letter, telephone, newsletter, and report card.
'You want me to do all this with a piece of chalk, a blackboard, a bulletin board, a few books, a big smile, and a starting salary that qualifies me for food stamps.
'You want me to do all this and then you tell me. . . I CAN'T PRAY?"

Light, Love and Peace Always
Be Blessed
Tonie

Another Sunset or Day Break?

Spiritual Ministries Mind Spirit Body Vibrational Medicine Research, Healing and Education Center.
May 30, 2009
Religious Talks With One Of My Favorite Jewish Friend

Dear All One Family:

Before I respond to Lucinda's posting...To God/Jesus and Holy Spirit, for you know I feel prompted to, simply because Jada and myself are always doing the help the brother/family out number and because Jada and I both have the same common ground mission; sometimes a group forum mind ideologies are better than just one a plowing through it alone.

So be prepare for that posting to be written.

Religious Talks With Jewish FriendRev. Tonie C. Wallace Dream-Founder and Director

K.P. and I go back to the hospital health center, opening days for both her and I were hard at work there and sort of kind of met and she and her husband are regular clients/friend of mine...perhaps ten or more years worth...

K.P. and my own religious ideas are not a match for she believes in God, yet she isn't totally convinced that Jesus was anything more than a prophet of God...because her and I are not of the same total conviction...on this matter, for I say and believe that Jesus came in the disguise as an ordinary man, He was absolutely not, and was actually God in disguise a coming here to discover why it was that His children were not all He had hoped and wished that they were...

K.P. and my own difference on this was never a problem being I am an Ordained Spiritualist Minister and believe that all are entitled to their own belief systems and being we aren't supposed to haggle over politics and religion...while in a treatment session...this part of the equation was never greater than the whole sum...know what I mean?

What K.P. and I do have as a common ground is that we are both Democrats...with myself an actual Independent being I vote for the best candidate, that I feel lead by God/Jesus and Holy Spirit to vote for...

Anyways K.P.'s last treatment session we both discovered that we were under heavy word and fear attacks by the Republican conservatives that are still mad and fear filled as the devil, because we are in the hands of a Mos elm black president...

She told me that her and her husband were basically clobbered at a elaborate dinner party of eight couples and she told me, "you know I am so happy about getting the president that we have, that I wasn't going to keep my mouth shut, yet I noticed that my husband did a fine job of slip shod ding the edges and saying and committing to nothing..."

I remembered laughing and told her that is what College Professors do...for they know what they know and getting all worked up for nothing isn't going to change things much with those persons that are mind set upon things they are set in stone over...

Her husband I also told her; has learned these things a long long time ago...for holding a light hearted approach to all things, keeps the heart from over working and besides he can see lots of things ahead for us all and knows that some of it perhaps won't be pretty, and thus he is just trying to focus on Now in the moment...for he has learned through the loss of his mother and the failing health of his father...that a moment in time is all we have anyways...good, or bad or indifferent...they are just all the same moments...

I also asked her what does socialism mean to her and does she believe we are moving towards a form of it?

She said basically the same thing as her husband: Government control. We are told what to do and how to do it...In return the government takes care of most of our needs...health care, food, housing...

I asked them both if any country before now has tried the socialistic approach to government and they both stated, Russia and China...and neither found it totally beneficial...

I wonder what it would look like if all could share from the same crock pot?

I don't see how it could work...being we have so many large and powerful corporations and large businesses...yet maybe one day, it might...be an all for one and one for all number/land, yet I won't hold my breath.

I believe that we aren't a headed in that direction at all...perhaps a few tidbits of it, such as socialized medicine...and government owning small portions of big business that they are a helping stay tangent in a declining financial economy...due to declining industries...jobs, escalating health care costs, and our state increasing deficits that are also reaching into the government pot for bail outs...

I say that our president isn't looking to turn us into a socialized country because of just one speech he made about his stand on abortion rights...For he is like myself, I am not for abortions, yet I don't believe that it is a government control needed thing...for how do you make that decision, "a one size fits all thing?"

Were our president into socialized national government land, wouldn't he be wanting this additional government control factor?

So many issues are on the table before our president and yet, we still have those individuals that are so intent on finding what is wrong with the man instead of looking at all the issues before him and having to decide what lives and what dies and why and does it really have to?

Yet on and on so many things are being spoken concerning our president...take for instance the email I received by one of my long term friend and client...supposedly this was taken out of our local newspaper...the editorial section.

When I asked him what he thought of the editorial piece he sent me, he stated that he thought the local neighbor was right on target...and felt it important enough to send on to all of his friends.

I don't know if he noticed or not, I said nothing...for I had this same argument just the day prior and her and I left the conversation with the excuse that her and I were like all the rest of the people in the world...we have our own opinions and I told her that I would rather circulate optimism versus pessimism...for if we all didn't practice this, imagine our children and grand children a growing up in a world of too much fear and hopelessness...and how it would be duplicated in them as well...being our own parents were post depression parents and the residual of that generation can be seen in us as well...

"The sins of the parents a falling down upon six generations," kind of thing...

Just my thoughts a throwing it out there...and because I had already had my talk with this client/friend about our Nation not being founded on Christian principles...just like President Obama spoke to a mentioned leader in this article...

I have my proof and verification in the oaths of the states that were mentioned in another email sent me concerning this same word play email...for if you look at all the oaths that each state took, all state, their state is founded on God principles...there is nothing stating: God/Jesus and Holy Spirit...for it is my interpretation that Scripture demands that in order to reach Our Father, we must first pass through Jesus and Holy Spirit...

I also told this friend that perhaps 37% of our population believe in God/Jesus and Holy Spirit and that approximately 78% believe in God, and that Jewish persons believe in God as well as all the other hundreds of religions that are contained within our own American soil...so there is where those that are Christians and those that are of other religions are differing...One Nation Under God, is not the same as a land that is free due to Jesus Christ a sacrificing His own life so that we could have life and live it more abundantly without the blanket of sins left to us from generations past...

Just a throwing it all out there and a hoping that those caught up in the fear element would stop a looking for the flaws and start a praying that our president will be able to stay in communication with Our Father/Jesus and Holy Spirit and that all the decisions that come to him are of Them.

Yet before I place J.J.'s previous posting...that he is so proud of...I want to place the one that he send me today...thanks, J.J., I just want you to take notice of the fact that when you told me that this was how you felt, I grew quiet and sad at the same time, for you told me that you fell down at the golf course and had to have people help you up because you couldn't do it yourself...

I wonder how much this energy level of yours that is filled with so much fear and hopelessness; is contributing to your weaken status...for in everyone that I work on currently that are caught up in it...look so much older than what they used to...and are not all that strong as before...some are even using more alcohol as a way of sedating themselves excessively...that isn't a very good idea for sugar of all kinds and sources, helps feed a blood system that should be alkaline and helps move it towards a acidic state and acidic blood level states are what contributes to cancer and other immune systems crashes...just a throwing it out there for even fear, worry, anxiety, and especially depression...all help the body move into a higher acidic level...

Yet J.J.: I just love what you posted today and yesterday...

Be Blessed One and All
Love Light and Peace
Tonie

This is something we should all read at least once a week!Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.
It is the most requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to
90 in August, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick.
Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
But the second one is up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie.
Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25 No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years,

will this matter?'

27 Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you
did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's,
we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come.

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.


End of Part One

"New Judge, Looks Good To Me"

Spiritual Ministries Mind Spirit Body Vibrational Medicine Research, Healing and Education Center.
Again Hope Continually Flows Towards A Better World Emerging From The Dust Left Behind
Rev. Tonie C. Wallace Dream-Founder and Director

Dear All One Family:
I just pulled this off the news associate service and wanted all to see it. To some it won't mean much, yet to persons such as myself that believe we are at a 1/2 cup full time of our great land, redevelopment...it brings us hope enough to float a boat...because I agree, who would better know the hard ways of surviving in the land than one like our president, who has walked it...

Just my thoughts a throwing it all out there.
Please take what you need and please do leave the rest...

Be Blessed All
Love, Light and Peace
Tonie

By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer Ben Feller, Associated Press Writer – 18 mins ago
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday personally sought to deflect criticism of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who finds herself under intensifying scrutiny for saying in 2001 that a female Hispanic judge would often reach a better decision than a white male judge. "I'm sure she would have restated it," Obama flatly told NBC News, without indicating how he knew that.

The quote in question from Sotomayor has emerged as a rallying call for conservative critics who fear she will offer opinions from the bench based less on the rule of law and more on her life experience, ethnicity and gender. That issue is likely to play a central role in her Senate confirmation process.

Obama also defended his nominee, saying her message was on target even if her exact wording was not.

"I think that when she's appearing before the Senate committee, in her confirmation process, I think all this nonsense that is being spewed out will be revealed for what it is," Obama said in the broadcast interview, clearly aware of how ethnicity and gender issues are taking hold in the debate.

The president's damage control underscored how the White House is eager to stay on message as the battle to publicly define Sotomayor picks up.

Obama's top spokesman, Robert Gibbs, told reporters about Sotomayor: "I think she'd say that her word choice in 2001 was poor."

Gibbs, however, said he did not hear that from Sotomayor directly. He said he learned it from people who had talked to her, and he did not identify who those people were. Sotomayor herself has made no public statements since her nomination became official Tuesday and was not reachable for comment.

A veteran federal judge, Sotomayor is poised to be the first Hispanic, and the third woman, to serve on the Supreme Court.

She said in 2001: "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." The remark was in the context her saying that "our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging."

Sotomayor's comments came in a lecture, titled "A Latina Judge's Voice," that she gave in 2001 at the law school of the University of California, Berkeley.

After three days of suggesting that reporters and critics should not dwell on one sentence from a speech, the White House had a different message Friday.

"If you look in the entire sweep of the essay that she wrote, what's clear is that she was simply saying that her life experiences will give her information about the struggles and hardships that people are going through, that will make her a good judge," Obama said in the broadcast interview.

Sotomayor appears headed for confirmation, needing a majority vote in a Senate, where Democrats have 59 votes. But beyond the final vote, White House officials are pushing for a smooth confirmation, not one that bogs down them or their nominee. Plus, Obama wants a strong win, not a slim one.

Obama told NBC that part of the job of a Supreme Court justice is to stand in somebody else's shoes and that Sotomayor will do that. "That breadth of experience, that knowledge of how the world works, is part of what we want for a justice who's going be effective," Obama said.

More than one line in the 2001 speech has helped drive the debate over Sotomayor's judgment.

She also said, for example: "Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see."

"My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas in which I am unfamiliar," she said. "I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage."

At the time Sotomayor gave the speech, she was in the same job she is now, a federal appeals court judge. She said then she was reminded daily that her decisions affect people and that she owes them "complete vigilance in checking my assumptions, presumptions and perspectives."

"I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage," she added, "but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate."

In announcing Sotomayor as his choice, Obama said he wanted a judge who would "approach decisions without any particular ideology or agenda, but rather a commitment to impartial justice." But he also called her life experience essential, saying she had an understanding of "how ordinary people live."

Next week, Sotomayor will begin face-to-face meetings with senators as the confirmation process begins to take shape.