Pastor Rick Warren asked each Presidential candidate which Justices he would not<\/em> have nominated…Obama took a lower road, replying first that “that’s a good one,” and then adding that “I would not have nominated Clarence Thomas.<\/p>\nI don’t think that he, I don’t think that he was a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation. Setting aside the fact that I profoundly disagree with his interpretation of a lot of the Constitution.” The Democrat added that he also wouldn’t have appointed Antonin Scalia, and perhaps not John Roberts, though he assured the audience that at least they<\/em> were smart enough for the job.<\/p>\nSo let’s see. By the time he was nominated, Clarence Thomas had worked in the Missouri Attorney General’s office, served as an Assistant Secretary of Education, run the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and sat for a year on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the nation’s second most prominent court. Since his “elevation” to the High Court in 1991, he has also shown himself to be a principled and scholarly jurist.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, as he bids to be America’s Commander in Chief, Mr. Obama isn’t yet four years out of the Illinois state Senate, has never held a hearing of note<\/strong> of his U.S. Senate subcommittee, and had an unremarkable record<\/strong> as both a “community organizer” and law school lecturer. Justice Thomas’s judicial credentials compare favorably to Mr. Obama’s Presidential r\u00e9sum\u00e9 by any measure. And when it comes to rising from difficult circumstances, Justice Thomas’s rural Georgian upbringing makes Mr. Obama’s story look like easy street<\/strong>.<\/p>\nEven more troubling is what the Illinois Democrat’s answer betrays about his political habits of mind. Asked a question he didn’t expect at a rare unscripted event<\/strong>, the rookie candidate didn’t merely say he disagreed with Justice Thomas. Instead, he instinctively reverted to the leftwing clich\u00e9 that the Court’s black conservative isn’t up to the job while his white conservative colleagues are.<\/p>\nSo much for civility in politics and bringing people together. And no wonder Mr. Obama’s advisers have refused invitations for more such open forums, preferring to keep him in front of a teleprompter, where he won’t let slip what he really believes<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAnyone that has read of Justice Thomas’ upbringing and lifelong triumphs knows the ignorance that Obama let loose in his rancid commentary. Furthermore, Thomas, unlike many of his African American contemporaries has chosen not to self-victimize himself with his race, and that probably chaps Obama’s hide.<\/p>\n
Clearly Barack Obama is hiding his true feelings on a host of issues, a glimpse of which has been revealed by his wife’s caustic commentary, subsequently squelched, and the rare occasion when Obama is caught unrehearsed or without his handlers.<\/p>\n
Obama’s\u00a0arrogance smacks of an adolescent who has just been given the keys to Daddy’s car for the first time.<\/p>\n
His overconfidence is just the latest in a growing array of chinks in the armor of his candidacy. More on that<\/em> later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Obama, in yet another gaffe, fails to realize the irony and the future repercussions of his assessment of another government figure not possessing the\u00a0experience or credentials\u00a0to assume\u00a0his or her post. The arrogance is palpable. If he applies his same viewpoint selfward, might he relinquish his presumed nomination? Obama on Clarence Thomas (emphasis mine) Pastor Rick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}