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Obama talks down to Clarence Thomas

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We risk forgetting that the reason Jesse Jackson wished to castrate Barack Obama was because Jackson believes (present tense) that Obama talks down to black people. Obama’s full frontal assault on the intelligence of Justice Clarence Thomas at the Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency is a case in point. Listen carefully in the following YouTube clip and you will hear Obama catch himself just before he accuses Thomas of not having the “experience” necessary (at the time of his nomination) to be a Supreme Court Justice. Realizing that he himself has less experience now than Clarence Thomas had at the time of his nomination, Obama quickly changes directions and makes Thomas’ intelligence the issue, when compared with the intelligence of, say, that white guy Antonin Scalia.

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Obama’s hubris at Saddleback

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Carol Platt Liebau over at the Townhall.com blog made an interesting observation about the irony of Barack Obama denying Justice Clarence Thomas a seat on the Supreme Court because he lacked experience:

Irony alert:  As Amanda (Carpenter) notes below, Barack Obama tells Rick Warren that he wouldn’t have nominated Justice Thomas to the Supreme Court because he wasn’t prepared.

Well, check out his bio: Among other distinctions, Justice Thomas served as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1982 until 1990, when he was nominated to the DC Circuit by President George HW Bush.  He was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1991. 
Yet according to Barack, Justice Thomas wasn’t prepared to serve as one of nine justices despite working for Senator Danforth, as an attorney at Monsanto, and in federal service for nine years as the head of a federal agency (a federal government tenure three times as long as Obama’s).  Yet we’re to believe that Barack considers himself prepared to serve as the one and only President and leader of the free world after three paltry years in the US Senate (along with part time service in the state legislature)?

Wow.  That’s hubris.