{"id":637,"date":"2008-08-17T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T04:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/?p=637"},"modified":"2008-08-17T00:00:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T04:00:21","slug":"obamas-hubris-at-saddleback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/obamas-hubris-at-saddleback","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s hubris at Saddleback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolliebau.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carol Platt Liebau<\/a> over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">Townhall.com blog<\/a> made an interesting observation about the irony of Barack Obama denying Justice Clarence Thomas a seat on the Supreme Court because he lacked experience:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Irony alert:\u00a0 As Amanda (Carpenter)\u00a0notes below, <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/blog\/g\/1ee86da2-6286-4537-980d-73c3506f5c6e\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama tells Rick Warren that he wouldn&#8217;t have nominated Justice Thomas to the Supreme Court because he wasn&#8217;t prepared.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 He was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1991.\u00a0<br \/>\nYet according to Barack,\u00a0Justice Thomas wasn&#8217;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&#8217;s).\u00a0\u00a0Yet we&#8217;re to believe that Barack considers himself prepared to serve as the one and only\u00a0President and leader of the free world after three paltry years in the US Senate (along with part time service in the state legislature)?<\/p>\n<p>Wow.\u00a0 <em>That&#8217;s <\/em>hubris.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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:\u00a0 As Amanda (Carpenter)\u00a0notes below, Barack Obama &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/obamas-hubris-at-saddleback\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,349,469,488],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-clarence-thomas","tag-saddleback-civil-forum","tag-supreme-court"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}