{"id":640,"date":"2008-08-17T00:24:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T04:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/?p=640"},"modified":"2008-08-17T00:24:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T04:24:13","slug":"640","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/640","title":{"rendered":"Obama talks down to Clarence Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We risk forgetting that the reason <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/tv\/la-et-jackson11-2008jul11,0,1647731.story\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Jackson wished to castrate Barack Obama<\/a> was because Jackson believes (present tense) that Obama talks down to black people. Obama&#8217;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 &#8220;experience&#8221; 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&#8217; <em>intelligence<\/em> the issue, when compared with the intelligence of, say, that white guy Antonin Scalia.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KfblJvKXiP0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s full frontal assault on the intelligence of Justice Clarence Thomas at the Saddleback &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/640\">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":[19,349,258,469],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-clarence-thomas","tag-rick-warren","tag-saddleback-civil-forum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","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=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}