Nuance: Obama almost says Clarence Thomas didn’t have enough experience to serve

hotair.com ^ | August 16, 2008 | Allahpundit

[Free ThinkerNY]

And we know what horrible outcomes can arise when people without experience are placed in positions of great power. InstaGlenn accuses him of actually saying it but that’s not true: Watch him catch himself mid-sentence, the first fateful syllable of the word “experience” already out of his mouth, before he stops short and switches gears by basically calling Thomas a moron instead (at least, “at the time”) — an aspersion reinforced a moment later by the implicit contrast he draws in praising Scalia’s brilliance. A golden gaffe, narrowly avoided. Stay classy, Barry.

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[Free ThinkerNY]

[nesnah]

I hate to be cliche’, Obamalamadingdong, but you are not qualified to shine Clarence Thomas’s shoes.

[HD1200]

To all you McCain doubters out there: If you did not see Pastor Warren’s forum tonight don’t miss watching it! McCain totally BLEW OBAMA AWAY and I am not just exagerating for McCain’s benefit. He was in 150% form and was quick with the answers. So quick that regardless of Obama going first with the same set of questions, McCain had 15 minutes left over and the host joked about having to play a hand of poker to run the clock out. McCain was AWESOME!

[FlashBack]

He said exactly that but not in so many words after he caught himself in midsentence.

[DesScorp]

When mentioning Clarence Thomas, what Obama really wanted to say was “Uncle Tom”.

[Onelifetogive]

Of course, every liberal knows that blacks just aren’t very smart. Scalia and Thomas are not very different in practice. To Obama, Scalia is brilliant, Thomas is a moron. Why is that?

[HD1200]

I have been all over the left wing blogs and they are totally in disarray over this forum tonight with many of them reduced to insisting McCain got the questions ahead of the forum! The best they can come up with is their candidate, Obama, showed he “cared” for America so much more than McCain.

This was a serious WIN for McCain tonight and will reverberate. Obama is TOAST at the debates and that is why his handlers will only allow 3 debates.

[FlashBack]

SaddleBack Good write up here.

[FlashBack]

I have been all over the left wing blogs
Time for a shower I see :)

[modest proposal]

He sure was. I felt like Obama’s interview went on forever and never went anywhere.

McCain was a different story. He actually had ANSWERS lol.

[Rsgood Dsbad]

That’s certainly true.
But also can you imagine a white candidate speaking diparagingly about Justice Thomas’ intelligence, comparing him unfavorably with Justice Scalia? I don’t know which of his genius advisors told him to do that but I think it was DUMMBBB!

[William Tell]

Doesn't Obama claim to be a Professor of Constitutional Law? One need only then compare the legal writings of Obama and Thomas to discern which is the real legal scholar.

Has Obama authored ANYTHING the purports to be legal scholarship? Or is it sufficient that he has "empathy" for the plight of others?

[HD1200]

I could not help wonder who the few in the audience were that would actually clap at an Obama 5 minute rambling cover all bases answer that never should have been more than a yes or no.

[irishjuggler]

I hate to be cliche’, Obamalamadingdong, but you are not qualified to shine Clarence Thomas’s shoes.

Cliche away. You're absolutely right. Let's compare Clarence Thomas' qualifications for Supreme Court Justice to Barry's for President. Thomas: Assistant Attorney General of Missouri, counsel at Monsanto, assistant secretary of the US Department of Education, Director of EEOC, judge on the US Court of Appeals. Has Barry ever held down a real, honest-to-goodness job? Sorry, "community organizer" and professional politician don't cut it.

[ArmyTeach]

Double ditto

[freespirited]

Has Obama authored ANYTHING the purports to be legal scholarship?

Not to my knowledge. When he was editor of the Harvard Law Review, he did not author a single paper of his own. AFAIK, that is truly odd.

I assume it's all part of his MO. Take as few strong stands as possible so people don't know who you really are.

[modest proposal]

I got mesmerized by how shiny his head was. I was almost in a half awake state. haha.

[irishjuggler]

One need only then compare the legal writings of Obama and Thomas to discern which is the real legal scholar.

Hell, even their high school and college transcripts would identify the real scholar. Clarence Thomas was a star student in high school and at Holy Cross while Barry was a "B" student in high school who ended up at third-tier Occidental before latching on to one affirmative action program after another at Columbia and Harvard.

[Dagny&Hank]

Obama would not nominate Scalia or Thomas -- two who voted for our side on the Second Amendment in Heller versus D.C.

Amazingly there are gunowners who will vote for Obama.

[freespirited]

Has Barry ever held down a real, honest-to-goodness job? Sorry, "community organizer" and professional politician don't cut it.

You are not being fair. Barry was a bigtime civil rights lawyer.

Just because no one can find a single case that he has ever argued in court is no reason to wonder what the hey he actually did at the lefty law firm where he practiced...

/sarc

[Petronski]

Barry hasn’t enough experience to loofah my heels, let alone operate the United States of America.

No bigger fraud has run for POTUS since Lyndon Larouche.

[BIGLOOK]

I hate to be cliche’, Obamalamadingdong, but you are not qualified to shine Clarence Thomas’s shoes.

He certainly is!

[ArmyTeach]

Obama answered on an Obama/McCain Q&A the he would nominate Supreme Court justices who decide based on their own opinions rather than on the history and substance of the Constitution. In other words, justices who make it up as they go along.

[mockingbyrd]

oh the irony....Obama criticizing Thomas’ lack of experience.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

McCain won this round. The Liberals will try to spin it as an Obama Victory and that the questions were loaded etc.. But Obama look unfit to serve and McCain looked up to the job. This night is the start beginning of the end for Obama.

[oblomov]

>>Amazingly there are gunowners who will vote for Obama.

They have nothing to worry about, since we all know that the Founders were just talking about using bolt-action rifles for hunting, not using real guns to fight an oppressive regime (like they just finished doing when the Bill of Rights were drafted).

[Dawgreg]

If he hadn’t caught himself in mid stream and blurted it out, would that have been the pot calling the kettle.....dare I say it......black?:).....Judge Thomas has it all over Obami in sense and common sense!

[Mr. Binnacle]

Can’t wait to hear the response from Laura Ingraham who was law clerk for Justice Thomas after she graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law.

[dr_who]

Prime example of a pot calling the kettle ...oh, nevermind...

[Nevermore]

But...but...uh...eh...I...um...
Don't you know that Barry was on Law Review?!!

[XR7]

TODAY: Rev. Rick Warren puts Obama, McCain on the same stage (LIVE thread)
Saturday, August 16, 2008 11:59:35 AM · by XR7 · 2,019 replies · 55,048+ views

[Big Horn]

BO plan to hide under the bed when confronted with world affairs and national defense, will also be used when debating McCain. He would spend more time hiding under the bed than he would in the oval office.

[matthew fuller]

"No bigger fraud has run for POTUS since Lyndon Larouche."

Didn't you forget Je...The Right Reverend Jessie Jackson?

[kitchen]

... Barry was a "B" student in high school ...

He freely admits that his last two years of high school are fuzzy from a self induced drug haze. How did he get those Bs and get accepted to college?

[irishjuggler]

How did he get those Bs and get accepted to college?

(1) Grade inflation. (2) Occidental's standards are low.

[latina4dubya]

To Obama, Scalia is brilliant, Thomas is a moron. Why is that?

that is an excellent question and should be posed to Obama... does he agree more with Justice Scalia's "interpretation of the the Constitution" than with the interpretation of the Constitution by Justice Thomas?" why doesn't anybody ever follow up with ask these questions?

[Arthur McGowan]

Obama has published NOTHING of a professional nature—just his two memoirs. Not even in the Harvard Law Review when he was the “editor.”

[mbennett203]

"They have nothing to worry about, since we all know that the Founders were just talking about using bolt-action rifles for hunting, not using real guns to fight an oppressive regime (like they just finished doing when the Bill of Rights were drafted)."

They won't be laughing when the gun-grabbers go after their "high powered sniper rifle" (their .30-06 scoped deer rifle). For that matter, I doubt their lever action .30-30 would be safe, as they can be used as deer guns as well. If it fires a round big enough to kill a big deer, it can easily kill a person. Ultimately, if it goes bang, they want it out of citizens' hands. I'll never understand the gun owners that don't realize that we're in this together, and the hoplophobes plan the same outcome for us all: disarmament and probably repression.

[GOP Poet]

yep!

[weegee]

He didn’t try calling Clarance Thomas an Uncle Tom and Condi Rice a Thug?

I guess the support from Colon Powell means that the rhetoric we’ve heard for the past 20 years has to be toned down.

[skr]

I would not have nominated, duh, Clarence Thomas, uh, I don’t think that he, uh-uh-uh, I-I-I I don’t think he was an exp...a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation...

I almost thought he might've said "I don't think he was an exc(ellent)", but he definitely said "was an exp...". He may have cut off the word experience, but he merely restated the same thought via "not strong enough...for that elevation."

[Islander7]

".....This was a serious WIN for McCain tonight and will reverberate. Obama is TOAST at the debates and that is why his handlers will only allow 3 debates....."

[the invisib1e hand]

Scalia is your worst ideological nightmare, you lying piece of sh#t.

[texas booster]

I'll look at it tomorrow at work ;’)

But seriously, did Barry really appear with all that Gray in his hair, as I saw on another thread?

He has been the avenging angel, young and strong, and suddenly he gets enough gray to become the old barber that cuts Grandpa's hair?

There has to be a “separated at birth” picture that I'll find.

[Petronski]

Who could forget the Revrund Jassuh?

My only point is that as I understand it, LaRouche has run for POTUS more recently.

[sinanju]

You know the old saying: democrats stand front and center for the right of the people to own double-barreled shotguns and to hunt ducks.

[Clintonfatigued]

Clarence Thomas had more judicial experience than Obama has of executive experience.

[Norman Bates]

Easily the most tasteless moment of the night. Obama really has some downright hatred reserved for conservative blacks.

[Norman Bates]

There will be far fewer after the NRA goes after Obama. They’ll already initially earmarked $15 mil.

[justiceseeker93]

Clarence Thomas had more judicial experience than Obama has of executive experience.

True, but anyone who ever had a judgeship would fit that description, since Obama has no executive experience.

Incidentally, at the time of his appointment to the SCOTUS, Thomas did have nearly a decade of government executive experience under his belt as the chairman of the EEOC under Reagan and Bush 41.