This is a perfect example of a little mini-discussion going on upthread about OBama's answers and how he had to work at saying something while saying nothing.
Do you mean to tell me that of all the justices that Clarence Thomas was the ONLY one that OBama wouldn't have voted for? Yeah, right. Like Obama would have been crushing the gates to vote for Alito or Roberts.
Obama said Thomas for one reason only. Thomas is black and Obama wanted the world to know that while he-Obama-is black, he isn't "black" like Clarence Thomas is.
It was a perfect example of Obama pulling an answer out of the air that would say nothing. Hell he couldn't even name one thing Thomas did that so enraged him.
Not that he knews, his constitutional expert self.
Obama is really uninformed and ignorant. I doubt he has read one of Justice Thomas’s opinions.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/07/justice-thomas-.html
This probably offended Obama and his sense of fairness bordering on racism to help keep affirmative action.