Posted on 08/17/2008 8:33:22 AM PDT by rightcoast
In the two stories below on Rick Warren's Saddleback Church forum, Sen. Barack Obama made two striking comments.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/16/warren.forum/index.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-saddleback17-2008aug17,0,2051277.story
When asked which Supreme Court justice he would not have nominated, Obama's answer was: Clarence Thomas. Says Obama, "I don't think he was a strong enough jurist or a legal thinker at that time for that. I profoundly disagree with his interpretation [of the Constitution]."
This is another way of saying that, in Obama's view, Thomas wasn't up to the job, and didn't have the experience or qualifications necessary for that high position. So, now... experience does matter?
When asked to define when a baby gets human rights, Obama said that the question is "above my pay grade".
So, either Obama is saying experience matters, but that he doesn't want to make the tough calls, or (and this might be frighteningly accurate) he would prefer to abdicate his responsibility on the really big moral issues to the Supreme Court, where experience really does matter.
Note to self. Do not pass on statements without checking them out first. :-(
Middle class conservative blacks are a very small minority, unfortunately.
Since you can’t provide other evidence, I’ll assume the Pew guys are more or less accurate.
Thomas is one of the least popular blacks in America, among his own people. Attacking him is a political positive for Obama with black people, not a negative.
No problem. There’s a contingent of Warren haters on this board who say the strangest things!
He was my pastor for several years, so I have a slightly different perspective.
Yesterday I heard part of his live appearance and he was praising how generous the American people were.
You would think that by now Team Obama would have come up with an answer to the abortion question that would have been honest AND made him look diplomatic. I mean, this was a Church forum...what did they think he was going to be asked? Public opinion would have been better if he just said what he thought, decisively and directly, regardless of how it went against the audience. Everyone there knew his stand on abotion. Doesn’t make sense.
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