Barack Obama almost said Clarence Thomas wasn’t experienced enough for the Supreme Court. Almost. Of course, Barack Obama is aiming for the highest office in the land with significantly less experience than Thomas had before being nominated for the supreme court. To be clear, what Obama actually said was, “I don’t think that he was exs…a…strong enough jurist or legal thinker…uh…at the time for that elevation, setting aside the fact that I disagree with his interpretations of a lot of the Constitution…uh…I would not nominate justice Scalia although I don’t think there’s any doubt of his intellectual brilliance.” Call me a race baiter but isn’t there a hint of racism here? Notice how he goes out of his way to prove that he doesn’t think that Scalia or other justices he doesn’t like aren’t intelligent. Just the dumb ol’ black guy. There I go race baiting again. I can’t decide if it’s racism or a ridiculous double standard or just antipathy towards a “brother lite” such as Clarence Thomas. It’s probably all of the above. But consider this: Obama could have chosen any member of the Supreme Court, and he picks on the one black guy. If that’s not enough, he then goes on to insult Thomas’s intelligence. If this was anyone except The Chosen One –regardless of their race–that made these comments about anyone else, they would be called racist or at least be pilloried by the media. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would be calling for his head on a platter. And most of it would be deserved.
