{"id":3834,"date":"2008-08-19T00:32:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T00:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3834"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:06:00","slug":"more-on-the-saddlebrook-church-values-forum-about-mccain-and-obamas-answers-to-a-question-about-supreme-court-justices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3834","title":{"rendered":"More on the Saddlebrook Church “Values Forum” about McCain and Obama’s answers to a question about Supreme Court justices"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted about the Forum earlier here Tom Faranda's Folly: Interesting column on this past weekend Saddlebrook Church "Values Forum" with McCain and Obama question…<\/font><\/a> but I didn't watch it myself.<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal<\/strong> had an editorial yesterday, about Obama's dissing and slighting of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. There are seven paragraphs; and it's worth hitting the link to read the whole thing. With the WSJ you sometimes have to hit the link three or four times before you get through.<\/p>\n

Obama on Clarence Thomas – WSJ.com<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

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Pastor Rick Warren asked each Presidential candidate which Justices he would not<\/em> have nominated. Mr. McCain said, "with all due respect" the four most liberal sitting Justices because of his different judicial philosophy.<\/p>\n

Mr. Obama took a lower road, replying first that "that's a good one," and then adding that "I would not have nominated Clarence Thomas. I don't think that he, I don't think that he was a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation. Setting aside the fact that I profoundly disagree with his interpretation of a lot of the Constitution." The Democrat added that he also wouldn't have appointed Antonin Scalia, and perhaps not John Roberts, though he assured the audience that at least they<\/em> were smart enough for the job.<\/p>\n

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Even more troubling is what the Illinois Democrat's answer betrays about his political habits of mind. Asked a question he didn't expect at a rare unscripted event, the rookie candidate didn't merely say he disagreed with Justice Thomas. Instead, he instinctively reverted to the leftwing clich\u00e9 that the Court's black conservative isn't up to the job while his white conservative colleagues are.<\/p>\n

So much for civility in politics and bringing people together. And no wonder Mr. Obama's advisers have refused invitations for more such open forums, preferring to keep him in front of a teleprompter, where he won't let slip what he really believes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I posted about the Forum earlier here Tom Faranda's Folly: Interesting column on this past weekend Saddlebrook Church "Values Forum" with McCain and Obama question… but I didn't watch it myself. The Wall Street Journal had an editorial yesterday, about Obama's dissing and slighting of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. There are seven paragraphs; and it's worth hitting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9245,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions\/9245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}