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FatDomDaddy -> Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/30/2011 7:28:41 PM)
The American Left has been mocking and trying to destroy Thomas for years. Thomas seems to be getting the last laugh. http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/08/28/new-blue-nightmare-clarence-thomas-and-the-amendment-of-doom/

FirmhandKY -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/30/2011 7:46:16 PM)
The real problem will come if Thomas can figure out how to get the Tenth Amendment back into constitutional thought in a serious way. The Second Amendment was a constitutional landmine for the left; the Tenth is a nuclear bomb. Damnit, FDD! We pretty much already got the 2nd Amendment back by stealth! Now your going to wake the bastards up that we are on target for the 10th! [8D] Firm

Kirata -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/30/2011 7:52:37 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy The American Left has been mocking and trying to destroy Thomas for years. From the link: If Toobin’s revionist take is correct, (and I defer to his knowledge of the direction of modern constitutional thought) it means that liberal America has spent a generation mocking a Black man as an ignorant fool, even as constitutional scholars stand in growing amazement at the intellectual audacity, philosophical coherence and historical reflection embedded in his judicial work. Quoted for reflection. K.

willbeurdaddy -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/30/2011 7:53:56 PM)
Put "black" and "not liberal" or "female" and "conservative" together and you can drive the lefties crazy.

willbeurdaddy -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/30/2011 8:00:50 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Kirata quote: ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy The American Left has been mocking and trying to destroy Thomas for years. From the link: If Toobin’s revionist take is correct, (and I defer to his knowledge of the direction of modern constitutional thought) it means that liberal America has spent a generation mocking a Black man as an ignorant fool, even as constitutional scholars stand in growing amazement at the intellectual audacity, philosophical coherence and historical reflection embedded in his judicial work. Quoted for reflection. K. "Revisionist" could be misinterpreted without the context of Toobin's left leaning ideology. "Reassesment" would have been a better way to describe Toobin's take.

FatDomDaddy -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/30/2011 9:28:24 PM)
Either way.... Liberal Democrats have been caught flat footed

willbeurdaddy -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/30/2011 9:39:13 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy Either way.... Liberal Democrats have been caught flat footed Possibly, but I think Toobin is attempting to be preemptive rather than actually thinking that there is major risk. I wouldnt be surprised to see the attacks on CT escalate.

rulemylife -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/30/2011 9:52:11 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy The American Left has been mocking and trying to destroy Thomas for years. Thomas seems to be getting the last laugh. http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/08/28/new-blue-nightmare-clarence-thomas-and-the-amendment-of-doom/ Are you fucking kidding me? That is the dumbest link I have ever seen posted here. But at least you gave me a good laugh. This among many other statements in the article: At most liberals have long seen Thomas as the Sancho Panza to Justice Antonin Scalia’s Don Quixote, Tonto to his Lone Ranger.

FatDomDaddy -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/30/2011 10:01:29 PM)
Maybe you should go read Tobin's New Yorker piece

outhere69 -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/30/2011 10:06:48 PM)
Stranger than fiction, and the comments are even stranger. If Thomas did something more than sit there with his eyes shut (he's not said anything for what, 5 years now?) I'd give him more credibility.

FatDomDaddy -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/30/2011 10:10:28 PM)
Wow...there is no way you could have read the link or the New Yorker piece

Kirata -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/30/2011 10:10:35 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rulemylife That is the dumbest link I have ever seen posted here. Unh, help me out here... would that be considered a hit and run insult, or "criticism"? [:D] K.

FatDomDaddy -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/30/2011 10:17:38 PM)
Probably both... Thomas is starting to get serious peer review, peer review outside the political realm, and it is impressively positive... the useful idiots and the bullet point readers do not know what to make of it

rulemylife -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/30/2011 10:17:57 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy Maybe you should go read Tobin's New Yorker piece I did read it. So maybe you can explain this to me. I was taught judges were to be fair and impartial. From the New Yorker: Thomas’s views both reflect and inspire the Tea Party movement, which his wife has helped lead almost since its inception.

FatDomDaddy -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/30/2011 10:23:33 PM)
Exactly how naive are you? And exactly who's definition of fair and impartial do you want to use.

rulemylife -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/30/2011 10:29:23 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Kirata quote: ORIGINAL: rulemylife That is the dumbest link I have ever seen posted here. Unh, help me out here... would that be considered a hit and run insult, or "criticism"? [:D] K. Oh, it's so nice when you realize you need help Kirata. But I'm feeling generous so let me explain that was criticisim. Otherwise I would not have taken the time to explain what I thought to him.

rulemylife -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/30/2011 10:43:23 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy Exactly how naive are you? And exactly who's definition of fair and impartial do you want to use. I want to use the legal definition. And I realize what happens, but it shoudn't be happening.

Kirata -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/30/2011 11:50:30 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rulemylife Otherwise I would not have taken the time to explain what I thought to him. You haven't "explained" bupkis. All you've done is toss out a couple of remarks accompanied by one-line quotations as if you deemed that sufficient for us to draw the connection. Perhaps it would be, if everyone thought the same way you do. But you sure haven't "explained" anything to someone who doesn't. I don't have a clue what you're so exercised about. K.

DomKen -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/31/2011 2:43:24 AM)
FR Toobin's article and the bloggers interpretation of it are odd. The fact is the present courts rulings have little if anything to do with Thomas. He writes few opinions and asks no questions. He usually concurs with whatever Scalia writes (including some dissents where the court goes 7-2 the other way). What the court is experiencing right now is the unfortunate issue with Anthony Kennedy liking being the swing vote. Kennedy's view on the scope of the commerce clause will be what decides the SCOTUS on the ACA not anything to do with Thomas, who has never really staked out novel ground on the issue rather he has swung back and forth in a very partisan manner in his opinions on the commerce clause.

Owner59 -> RE: Clarence Thomas America's Frodo Baggins (8/31/2011 4:58:23 AM)
Ahh the victim card..... Well played.... not. Emmm.... Are there any lefties using made up bull shit smear tactics............like bratfart`s biggovernment did with Shirley Sherrod?Or the new-black-panther bullshit, You righties can`t get through a month without feeling put upon and attacked. Ony it`s not over made up bullshit smears.....but rather the news,events and facts.

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