Posted on 03/04/2007 7:04:09 PM PST by kellynla
Well, if he is, it's certainly an honor to be associated with him, even indirectly! I am so thankful to have a man with his convictions and talents on the SCOTUS.
Frankly, I was really hoping that President Bush would appoint Justice Thomas as the Chief Justice.
Mark
Justice Thomas has long been my favorite jurist.
Can't blame Clarence Thomas at all. The media and many on the left have told countless lies about him. It is so completely undeserved.
Ping
I'm with Justice Thomas. I hate the MSM too...
Ditto!
That is a good question. I was wondering why to.
What a fine and decent man.
Brushes with greatness, Clarence Thomas
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a26dc3333ab.htm
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Speaks
Justice Thomas talks about the lasting influence of the man who guided him through his years at Holy Cross and why he's not a beneficiary of affirmative action
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_11/b4025080.htm
>>"That was the creation of the politicians, the people with a lot of mouth and nothing to say, and your industry," Thomas told Business Week. "Everything becomes affirmative action."
The real story, Thomas says, is that a nun suggested Holy Cross to him. <<
I certainly don't blame him for not giving interviews.
And it the media repeated false information without verifying they are to blame.
But it sounds like there were other actors here too.
I'm just guessing but I wouldn't be surprised if the politicians he refers to didn't like the idea of a conservative black man being appointed to that slot.
BTW, I wonder what Anita Hill is doing these days... That was a well executed Borking - If Thomas had not used the phrase "hight tech lynching" with such force it might have worked.
The one thing he cannot change; it ought not be remembered as an agent of change.
Why must this man always answer for what he seems to be rather than what he fully believes and has determined to be?
I await the day when the first Black, African-American, Negro, Person of Color attains the exalted position of "just plain Joe", a true American.
The law, in all its representations has become overly ponderous, too superficial and casual, sympathetically resonating with its time; lost between principle and purpose it is overdue for a bit of reflective inertia.
BUMP!
We need to relearn how to listen with our ears rather than our eyes.
Justice Thomas: The best we've got.
It was shameful the way the racist democrats and media tried to "lynch" this man on TV.
It was a beautiful thing to watch him massacre all those lightweights on CSPAN and expose them in front of America.
Justice Thomas if you are here...welcome to FR!
Me too. I met him last summer. Easily the most impressive man involved in public life I've ever met. Not even close.
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