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Posted on 07/04/2015 4:46:52 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Rush Limbaugh says that while liberals continue to demonize Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, his true character can be seen in a story in Sen. Ted Cruz's new book.
Cruz once was a clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court, and told the story about Thomas Tuesday night on Fox News Channel's "The Kelly File."
In his book, "A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America," GOP presidential hopeful Cruz tells of a young teenage boy who had gotten a chance to visit the court's offices.
Thomas spent two hours talking to the junior high student named Carlos, who, like Thomas, was African American.
Carlos was less impressed with the Supreme Court than he was with Thomas being a Dallas Cowboys fan, Cruz said, including a framed picture he had of himself with quarterback Troy Aikman.
"At the end of two hours, Justice Thomas walked to his desk, and he had on his desk a Super Bowl ticket encased in Lucite that was signed by Emmitt Smith," Cruz said. "He picked it up, he gave it to Carlos. He said, 'Carlos, I'll tell you what. I'm gonna give you this. But I want you to promise me you're gonna get A's in school next year.'"
On his syndicated radio show on Wednesday, Limbaugh played the clip and said the story is indicative of the kind of person Thomas is.
Just like presidential candidate Ben Carson, Thomas is "one of the most decent, finest human beings we have in the country," Limbaugh said. "And yet they're out destroying him, and they've not stopped trying."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
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Ted Cruz Ping! " And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role." Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
So naturally the left despises him.
We do not need a “Kind heart on the Supreme Court.” We seem to have four kind hearts in the Liberal members who will bend over backwards to give away the store. We need hard headed constructionists who will give away NOTHING, but will decide cases on the question of “Is it constitutional?” not on the question of “Is it fair?” That should be the only question that should come to their attention.
Justice Thomas is an honest man that rose up to the most important position in the land. He is very smart and understands the Constitution like nobody’s business.
This infuriates the race baiters to no end.
On the last day, the king will say to him, “good and faithful servant.”
Thomas should be Chief Justice, I’m sickened by the traitor that holds that office now.
Agreed!
“We seem to have four kind hearts in the Liberal members who will bend over backwards to give away the store. “
I know what you’re saying, but I don’t want to propagate the image of the left as ‘kind’ hearts. The left is full of hateful ideologues, including some members of the Supreme Court. If you want to know who has a kind heart, ask yourself who you would trust to babysit your children and to put your children’s welfare before their own. Unfortunately, I’m not sure many politicians fit that criterion.
He preached this message to the people living under Communist tyranny in Poland, in Czechoslovakia, in Nicaragua and in China - "Be not afraid." He preached it to the Africans facing death from marauding tribes and murderous disease - "Be not afraid." And he preached it to us, warning us how easy it is to be trapped in a "culture of death" even in our comfortable, luxurious country - "Be not afraid."
Listen to the truths that lie within your hearts and be not afraid to follow them wherever they may lead. Those three little words hold the power to transform individuals and change the world. They supply the quiet resolve and unvoiced courage necessary to endure the inevitable intimidation.
Today we are not called upon to risk our lives against some monstrous tyranny. America is not a barbarous country. Our people are not oppressed and we face no pressing international threat to our way of life, such as the Soviet Union once posed. Though the war in which we are engaged is cultural, not civil, it tests whether this "nation: conceived in liberty ... can long endure." President Lincoln's words do endure:
It is for us, the living ... to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
The Founders warned us that freedom requires constant vigilance and repeated action. It is said that when asked what sort of government the Founders had created, Benjamin Franklin replied that they had given us "a Republic, if you can keep it." Today, as in the past, we will need a brave "civic virtue," not a timid civility, to keep our republic. So, this evening, I leave you with the simple exhortation: "Be not afraid." God bless you.
conclusion of the Be Not Afraid Speech by Clarence Thomas
American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. - February 13, 2001
Link to a recording of the full speech:
http://publicradio.org/tools/media/player/americanradioworks/features/sayitplain/cthomas
I suggest you read Thomas’ dissent
The logic on THIS forum is so lacking at times. And it is most annoying I must say
And you think the two are mutually exclusive because...???
I'd be hard pressed to think of a time when Justice Thomas didn't exercise sound constitutional jurisprudence in deciding a case. Most of the readers here understand that he can be kind to that young person and hand down constitutional decisions. I find it odd that you are conflicted on this.
Dude, you’re all wrong....liberals are “bleeding hearts” - not really kind hearts at all. They are hateful, hiding behind phony compassion.
On the lack of logic around here sometimes...I agree - in fact I’ll call your annoying, and raise to infuriating....
Has a single, solitary person ever come forth with a story about how B. Hussein Obama helped put an orphan through college, or helped out a hungry family of an unemployed man, or put himself out in any way, shape, manner, or form for anybody?
“Constructionists”?
What Robert Bork was, and Scalia, Thomas, and Alito are, is “originalists.” Originalism is the ONLY way of reading the Constitution and statutes that preserves SELF-GOVERNMENT.
This hasn’t been such a wonderful Fourth of July for me...I’ve had better let’s say. So I’m trying to read to take my mind off of real life, and I stumble upon this thread.
Here is my Clarence Thomas story, humble tho it may be.
My oldest son was playing in a soccer tournament (an hour or so drive from out house). I had ALL four of our sons with me (and PaDad, who coached our daughters team was at another tournament with her). I drove a Ford Expedition at the time (need all they room).
Coming back from back from our son’s game, I pulled into a Sheetz convenience store/gas station on Route 22 near New Alexandria, Pa. At the gas pump opposite mine was a massive RV with a very distinguished AfAm man pumping gas into it. My oldest boy wanted a Slushie and while I was pumping gas into my own behemoth vehicle, he was dispatched into the Sheetz store to buy the icy drinks for him and two brothers (youngest was a baby). Oldest brought back a multi colored drink for himself (he layered the Slushie flavors for his drink and gave the other two mono flavored beverages). The quarreling ensued between the boys—the power windows kept going up and down w/the complaints being yelled at me. The nice man next to me was done filling his RV and couldn’t help but laugh at the goings on my side of the fuel island. He told “you’ll laugh about those boys antics some day, maybe not tomorrow, but some day.” He made me laugh and as we exchanged pleasantries I remember thinking “he looks so familiar.”
Years later I read here on FR that Justice Thomas (and his wife) travel the country a lot of summers in their RV. I knew then that the nice man who laughed at Slushie layers deprived little boys whines and complaints had to be Justice Thomas. And let’s face it, working around lawyers all his life he could appreciate stupid, immature arguing!
Has not a lot to do w/the topic, but I just wanted to share my encounter (I’m sure it was him!)
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