Should somebody with such a grudge be allowed to sit on the Supreme Court...

Really now, the new and mightily indignant tome allegedly penned by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (are we sure Hannity didn't scratch out this screed on the back of old Fox News talking points) comes as somewhat of a shock to liberals and progressives. It should rankle the rest of the political spectrum, but what they hey, he did give them W.

New York Times Columnist Frank Rich puts it best in these two paragraphs from his sunday column....

It's useful to watch Mr. Thomas at this moment, 16 years after his riveting confirmation circus. He is a barometer of what has and has not changed since then because he hasn't changed at all. He still preaches against black self-pity even as he hyperbolically tries to cast his Senate cross-examination by Joe Biden as tantamount to the Ku Klux Klan assassination of Medgar Evers. He still denies that he is the beneficiary of the very race-based preferences he deplores. He still has a dubious relationship with the whole truth and nothing but, and not merely in the matter of Anita Hill.

This could be seen most vividly on "60 Minutes," when he revisited a parable about the evils of affirmative action that is also a centerpiece of his memoir: his anger about the "tainted" degree he received from Yale Law School. In Mr. Thomas's account, he stuck a 15-cent price sticker on his diploma after potential employers refused to hire him. By his reckoning, a Yale Law graduate admitted through affirmative action, as he was, would automatically be judged inferior to whites with the same degree. The "60 Minutes" correspondent, Steve Kroft, maintained that Mr. Thomas had no choice but to settle for a measly $10,000-a-year job (in 1974 dollars) in Missouri, working for the state's attorney general, John Danforth.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/opinion/07rich.html?em&ex=1191988800&en=1e333d89536557eb&ei=5087%0A

Danforth was, like Thomas and that other infamous favored son, W., all graduated from Yale....

One has to ask if Justice Thomas, an oxymoron if ever there was one, may have dug deep into to his anger at liberals in general and democrats in particular, to justify his vote to stop the recounts in FLA...

He is a dangerous man with abundant power who is playing some kind of warped reverse race card to reek vengeance on those who questioned his qualifications to sit in judgment on all of us...

I felt truly afraid upon reading the clips of his writing...

The damage he has helped happen plus what he could do in the future...

He isn't old, after all...

Genuinely scary.

Well said...

K&R

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and I'm thinking "why is this guy playing victim?---he's got one of the most powerful jobs in the country!" It all went in his favor, and his bemoaning his reputation being tarnished certainly seems misplaced. Fox News has been trumpeting THomas' achievements and playing along with the "poor victimized me" version of his life. This guy is demented and dangerous.

Thomas has revived the subject and is making the rounds. When 60 minutes gave Thomas airtime to refute Hill's accusations while pimping his book, Hill should have been given a few minutes in the segment to respond to his claims. Such an opportunity was not offered to her.

Is anyone pulling the tapes of his confirmation testimony? I'd be willing to be there's more than one instance of clear perjury in there.

On the 60 Minutes interview he was all erudite and 'distinguished'.
Quite the legal scholar and jurist.

A few days ago c-span 2 showed the tape of a book party he attended at Armstrong Williams' home. Yes, THAT Armstrong Williams.
And in that 'private' little gathering (among the guests, the vice-president and second lady) he was the high-fivin', shuckin' and jive-talkin', guffawing 'homie'.

Interesting contrast.

He is just an agressively, alaqrmingly, annoyingly angy man.