Does anyone remember the Supreme Court nomination of Clarence Thomas?

And the involvement of Arlen Specter in his nomination? I remember his attacks upon Anita Hill. He sure didn't act like a Democrat back then, did he?

I think Democrats need to remember Arlen Specter's history before they pull the lever for him as the Democratic Senator from PA?

I was disgusted by Specter and the rest that gave Thomas a by. It was clear to me he was slime.

One of the more disgusting spectacles in our modern history.

Clarence Thomas on the Court, where he was sure to hold his seat for decades. I fervently hope he is defeated in this primary.

I know he was despised my millions after that performance. I, for one, hated his guts for it. In the years following that disgusting display, I watched his stances slowly soften and move toward the middle. I'm not saying that I forgive him, but I do think he's learned from his mistakes.

Anita Hill. That whole process was vicious and unhealthy, not to mention unAmerican. I hate to say I still blame Joe Biden for helping that process along. I realize he was surrounded by the Repubs. but it is hard to stomach that whole episode. I wish Specter would just disappear into the woodwork.

kids but I don't remember what anyone did, really, except Thomas and Hill.

Professionally and personally, he has had to deal with sex offenders and people who sexually harass others. It was eye opening to watch the hearings with him.

His experience led him to believe that Thomas was guilty of everything said about him. He felt that Hill was telling the truth. We both admired her strength in coming forward.

Justice is seldom done in cases like these. The people involved end up being damaged, no matter what the outcome.

in the aftermath.

people like Thomas.

I live in a small town. We had a notorious case of sex abuse in our community almost twenty years ago. A very prominent man had been sexually abusing his daughter from the time she was eight until she was 16. Her mother knew. Finally, she told her grandmother. Her grandmother went to the police.

Our town was split right down the middle. I was surprised that so many people defended this man, who had admitted his offenses to law enforcement! His defenders were awful to this girl, who had turned eighteen while the case was in progress. I knew many of the details because the young lady worked for me part time while she went to school. For some reason, she confided in me.

This guy was found guilty and he was supposed to go to jail. You know what they do to people like him in jail.

He had wily lawyers, and he never went to jail. He was always out on appeal, glad-handing everyone on main street and making his presence known at every local event. Then he had a stroke. He was disabled after that. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Karma.

Clarence Thomas is disgusting...and so is Specter.

I taped it for my kid, just in case there was some horrible thing in the future, we could look back together...I must a 5-6 full length tapes of the hearings...

I was right about 'horrible'...

infection and couldn't.

Damn.

we couldn't get radio reception at the camp site so we left the kids and one parent from each family and the rest of us loaded up in cars and drove a couple of miles up the road to where we could get radio reception and stayed and listened, on a tiny back"woods" road in the desert for a couple of days.

When there would be a break in the "action" we'd argue about it. Some thought Thomas would have been treated differently had he been white, better. When they turned on Anita, we were all of one mind. And yes, Specter was as big an ass as any of them.

attacked Anita Hill. They were a bunch of good old boys banded together to protect the good old boy. The facts were right there. He was a stalker, he used sexual harrassment to ALL the women where he worked especially to Hill. And yet they approved him.

I remember Anita Hill as being composed and very professional. I'm sure she was very sincere, but the powers that be made sure her testimony was neutralized.

I still consider GHWB's nomination of Uncle Thomas as a vicious prank on the US Courts.