Obama said publicly that he wouldn't have chosen Clarence Thomas for the S.C.

[jenmito]

That has to be the ONLY reason he's taking up the stupid case about Obama not being a citizen and therefore not qualified to be president. He said it at the Saddleback Church:

Obama's comments in August that Thomas was not "strong enough a jurist or legal thinker at the time" of his 1991 nomination to sit on the high court set off a firestorm of conservative criticism.

The Democratic nominee also said about Thomas: "I profoundly disagree with his interpretations of a lot of the Constitution."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/03/supreme.court.politics/index.html?eref=ib_topstories

[Unsane]

1. If Obama isn't qualified, then neither were Jefferson, Jackson, Arthur, and Hoover

all of whom had at least one foreign born parent.

[jenmito]

2. This won't go anywhere. It's personal for Thomas. That's the only reason he took it. n/t

[...of J.Temperance]

3. Barack Obama won in a landslide, these Sore Losers need to get the fuck over it already

I can't believe that this idiot has managed to get his ridiculous case heard before the USSC.

[jenmito]

4. Thomas will be the only one to side with the freepers. None of the others will. n/t

[...of J.Temperance]

5. I'm likely to agree, I don't think Thomas can get a majority on this sheer insanity of a case n/t

[jenmito]

8. There's no way he'll get a majority. I doubt he gets even ONE other judge! nt

[...of J.Temperance]

11. Well he MIGHT get Fat Tony, but that's the only one he MIGHT get n/t

[jenmito]

14. I think he's too smart to go along with it. n/t

[...of J.Temperance]

15. I don't even know why Thomas has taken this, after Souter rejected it

I know that the idiot that brought the case could then request a specific Justice, but Thomas could have said no, yet chose to take the thing.

[jenmito]

16. I think he took it because of the reason in my OP. n/t

[...of J.Temperance]

18. Yeah you could be right

Typical Republican sour grapes, if someone doesn't agree with them they throw a fit.

[jenmito]

19. Thanks...

I remembered when Obama criticized Thomas that night. It wasn't gonna win him any points with Thomas.

[Thrill]

6. Do you really believe Thomas is taking up that case?

I seriously doubt it

[jenmito]

9. This thread says he did:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7909879&mesg_id=7910440

[pdxmom]

7. And Thomas' actions in this prove that Obama was correct. N/T

[jenmito]

10. Exactly. n/t

[gravity]

12. Why do you assume it is against Obama?

You can't make a legal argument against Obama when he has a birth certificate in this country.

John McCain and Roger Calero were also in the named in the case, and their natural born citizenship is open to more questions than Barack's.

[jenmito]

13. True. I'm just ASSuming because of what Obama said about him once.

I could be wrong, of course, and that's true about the others named in the complaint.

[midnight]

17. Good answer.