Clarence Thomas' wife holds TEA Party

Mark Silva recycles this LA Times/NPR non-story.
Which non-story fails to note the fact that justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor (NOT their spouses) were political activists prior to being appointed to the court.
Perhaps a journalist might also like to note that Mrs. Thomas has already responded to the LAT, noting the media not mentioning (among others) the 3rd Circuit court judge who's married to the Democrat Governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell. Or the leftwing political activist who's married to 11th Circuit Judge Reinhardt. She guesses that the media gives a pass to the political activism of a judge's spouse--so long as it's leftwing activism.

If this is a conflict of interest then would it not be the same with Pelosi. Seeing how Pelosi gets so much money from the medical field and trial lawyers.

I'm shocked! You mean that the sheep baggers are being led by the top pugs? Maybe the confused sheep just need to do their homework, rather than listening to other angry sheep.

And yes, I do see a conflict of interest. Look at what the pugs did with Sontamayor's squeeky clean sheet.

Well, she must be a racist.

Some great news for us, Democrats. With Sarah, " Crash ", "Staples", Dickie Armey and now, Virginia Thomas, we can rest assured that America will not go that way, not by following those blind ideologues. That they are crass opportunists is hardly my focus, though that is extremely obvious. What I want to focus on, in this post, is the champions of the status quo, these folks mentioned !! They have a history of being on the public payroll, for most of their adult lives and continue to camp at the public trough. While they sat idly by, if not helped, the dynamic Duo, Bush&Cheney, whittle away 8.5 Million jobs over the life of their disappointing terms in our White House !! That they championed the paying for, and moving, of thousands, if not millions, of jobs overseas, to cheap labor markets, aka, China, is a given!! Now, since President Obama has won our White House, in a fair election, for once in years, we see the Birch Society rearing its ugly head, once again. Who is next, Senator Joe McCarthy? I wouldn't be surprised!! They have already trotted out, every tired, worn-out name from that bygone, narrow-minded era, trying to smear President Obama with them. Fortunately, the American people know, President Obama is working for them, not for the Greedy Corporations, who are represented by the crack troops, cabal of ideologues mentioned above.
The election of President Obama and Vice-President Biden was certainly one of the more responsible and reasoned actions by our American electorate in quite a few years. An educated voter is the Republican-Libertarian-T.Bagger's worst nightmare. Go ahead America, make my day !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

Another partial story regurgitated by the SWAMP rats but does it really tell the truth?

No, it is written to give bias towards the tea party movement. A movement that is beyond the "affairs of liberal hatered" and open to all Americans who have had enough of government intrusion and malfeasence.

What I find astonishing about this is Mrs. Thomas is white. Looking at the Repukers it is easy to see that they are not for the minorities at all. If you watched their convention it was a mostly white audience.
Another thing I find astonishing is she supports Rush "Druggy" Limbaugh. Wow,anyone who can even think for themselves knows he is a total idiot. Actually he is like the side show at a circus.
I'm looking for the "Coffee Party" or the "Beer Party" to start up that will be good thinking Americans that believe in helping other Americans. That's the one I will join.

I don't see a problem with this, I actually would if democrats weren't doing it but THEY ARE and its a bigger problem on the left then it is the right.

Do we not forget the political activist Sotomayor?

What would the left say if Thomas WAS a leader of the Tea Party movement?

They would condemn that and continue to support Sotomayor without a feeling of hypocrisy.

Whats good for the goose is good for the gander.

So what? And this is front page news because...

A fascist Supreme Court justice who trivializes the Constitution and is determined to remove the rights of US citizens, married to a Tea Party activist, is hardly surprising.

It's funny to hear a Republican accuse anyone of being a "biased elitist"!

Nick, exactly what "political activism" did Sotomayor do? Oh, that's right, the pugs wispered it into your ears. Baa.....Baaaa......BAAAAAA!

"..What I find astonishing about this is Mrs. Thomas is white. Looking at the Repukers it is easy to see that they are not for the minorities at all. .."

Posted by: Phil B | March 16, 2010 11:03 AM
Phil B---What an odd, immature comment- are you "astonished" that Thomas would marry a white woman, or are you "astonished" that she would marry a black man?
It couldn't possibly be that you look at the reported images from Tea Party rallies and formed your own version of the demographics to fit your passive aggressive racist views could it?
The only thing your "insight" exposes is that you have a really narrow vision of the world if you qualify the inter-racial marriage as astonishing....you shold get out more... don't watch so much TV.

A fascist Supreme Court justice who trivializes the Constitution and is determined to remove the rights of US citizens, married to a Tea Party activist, is hardly surprising.

Posted by: Jeff | March 16, 2010 12:01 PM

And a liberal poster completely misusing the term facist--how surprising !

Good for her. Obama and his wealth redistribution fantasies have made activitists out of tens of millions of Americans who were otherwise silent. New Jersey. Virginia. Massachusetts. The backlash against Obama and Democrats continues in November.

The "Thomas watch". The easiest beat for any reporter to cover in Washington.

How many questions has he asked in his entire career on the Supreme Court?

Can they be counted on the fingers of both hands? One hand?

God bless her for her efforts aginst these liberal socialist scum.

jesus, you right wing hacks are a bunch of thin-skinned whiners.

"Xcellentform":
Judge Sotomayor was a political activist on campus, according to a flattering NY Times profile.
Judge Sotomayor received appointments to political positions from NY Gov. Mario Cuomo, DA Morgenthau, and NYC Mayor Ed Koch--all Democrats.
Enough proof of her activism for you?
And if anyone--even a journalist--is interested in the politics of the spouses of justices, Sotomayor's ex-husband, Kevin E. Noonan, a Chicago attorney, is a heavy political contributor to both the Democratic Party, and Obama.

Barack Obama in Cleveland on 3/15/2010:

If we pass his bill, "your employer would see premiums fall 3000%"

A 3000% drop in costs. Amazing. Did the teleprompter really say that?

Wow. And somehow the Tribune missed that.

Does she realize that her husband's salary comes from our taxes?

Leave it the wingnuts to make charges and blame the story for things it did not say. The story specifically said that it was NOT a conflict of interest. They quoted her and explained her position. There was no reason to bring up the names of other activists unless their spouses are on the Supreme Court. I saw nothing negative in the story. But I guess wingnuts are such sad people, they cannot be satisfied.

This IS an old story. That said, here's an African-America Justice who has never been on the plantation bandwagon of Jesse Jackson and company who have made a billion dollar business of muscle in and shake down. Clarence Thomas lets his assents and dissents speak for him and he's no dummy as opposed to many of his progressive (there's a stretch for liberal) detractors.

Thomas didn't mouth "not true, not true" when the President recently had a case of George Bush hoof in mouth disease during the State of the Union speech over a SCOTUS decision. So, his caucasian wife joins a Tea party. It STILL IS a free country, right?

Equal time....since when was social activism (making minorities on campus feel equal) considered political activism? And further more, how the hell is that similar to Thomas's wife being a tea-bagger? And how is there a percieved activism based on the person that gave her a job? Yea, I guess you do need to explain yourself some more. FYI, you can't use the word "activism" in one sentence and "democrat" in the next and expect me to magically meld the two together....you can save that trick to fool the pugs.

Note to the Tea Party movement. Get rid of the race baiting and Nazi/Communist rhetoric and there are a lot of people who would sign on. Until that happens, you remain a fringe movement

>>Thomas counts herself on her Website as among the "fans'' of radio's Rush Limbaugh<<
Does anyone with a half a brain really consider that admitted drug addict relevant anymore?

Joe,
My Belle Michelle's husband's salary, the teleprompter-in-chief', comes from the taxpayers also.

She will become a target for the loony liberals because she is a strong conservative female and that scares the hell out of them.

Truly, the Mad Tea Party. Again, life imitates art. "Move down, move down!"

This is great, will let everyone know about her being an american who is trying to inform and educate about the sin of quantitative easing with the magic zero's on our nations bank account.

Way to go Virginia!

JC

I've been proven correct again. Clarence is a far-righted wing radical who is a danger to democracy in the US. He has no business being a judge.

So what?? This is a non issue.

Americans who have had enough of government intrusion and malfeasence.

Posted by: springfield | March 16, 2010 11:00 AM
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Ahhy yes you TeaBaggers are fed up w/ government intrusion. Perhaps then you could explain why you Right Wing parrots keep bleating that the most important things the Obama Administration/Gubmint should be focusing on is: 1) JOBS, 2) JOBS, 3) JOBS. Just admit it you TeaBaggers don't have an ideology, you don't have a leader, and you are influenced by one and only one thing which is your hatred for President Obama and as you refer to her "his wookie wife".

HEY ME:

HOW MANY LISTENERS DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE ONE RELEVANT? WHY DON'T YOU ASK scAIR AMERICA, OH WAIT, THEY'RE BANKRUPT.

It is really funny how the media generally and the liberal media especially (MSNBC et al) portray people who want less government and fiscal responsibility as lunatics and a fringe element. Obviously the democrats are not on board with these ideas and the republicans are pretending to be to co opt some votes. I think anyone who actually believes in the above should keep both parties at a distance.

How can a Supreme Court justice go 4 years without asking a question? It sounds like he's either not quick enough or smart enough to ask them or that he's made up his mind before the cases are presented. We know he's always been lockstep with Justice Scalia, but wouldn't it be nice to have 9 individual minds working on our highest court?

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas survived an attempted high-tech lynching during his nomination, but prevailed. The liberal left hammered him continually on unfounded accusations made by the dysfunctional Anita Hill. He is a true patriot and American, and his wife has every right to pursue her own interests and be involved in the political process. The left still hates him, and her, because he wasn't taking the typical victimhood, woe-is-me party line of so many black activists - i.e. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Charles Rangel who only support their own when they walk the party line.

God bless her for her efforts aginst these liberal socialist scum.

Posted by: roundlaketom | March 16, 2010 1:07 PM

But the conservative scum I'm used is so much more pleasant.

As Gomer use to say "Surprise, Surprise, Surprise"

And we wonder why nothing ever gets accomplished in this country!! This is just pathetic and I am ashamed for her but even more for her Supreme Court Justice husband!!!

It's funny how people on the right continue to deny reality by blaming media for putting a liberal bias on everything. If everything you see in the media has this bias wouldn't it make sense to think that perception is reality my friends and reality obviously leans left!!!!!

But disregard the one news network that has an obvious agenda, which way does that network lean? Exactly!!!!!

You repugs love to speak out of both sides of your mouth, but it just doesn't work.

Are there any minorities in the Tea Party? I have yet to see (on tv when they coverd there protests and they scanned the crowds) or hear from one. Tea Party people might be your average American citizen but they are also white and hover around the upper middle class. They are trying to hold unto their wealth and postion.

Isn't it interesting how the right wing claims all the real and average citizens and characterizes those with whom they disagree as "elitists," i.e., not real citizens or average citizens? Then they complain that the media does not characterize THEM fairly. News flash: there are many many to the left of center who are average, good, patriotic citizens... sorry if it offends the right that some of us are also educated...

JoeScmoe: AND health care is paid for BOTH of them, usually for life! Oh...to be a king or queen in this country, meaning of course: A GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE!!! THEY get the BEST...at OUR EXPENSE!!!

After using a juvenile word like "teabaggers" how can you possibly expect to be taken seriously at all?

"What I find astonishing about this is Mrs. Thomas is white." Now that is just pathetic on it's face. Imagine if you overheard someone make a similar comment, would it be offensive? Would you wonder if it was 2010 or 1610?

How can you regard yourself as "progressive" after saying something like that, much less intelligent?

I see once again the loony liberals being scared by a strong conservative woman. You know you are showing how big a hypocrite most of you are by going after her. Where was the outrage when liberal spouses of high-ranking officials were active politically? A judge sitting on the appellate court had a wife that was a high-ranking member in the ACLU. And there are others but no comparison to them in this story. Pathetic

For all the neo-cons shouting about small government explain this: Federal spending increased by 23.7 during Bush's first 3 years in office. Education was further federalized in the No Child Left Behind Act. Bush pulled out all the stops to get Republicans in Congress to create the biggest new entitlement program -- prescription drug coverage under Medicare -- in 40 years.
Bush pushed an energy bill wasr described as "three parts corporate welfare and one part cynical politics . . . a smorgasbord of handouts and subsidies for virtually every energy lobby in Washington."

It's a far cry from the less-government, "leave us alone" conservatism of Ronald Reagan.
Also, the tea-baggers were financed by the "Obama's Waterloo" republicans and the insurance companies to distrupt meetings where the HC bill was being explained. They would not allow ANYONE to explain or answer any questions about the proposed HC plan. They were NOTHING about less government.

So none of these reporters bothered to check into what the spouses of other justices and judges do? Are none politically active? And no mention in Chicago media of a very active Democrat politician whose wife sits on a court? Nothing wrong with that or Mrs. Thomas; as Tottenberg reports, it is just a matter of recusing one's self if a conflict of interest develops. In other words, this is a non-story...except, of course, is the feigned outrage over a conservative.

So what.Virginia Thomas joined a tea party group.Big yank.If this is a big deal,then Michelle Obama needs to get into the kitchen and keep her mouth closed about any political issues.And clean Barry's laundry while she is at it.What about Patti Blagojevich?I did not hear too much about any "conflict of interest" with her father being a powerful politician.

Personally I could care less what Michells does or says,I just want to point out the "outrage" over Mrs.Thomas is plain idiotic.Wives/husbands of judges and politicians more often then not are involved in some political activisim.

Mrs Thomas has as much a right to hate America as anyone else in this country.

You Liberal Democrats are the MOST INTOLERANT and HATE-FILLED people on this planet! Where do you Liberals learn hate so much. Adolf Hilter would be very proud of you.

On the left we have - NBC, CNN,CBS, ABC, and for comic relief, MSNBC.

On the right we have - Fox news.

5-1 - that sounds fair enough.

Guess who gets the best ratings - consistently.

T-shirt - "I would rather go hunting with Dick Cheney than go for a drive with Ted Kennedy"

Happy St. Patrick's day to one and all

@ suze:

"Are there any minorities in the Tea Party? I have yet to see (on tv when they coverd there protests and they scanned the crowds) or hear from one. Tea Party people might be your average American citizen but they are also white and hover around the upper middle class. They are trying to hold unto their wealth and postion."

I wouldn't know.I do not look at the T.V. and say to myself,"Well look!! There is a black,there is an asian.there is a native american.......".Sorry,but I think people that look at everything through race are very narrow minded,and lost.The Republican Party,Conservatives,Tea Partiers are open to anybody that has a little faith in Liberty and freedom.There is no sign on the door that says "whites only".Why don't you come on over and join us.Get on the winning side and have a little more faith in yourself then in some politician in Washington.And I am middle class.You are darn right I want to hold on to my money.If you want to give up more of your money and private property,by all means,go ahead.

Are there any minorities in the Tea Party? I have yet to see (on tv when they coverd there protests and they scanned the crowds) or hear from one. Tea Party people might be your average American citizen but they are also white and hover around the upper middle class. They are trying to hold unto their wealth and postion.

Posted by: suze | March 16, 2010 3:45 PM

See liberals, you have nothing to worry about. There are no minorities in the TEA Party. Thomas is a minority, so he surely won't want anything to do with them. SO, what's the problem.

Gotta love this logic. HELLO, believe it or not, there are minorities in the TEA Party.

@ Posted by: suze | March 16, 2010 3:45 PM --- I'm a minority and I am pissed off at my taxes consistently being raised with no accountability in all these programs that the government has run. Do I count, or am I not 'minority' enough since I'm Asian?

Hey Bones -

"It's funny how people on the right continue to deny reality by blaming media for putting a liberal bias on everything. "

How many stories have you read about Justice Ginsberg getting paid for speeches for the NOW or Planned Parenthood? How many stories did you read in the Tribune about Tom Daschel's wife, the $5Million a year airline industry lobbyist?

How many times have you seen photos of Obama smoking?

The Tribune did over 40 stories on Rep. Mark Foley. His replacement, Tim Mahoney, a Democrat, used $120,ooo in tax money to keep his mistress quiet. How many stories did the Tribune do on that one?

ABC NBC CBS and CNN were filled with dead air when it came to John Edwards paying his mistress with campaign contributions as his wife suffered through breast cancer – I guess every Democrat gets a tax-supported mistress, so that is why the vast majority of the press ignores it.

Rep. Massa, whose behavior was reported to Pelosi in October, has disappeared - why wasn't Pelosi grilled on what she knew and when did she know it?

The Tribune would not even do a story on Charlie Rangel's tax evasions because "we don't report on on-going investigations." Really? So the investigation was complete when they did the 40 stories on Foley? Hmmmm.

Or how about the item where Eric Holder withheld information on amicus briefs he wrote supporting terrorists? Haven’t heard about that one? Not surprising. Did that one ever appear in the Tribune?

How about Gov Ed Rendell, D-PA, whose wife is a judge on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals – does she recuse herself every time an appointee of her husband is a litigant? Not hardly.

Now we have a situation where Obama promised all the negotiations on the health care bill would be in the open. Gee, you would think that the Swamp would be full of stories on these critical negotiations. But no, not a peep.

Instead, the brainless liberals yip like neutered Chihuahuas that Clarence Thomas’s wife does something that lots of judicial spouses do – speak up.

And for that, she and her husband should be lynched.

"God bless her for her efforts aginst [sic] these liberal socialist scum."

Hey, that's me!
Liberal as the day is long. But ask yourself this: what has conservatism ever done to advance society? Anywhere. Anytime.
Don't hurt yourself; the answer is: NOTHING.

Scarlet says: It is high time that the high court be reigned in, put on notice, especially the corporate activist, who colluded to appoint George W. Bush as President in 2000; went along with his dictatorship, has now made corporations tantamount to flesh and blood people, with the exception that they don't have to do time for the crimes they perpetrate against humanity from patents to recreate humanoids to giving corporations rights to be complete and total fascist over the will of the people, to helping in the dismantling of the white man's Constitution. However you look at it, this country and the running dogs in black robes and white hoods have ran America from the beginning until now; killing, murdering, genociding, plundering, stealing, invading, and writing fascist, totalitarian laws that have made America the despicable place it is now, with its brain dead people, racist to the core, ignorant, stupid, sheep and followers, with not one brain cylinder working other than the one that this cyborg media controls. In America the only real freedom and liberty you can honestly say that you have is the freedom to be stupid...anyone who cannot see that the right wing supreme court has been fanning the flames of evangelical dominionism is blind in one eye and can't see out of the other one!

Posted by: heartburn | March 16, 2010 12:36 PM:

Oh dear teacher, why don't you school us on what "fascist" means...without going to wikipedia.

Let me guess...you think fascism is a leftist phenomenon?

Posted by: Equal time | March 16, 2010 9:53 AM:

Please provide links to evidence of Sotomayor and Ginsburg being "activists", so we can see what your definition of that is.

In your second graph, your big FAIL is that those people aren't on the Supreme Court so it doesn't really have anything to do with the topic at hand.

"It is really funny how the media generally and the liberal media especially (MSNBC et al) portray people who want less government and fiscal responsibility as lunatics and a fringe element. Obviously the democrats are not on board with these ideas and the republicans are pretending to be to co opt some votes. I think anyone who actually believes in the above should keep both parties at a distance. "

Posted by: Rob | March 16, 2010 3:13 PM

FAIL. That's not what people have a problem with. We have a problem with "movements" that are funded by conservative/Republican operatives and are woefully misinformed and manipulated. We also don't like the overt and subtle bigotry exposed in these "patriots".

Everyone knows what the Tea Party is about and it's none of the things you mention above. If McCain had been elected, we wouldn't have heard a peep out of these idiots.

Tea Party People.. I respect what you are tyring to accomplish. My question is did "your taxes being raised with no accountability in all these programs that the government has run" this just starting happening since Obama took office? If it started happening before the Obama presidency where was your organization and protests then?

1) She is married to a Supreme Court Judge - not someone who is supposed to be impartial! You can pretend that it will not affect his judgement, but he has proven to be a follower while on the bench.

2) Justice Thomas is a disaster - even the Judicial review boards describe him as a misplaced token.

3) Republicants still believe that they are having their taxes raised out of delight by the other party. The fact remains that if their hero hadn't lied to the world about WMDs and let his friends feed at the teat of greed for so long, we would be in far better shape. W allowed the meltdown on Wall Street and ignored the signs that it would be worse. The new administartion has to fix the mess that Republicants created. It's too bad that they are too blinded by rage to see that. Too bad...

Note to the Tea Party movement. Get rid of the race baiting and Nazi/Communist rhetoric and there are a lot of people who would sign on. Until that happens, you remain a fringe movement Posted by: larry burke | March 16, 2010 2:06 PM

Note to Larry: If you follow politics at all it is the demorats, liberals and progressives who play the race card whenever they are in trouble. Just ask Bill and Hillary.

This "fringe movement" will throw ALL you liberal progressive demorats out of office in November. Reid will not even be re-elected and PeLOUSY will be just another member of the House and will probably quit when.

Have you noticed that these threats of retaliation and "revolution" are all the baggers have left? They certainly don't have the votes. We ELECTED the President Mrs. Thomas, not you, and certainly NOT your dim bulb husband we're stuck with.

Liberal as the day is long. But ask yourself this: what has conservatism ever done to advance society? Anywhere. Anytime.
Don't hurt yourself; the answer is: NOTHING.

Posted by: Doug | March 16, 2010 5:23 PM

Well, let's see. Currently most of the military is conservative, so they are protecting your ass. Last time you had a nutty liberal in office we had 21% mortgage interest rates. Reagan brought the country and world back from your last major run at socialism and we will fix the mess you are making out of the economy once November rolls around.

We keep the lunatic liberals from surrending daily ala Harry Reid. We fixed welfare and lowered the poverty level which is more than the billions of dollars and 40 years of The Great Society accomplished. We put dangerous criminals in jail, not release them back into society to kill and rape.

We support a strong America and freedom, not government controls, regulations, laws, fees, taxes, fines, edicts, controls, beauracies, taxes and more taxes, government spending, spending, borrowing, taxes, spending. You know all those things that you wacko liberals DO TO PEOPLE. In short we believe that you and the government should let people be free to succeed and yes, fail.

This should be grounds for impeachment of Justice Thomas.

Wow . . . just when you think it's safe to rationally discuss politics, you're reminded at how hateful some folks on the left can be. Some of the comments here are absolutely evil--paranoid, racist, and filled with venomous hatred. It's sad that some elements of the left have sunk so low.

Any negative statements about Mr. and Mrs. Thomas are obviously because of blatant racism from the Racist Democrats. Wow thats easy to do, its childish, stupid and not true but hey whats good for he goose EEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRGHH

Jule J wrote:"Obama and his wealth redistribution fantasies have made activitists out of tens of millions of Americans who were otherwise silent. The backlash against Obama and Democrats continues in November."

HA! The fact that you say the Tea Baggers will help deliver Congress to the GOP is all anyone needs to know about what the movement really is: a GOP lobbyist-backed astroturf campaign. Thanks for admitting it.

And by the way..."tens of millions"? You realize that's in a nation of hundreds of millions, right? But good luck with that. Apparently you also have failed to notice that the Tea Bagger bandwagon started falling apart several weeks ago. Baggers see themselves as a growing force, when in reality it's a shriveling farce.

You're not Libertarians...you're a mix of GOP shills, militant separatist nuts, and racists. Obviously Thomas' wife is no racist...she's just associating with a group that attracts them.

Did anyone else see the shabby turnout for the Teabagger rallies in DC today? Is it even accurate to call it a "movement" anymore? Was it ever?

You go girl..

I am sick of hypocrites no matter which party they hide behind.. and the race baiters from the left too..

BTW there are elitist DEMOCRATS and by far more of them than on the right.. but than the left would like everyone to beleive that there are no Democrats at the tea party too..

Just look at that pic. Two toads on the same log.

Let me guess...you think fascism is a leftist phenomenon?

Posted by: Chord | March 16, 2010 5:48 PM

Chord- not a teacher, but I do know that the term fascistic is almost always misused by the left.

Fascism -is a belief in the state (government) as the dominant and often time sole provider of governing, organization, commerce etc.. at the expense of individuals liberty. Before the Nazi's genocidal angle on the term-fascism was considered an enlightened style of governance- as many "educated" people believed that capitalism was an inefficient and failed idea..

Take a closer look at the progressive movements of the early 20th century- you will find that they identified and in fact used European fascistic governments as a model for their view of what our government's role should be in governing and culture...Mussolini and FDR corresponded with each other and in fact publicly voiced mutual admiration for each others efforts to centralizing power in the government. The Nazi newspaper,Volkischer Beobachter before our involvement in WW2 actually praised FDR and his progressive government , saying ; "Roosevelt's adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies" and "the development toward an authoritarian state" based on the "demand that collective good be put before individual self-interest."

I would be curious to see how any of Clarence Thomas's views could be seen as fascistic-or would you say that Thomas and FDR had the same world views?

Wow are you loony liberals that scared of a strong outspoken conservative woman? Were you scared of the strong outspoken liberal women who are married to judges and high-ranking members of past administrations? Where was the outrage with them? Yes we see how big of hypocrites liberals really are along with their worms in the media.

What also I find funny here is the loony liberals using the DNC's talking points about the Tea Party Movement. And showing the same immature behavior that the mainstream media shows by calling them by a sex act. And of course you will not see minorities at a Tea Party rally if they were shot by the mainstream media. But all you need to do is go to YouTube and you'll see there are minorities there. So you loony liberals can keep lying to yourself but you will get a wake-up call come November.

Mrs Thomas has as much a right to hate America as anyone else in this country.

Posted by: Cheryl
Even as much as Barry and Michelle?