A ROUNDUP OF REACTIONS to last night’s Obama-McCain event.
UPDATE: More: What exactly is Barack Obama’s problem with Clarence Thomas?
Was it that Barack Obama didn’t like Justice Thomas’s vote on the recent child-rapist case, Kennedy v. Louisiana? No, that couldn’t be it. Barack Obama agreed with Thomas on that decision. Justice Ginsburg, meanwhile — a liberal favorite on the Court, whom John McCain listed as one of his least favorite justices during the same forum — opposed giving child rapists the death penalty. So what’s so wrong about Thomas and so right about, say, Ginsburg, Senator Obama? . . .
Did Obama disagree with Justice Thomas on the recent cross-burning case, Virginia v. Black? Obama’s favorite justice, Justice Ginsburg, wrote that cross-burning bans are constitutionally suspect. Justice Thomas disagreed and wrote a passionate dissent.
(Via RedState).
MORE: Dan Friedman emails: “The Rick Warren Show is being positioned as a ‘forum aimed at evangelicals.’ The media, and the Obama campaign, should be so lucky. Check the ratings. Millions of American Jews, pagans, lapsed Catholics, Buddhists, atheists, Presbyterians, Hindus, Muslims, Shintos, and none-of-the-aboves were tuned in too because it was as close as we’ve come to a side-by-side demo so far.”