One of the most revealing things said during Saturday night’s Saddleback forum, was when Barack Obama was asked which Supreme Court justices he would not have nominated.

Obama wasted no time in naming Clarence Thomas, because “I don’t think that he, I don’t think that he was a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation.”

It’s impressive that Barack Obama is able to keep a straight face while criticizing anyone for lack of experience, given the fact that he’s the most unqualified lightweight to run for President in our nation’s history.

Putting aside that irony, Obama is also just flat wrong about Thomas. As The Wall Street Journal points out, Clarence Thomas had far more experience than Obama does.

By the time he was nominated, Clarence Thomas had worked in the Missouri Attorney General’s office, served as an Assistant Secretary of Education, run the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and sat for a year on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the nation’s second most prominent court. Since his “elevation” to the High Court in 1991, he has also shown himself to be a principled and scholarly jurist.

The fact of the matter is that Clarence Thomas has proven to be one of the most respected members of the of the entire court.

Black people have always loathed Thomas because even though he’s the first African-American elected to the Supreme Court, he’s said publicly that he doesn’t think that means he owes anything to the black community.

In other words, just because he’s black doesn’t mean he’s going to pretend the constitution says something it does not just because a particular ruling would benefit the black community.

Barack Obama of course finds that offensive and would expect his supreme court nominees to legislate from the bench and inact socialist policies the founding fathers never intended.