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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I don't lie.
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I was talking about Clarence Thomas' blatant lies of omission.
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I don't dispute Thomas' problem - my issue has more to do with the importance of the question. If the point of the question was really to disclose real conflict of interest, the question falls short. It is no longer 1950 were people have Leave It To Beaver family relationships.
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By clearly trying to hide his wife's income, this suggests there's something he's trying to hide. That's where my concern comes from. Why would he lie if there was nothing to hide?
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I begin to think that you would have double standards on these issues based on political point of view.
Thomas is who he says he is, it seems to me that you simply want a system where people hide what they truly are. I find that much more of a problem than how a person fills out a form, who pays them for a speech, or what their wife does.
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If who Clarence Thomas is is someone who is happy to be very politically active using his title as Supreme Court Justice to influence politics, that's not someone who belongs on the bench, period. And clearly he IS trying to hide it. It took some investigative journalism to find out he and Scalia were speaking at this political events. How many others have yet to be discovered?