Justice Clarence Thomas Explains Corporate Policical donations

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas explained the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission in a classy way at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Fla.. "“Go back and read why Tillman introduced that legislation,” Justice Thomas said, referring to Senator Benjamin Tillman. “Tillman was from South Carolina, and as I hear the story he was concerned that the corporations, Republican corporations, were favorable toward blacks and he felt that there was a need to regulate them.”
It is thus a mistake, the justice said, to applaud the regulation of corporate speech as “some sort of beatific action.”
Justice Thomas said the First Amendment’s protections applied regardless of how people chose to assemble to participate in the political process."
Thomas is a classy guy and explained the ruling in a classroom at a college. President Obama, on the other hand, shows how little class he has as he rips the ruling in the State of the Union address, where there justices could not respond.
And Thomas does not attend the State of the Union speeches either: “I don’t go because it has become so partisan and it’s very uncomfortable for a judge to sit there,” he said, adding that “there’s a lot that you don’t hear on TV — the catcalls, the whooping and hollering and under-the-breath comments.”
“One of the consequences,” he added in an apparent reference to last week’s address, “is now the court becomes part of the conversation, if you want to call it that, in the speeches. It’s just an example of why I don’t go.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/us/politics/04scotus.html?hp
Oh, those classy politicians.