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Heheheheh. My brother lives in Delaware, so he actually will actually get to see this dimwit’s name on a ballot. (via Think Progress):
O’Donnell stumbled when asked whether or not she would repeal the 14th, 16th, or 17th Amendments if elected. She asked the questioner to define the 14th and 16th amendments, adding: “I’m sorry, I didn’t bring my Constitution with me.”“You actually audibly heard the crowd gasp,” said Widener University political scientist Wesley Leckrone, adding that her responses “raised questions about O’Donnell’s grasp of the Constitution.” Indeed, as Coons points out, the First Amendment explicitly states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” But, as Keith Olbermann discovered, O’Donnell offered her own creative interpretation of the Constitution’s intent at a candidate’s forum last month: “I also want to clarify that it is not separation of church and state but separate from church and state.”
For more on O’Donnell’s record, check out our ThinkProgress report: The Old Adventures of New Christine.
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Miss Thang would fail a poll testand I’m sure that many people who would vote for her would fail too.
The Government Printion Office sells……a pocket sized booklet of the both the Constitution and the Declaration.
If you contact your Representative, they usually have copies of that booklet available to constituents for free.
Here I am with MY (in every meaning of the word) Constitution.
I somehow doubt that O’Donnel would consider it her Constitution, though.
her position on thisdoesn’t go against the far-right nut job position on this issue. They firmly believe that the constitution is there to protect religion from the government, but not the other way around. They always spout the phrase “Freedom OF religion does not mean freedom FROM religion. They regard the constitution as a one-way valve that protects their religious rights as Christians and maybe the rights of Jews. But, certainly not the rights of Muslims.
IndeedIts not some stupid thing she says, these people do not believe in the separation of church and state.
It’s so weird (albeit typical)that people on the far right, who fetishize the “original intent” of the Founders, toss it out the window so blithely on this issue. Jefferson wrote repeatedly about erecting “a rigid wall” between church and state. Madison and Jay echoed him. Jefferson even went so far as to argue, when Virginia’s state constitution was being hashed out, that the earnings of ministers should be limited by law. (How do you think Pat Robertson would get along with him?) On this issue, as on so many others, the Founders got it right. If our schools were doing their job properly, O’Donnell and her co-conspirators would never get away with their crap.
at some point it takes a dining-room tableAt that point Coons needed to do a Barney Frank, and simply ask, “Madam, from what planet did you come from?”
Same thing in Nevada, where Harry Reid might just lose because he’s such a mannequin. When your hometown newspaper compares you to Mike Dukakis, you’re in trouble. Here’s some troubling reading for you.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/new…
If you consider how they treat their Bibles,it’s not even weird. They are always taking stuff out of context and using it to promote their agenda of fear and control. Why should the US Constitution be treated any differently from their holy book?
As one who was born in the First State, I understand that the main issue here is the separation of rational Delaware from “SLower Delaware”. It just amazes me that the part of my home state that gives us Rehomo Beach is also the part that overwhelmingly foisted Christine O’Donnell on us. There’s no way the wanna be witch (who doesn’t even know the difference between Wicca and Satanism) can win in Wilmington and Newark, where most of the voters live.
It does grieve me that my parents will probably vote for a person who makes Palin look sane.
What a scholarHer education in the Constitution is lacking, but hey what does one expect after a seven day course of study?