This is a couple days old, but every damn person should watch this video.
I spend so much time immersed in political fuckery every day, that I sometime forget that not everyone is as obsessive as I am. I figured everyone had heard about Christine O’Donnell’s smug ass smuggery during a debate before an audience at Widener University Law School until a friend of mine (who is aware of what’s going on, but who just doesn’t have cable) said she hadn’t heard about this.
So, if you haven’t watched this yet, do it! Do it now! Watch as she thinks she’s scored the biggest political hit of her life, by questioning Chris Coons: “Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?”
The Questioner Dude had already moved the fuck on to a new question! O’Donnell could have just shut her trap and no one would have known that she actually is as dumb as she looks. But no! She goes back and incredulously says. “The separation of church and state is in the Constitution?” Then she looks at the audience like, “Yeah right, get a load of this fuckin’ guy.”
The most hilarious part is that the law students in the audience laugh at her uneducated ass, and Christine thinks they’re laughing with her at Chris Coons when, really, they are laughing at her and her epic stupidity:
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Christine. Sweetie. It’s the very first amendment. THE FIRST ONE. That’s why it’s called the “First Amendment.” Just fucking read it! You don’t even have to read the other twenty-six if you can’t be bothered.
You Palinites love to talk about the First Amendment, but you don’t know fuck-all about it! So, for the record, the First amendment is where all the “The US is not a Christian nation/quit-shoving-Jesus-down-our-throat” stuff can be found. Also, it is the First Amendment which will keep Sharia law from getting its terrorist grips into our blessed land, so shut the hell up already, won’t you?
Delaware, I swear to biscuits, if you elect this woman as your Senator, I will set you on fire.
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And Delaware is SMALL! Only three counties, so it wouldn’t take much effort to set the whole damn state ablaze. Based on polling, I don’t think we’ll need to stock up on matches and flammable fuels.
It really was priceless, that smile she gave to the audience, thinking that she had NAILED her opponent to the WALL with her wanna-be snarky comebacks.
I know! I used to drive up I-95 almost every year, and I always was like “Wait..New Jersey? What happened to Delaware? We just..how’d we do that? I swear I just saw the stupid Small Wonder sign..”
So, no it wouldn’t take much. I just really hope it doesn’t come to that because OHMAGOH that kind of ignorance is unacceptable even for a member of City Council (hell, unacceptable for a plain old citizen), much less a freaking Senator.
My dear, I will make the 6 hour drive across state to help you. We can stand on the beach with a box of wine and a few glass. Maybe roast some marshmellows.
A basic tenet of faith of Teabaggery is that the first amendment doesn’t really say anything about the separation of church and state because it says congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion. Not “the separation of church and state.” See? Hah! Gotcha!
Never mind that Madison used the expression “separation of church and state” many times in his writings. Jefferson too. (I think.) In any case, the language of the first amendment has been interpreted as the sparation of church and state for nigh unto 200 years. Now the teabaggers come along and “discover” that’s all wrong.
It’s like taking a first year physics class and have your lab partner declare that he (and it’s always a he) has found a flaw in the general theory of relativity. Right. Sure. Back away slowly.
It’s like watching a train wreck. I don’t know which is worse, the thought that she (or Sarah Palin, for that matter) go home, watch these things, maybe while surfing a bit o’ Wiki-o-pedia, and feel horribly, horribly embarrassed…or that they are so arrogant, ignorant, insulated and committed to their own self-aggrandizement (not that either one of them would know that word) that they never even realize what a mockery they’re making of politics, political debate and public service?
Not only does the Teabagger’s Imaginary 1st Am. REQUIRE the state to set up churches but it also says that no one, anywhere is allowed to criticize, mock or disagree with anything a fReichtard says. All minorities must SHUT UP and respect their betters, also too.
They won’t elect O’Donnell. It’s the rest of Congress that concerns me. I’ve been getting a lot of traffic to a site that ties the Tea Party champion to the Koch brothers and their effort to buy Congress.
For the next 10 days, that needs to go viral:
http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/10/becks-fake-populism-exposed-he-sides.html
I can’t quite hear what someone say after her question – does anyone calls her oh her stupidity or does she goes home thinking she won that debate?
A basic tenet of faith of Teabaggery is that the first amendment doesn’t really say anything about the separation of church and state because it says congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion. Not “the separation of church and state.” See? Hah! Gotcha!
She really thought she won that one.
It’s like claiming that the Second Amendment doesn’t give you the right to own a gun or the Nineteenth doesn’t give women the right to vote. Because they don’t contain those exact words. See? Gotcha!
Her smile really was all like “Ha! I totally nailed him on that one!” AND YET he was very clear with what he said, and very clear about adding “as it has been interpreted”.
I continue to be appalled at the lack of education of Tea Party candidates. “I didn’t bring my constitution with me…could you remind me what those ones are?”
Totally loved Coons’ response, saying that a senator OUGHT to know what the Constitution says and be able to interpret it. Like understanding that “congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” has been interpreted as “separation of church and state” (see above).
THIS is what happens when you stop educating the masses–sadly, most Americans don’t know what’s in the constitution either, or have enough history behind them to get that the whole reason we have that in our constitution was because we didn’t want another Church of England on our hands.
Yo Americans! Wanna know why we have the constitution we have? We had this whole revolution thing (see the Tea Party, original series) where we looked at all the corruption in the government we’d come from and thought to ourselves (with some help from Thomas Paine), you know what would make more sense? If we didn’t have that kind of government…
Sigh. Maybe Oprah can do a very special show where she actually teaches some history. Maybe she can even get Dr. Oz to help her or something…
I really think that lots of people are taking the First Amendment very, very literally: if the government doesn’t actually establish a church, then it’s not a violation of church/state separation. Anything short of that, full speed ahead.
i am taking every opportunity possible to be proud of being from delaware. it’s not often that i don’t have to claim philly just to feel cool. delaWHERE? yeah you know where we are now bitches!! you don’t? it’s near philly, leave me alone. i had a point, if we vote for that damn woman, i will personally help you set me on fire.
“if we vote for that damn woman, i will personally help you set me on fire.”
FTW.
“…I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people, which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.”‘ ~Thomas Jefferson (writing to the Danbury Baptists, a religious group worried about the potential of a majority-defined state religion that would persecute their minority beliefs).