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 Christine O’Donnell’s Staggering IgnorancePosted on Oct 20, 2010
We’ve been trying to ignore a certain Senate candidate, but her latest display is so shocking (as the audience gasps during this debate confirm), it simply must be witnessed. Christine O’Donnell has managed to transform herself from a Christian conservative to a tea party candidate. To that end she has adopted the Constitution as sacred talisman. The only problem is she doesn’t seem to know anything about it. Not only does O’Donnell not know that the Constitution mandates the separation of church and state, she refuses to believe her opponent after he explains that the provision can be found in the First Amendment. For the record:
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By mack894, October 22, 2010 at 5:28 pm Link to this comment
Her constitency—the Jerry Springer audience.
Report thisBy Napolean DoneHisPart, October 22, 2010 at 11:07 am Link to this comment
One things for sure, even though Christine’s light is pretty dim when it comes to the faculties necessary to govern… she will undoubtedly get her own show ( reality show anyone? ) which will garner the voice Amerikan ignorance for another generation…
Oh, how I wish the people yearned for the truth.
Report thisBy omop, October 22, 2010 at 8:39 am Link to this comment
Again Uncle Zeb up in the Ozarks knows
whats it all about. Now that Don Juan W. has
wormed his way into a $2 million dollar
contract with Fox Christine is angling for one
too.
Come 2012 Uncle Zeb forsees a Christine -
Report thisJuan weekly news analysis on Fox.
By rico, suave, October 22, 2010 at 8:39 am Link to this comment
Big B:
Alas, you’re probably right.
Report thisBy RayLan, October 22, 2010 at 6:21 am Link to this comment
This is par for the course with the Tea Party - It’s view of the world is a gun-tottin ‘House on the Prairie’ fantasy. Why should it surprise anybody that these wild-eyed populists should be disconnected from fact and reality?
Report thisBy Big B, October 21, 2010 at 8:13 pm Link to this comment
Rico
Stupidity can be cured by reading a few books, Ignorance however runs to the bone, and straight through to the soul. If you BELIEVE you are right, then in your own mind you will always be right, no matter what evidence is presented to the contrary.
We are a nation that has become anti-intellectual. and it will get worse before it gets better. We’ll be burning books somewhere down the line, mark my words.
Report thisBy Napolean DoneHisPart, October 21, 2010 at 8:01 pm Link to this comment
God Bless America… and God Bless the actions of those who know Him and know their rights according to the Constitution which was established by men of faith… as it says… regardless what some subsequent contract among evil men says.
Report thisBy G.Anderson, October 21, 2010 at 7:15 pm Link to this comment
So? Joe six pack never liked smart people anyways….
Report thisBy rico, suave, October 21, 2010 at 6:01 pm Link to this comment
I’ll see your O’Donnell and raise you one Patrick Kennedy, or a Cynthia McKinney (or that genius who replaced her).
Report thisBy WriterOnTheStorm, October 21, 2010 at 5:28 pm Link to this comment
I feel sad for the Tea Party. I really do. After all, they are right about one thing:
America’s Tom & Jerry political system doesn’t give two shakes about them.
Too bad all that anger and energy is wasted on ignorant opportunists who believe
things like math, history and science are “socialist impositions”, used by liberal
elites to brainwash their heretofore god-fearing offspring.
The left should do everyone a favor and rescue the Tea Party from Authoritarians
and nit-wits. Imagine what intelligent people could do with that kind of
enthusiasm.
But then, if the left was doing its job, the Tea Party wouldn’t have to speak up for
Report thisthe angry, the disenfranchised, and the forgotten.
By cmarcusparr, October 21, 2010 at 4:17 pm Link to this comment
American politics has become a bout between caviling snits. That said, O’Donnell’s ignorance, which borders the venal, is a new low for America, the Senate candidate proving herself exponentially more thickheaded than had George W. Bush fathered a child with Dan Quayle.
Report thisBy DM42MN, October 21, 2010 at 4:06 pm Link to this comment
Distractingly, determinedly, dangerously dimwitted.
Report thisBy cat, October 21, 2010 at 3:27 pm Link to this comment
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HEY EVERYBODY…..This election let us vote to TERMINATE WASHINGTON. We can’t afford Washington any more. For WE THE PEOPLE know how to shrink Washington. And pay our own deficit to China off. We have already a House and Senate and supreme court in each state. On 02 November 2010 let us all vote to Terminate Capital hill. Only the President and his or her staff should be located in DC, We are finish paying for them to rule us. Congress and the senate and all their staff are ALL FIRED. Why do we need them? We sure can not afford them. Can you imagine all the billions that they take from us? We would be able to pay to China back at least a Trillion. We cant afford them and we already have Repersentives located in our states, We pay them the Taxes and they will pay the Federal Government from those taxes. And Federal Government will then provide to us our Hospitals, and stores, or roads and buildings. They have been bilking We The People for generations now, while they sit up in your chair with your feet up on the desk and rule us. Let us We The people shrink our own government and get back our money because it does not trickle down, It has trickled out of the country or invested in paper but nothing comes back down to the people because we have a whole branch of government that we don’t need and their whole staff we cant afford. People we are paying for 2 governments. And They are both broken and corrupt, WE THE PEOPLE have always had the power we where unable to figure out how to use it with out causing chaos, Until now. If we can get that change into the ballot at this time TO TERMINATE that whole branch of government. THIS WILL BE THE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN Then afterward another unannounced election with the option to terminate anyone elected on 02 November 2010 which will result in a pink slip. Because we have no more capital hill Congress or Senate Offices to rule us. Each state will rule itself as part of the union with DC our government which WE THE PEOPLE CONTROL.
Report thisBy Raul Jon Roybal, October 21, 2010 at 3:19 pm Link to this comment
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The word “Trinity” does not appear in the Bible. However, it is strongly implied in both the Old and New Testaments and is stated in the Great Commission which was ennunciated by Jesus himself. I suspect that in Bible-Thumpin’ Christine’s mind, the doctrine of Trinitarianism is not valid since the actual word is not present in the Bible….
Report thisBy adrienrain, October 21, 2010 at 2:50 pm Link to this comment
Dismayingly, doggedly, disturbingly dumb.
Report thisBy Jimnp72, October 21, 2010 at 2:48 pm Link to this comment
remember that the tea party wanst to ‘return america to the way it was’” meaning Jim Crow times
Report thisall over again.
If they hate socialism so much they should stop paying taxes.
By lasmog, October 21, 2010 at 1:38 pm Link to this comment
Not content to be merely ignorant of constitutional law, O’Donnell keeps smirking at her opponent’s assertion that the Establishment Clause is in the First Amendment. She appears convinced that he is making a mistake and wants to highlight this mistake to her audience. This makes O’Donnell the perfect Tea Party candidate, ignorant and proud of it.
Report thisBy purplewolf, October 21, 2010 at 10:10 am Link to this comment
The only qualification to run for political office on the T.P.er or Republican side is total ignorance of just about everything. Ignorance is bliss describes Christine.
Report thisBy Allan Krueger, October 21, 2010 at 9:27 am Link to this comment
Poor Christine is not qualified for the school board, much less higher office!
Report thisBy robjira, October 20, 2010 at 7:27 pm Link to this comment
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omfg…
Report thisBy Terrance Heath, October 20, 2010 at 7:19 pm Link to this comment
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This is the same biblical literalism I grew up with, applied to the constitution. In O’Donnell’s mind, if the constitution doesn’t literally include the actual phrase “separation of church and state,” then it “isn’t in the constitution.” If the constitution doesn’t literally include the specific phrase “minimum wage” or “unemployment benefits” or “social security” then all those things are “unconstitutional” because the constitution does not contain those specific words or phrases.
It sounds ridiculous, and thus the crowd at Widner Law School burst into peals of laughter as O’Donnell seemed not to realize they were laughing at her and not with her. But where I come from she would make sense to people, because they’re already use to thinking along the lines of “God said it. I believe it. That settles it.” There’s no room for nuance or interpretation. There’s no need to think about the words on the page. They must literally mean what they say, and cannot mean anything else.
Of course, the constitution doesn’t contain the words “Christine O’Donnell” either, but it still applies to her.
Report thisBy secretchief, October 20, 2010 at 6:23 pm Link to this comment
Robespierre, rid yourself of the illusion of eternal progress. It is not because you are past one stage that you cannot ever go back to it and beyond. Eternal technological progress? Most probably. Eternal progress towards Enlightenment? Nope.
And about O’Donnell, she actually could be that ignorant, but I have to mention that in her unenlightened circles, most folks believe that the Constitution indeed does not mention the separation of Church and State, which is a creation of evil lib’rul Supreme Court Justices who arbitrarily made it so in their wild interpretation of the First Amendment.
Report thisBy Robespierre115, October 20, 2010 at 3:20 pm Link to this comment
Politicians in America are debating whether evolution or creationism should be taught in schools? We never made it past the pre-Enlightenment period or what?
Report thisBy knute, October 20, 2010 at 2:53 pm Link to this comment
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Staggering Ignorance…I thought that was a prerequisite to run for office in the GOP. After all out last president supposedly had an IQ about the same as Koko the gorilla and was proud to display his ignorance quite often. We didn’t seem to mind, we re-elected the dumb ass. Sara Palin has lowered the bar quite alot for the requirements of being a GOP contestant in the continuing struggle to dismantle our democracy reality show. Judging from the polls its working for them, ofcourse the Washington Post and Faux News are working overtime telling us that anyway. Everything seems alot easier when you quit thinking for yourself.
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