Christine O'Donnell is an original Know Nothing
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Christine O'Donnell, Delaware GOP candidate for the Senate, yesterday startled a Widener law school audience by frankly asking where in the constitution is the separation of church and state?
The Tea Party candidate inspired horrified gasps and laughter from the law school audience as it became apparent she appeared not to know that the First Amendment calls for barring the government from establishing religion.
When her Democratic opponent Chris Coons responded that the First Amendment bars Congress from making laws respecting the establishment of religion, O'Donnell asked: "You're telling me that's in the First Amendment?"
This ladies and gentlemen is you country under the Tea Party. Watch below.
The Tea Party candidate inspired horrified gasps and laughter from the law school audience as it became apparent she appeared not to know that the First Amendment calls for barring the government from establishing religion.
When her Democratic opponent Chris Coons responded that the First Amendment bars Congress from making laws respecting the establishment of religion, O'Donnell asked: "You're telling me that's in the First Amendment?"
This ladies and gentlemen is you country under the Tea Party. Watch below.
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plasticpaddy | Oct 29, 2010, 08:32 PM EDT
2borNot2b the new minister of misinformation
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2BorNot2B | Oct 29, 2010, 03:27 PM EDT
O'Donnell was mercilessly skewered for a youthful indiscretion by the-no morals, no-qualms, no holds barred-but-stay in power-left, while her follicularly challenged opponent got a pass from the oVomit sphincter-inserted crowd, known as 'media' after he said he was 'a bearded Marxist.' Goes to show what their marching orders are. They will stop at nothing to preserve the rubber-stamp for socialist transformation of this country by the democRat machine now in power. Remember to vote the OUT on Tuesday.
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chesapeake | Oct 27, 2010, 10:17 AM EDT
Would that the leaders of this nation understand the concept of "separation of church and state! This was intended to prevent the establishment of a single church (religion) in the USA; rather it was to promote religious freedom for Catholics, Protestants, Jews, presbyterians. atheists and other befiefs. It was NOT intended to repress the trappings of religion )i.e. Manger scenes, menoras, etc.). Christine O'Donnell may be politically naive; but she is still a better candiadate than the RINO she bested in the primary. Gad, wouldn't it be something is she actually pulled an upset and beat her tax-raising, pro-government, socialist-leaning opponent. Talk about no glee in Mudville!
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maloney | Oct 25, 2010, 08:22 PM EDT
marthaanna, love illegal beaners & hate Italians. Makes you a chump & a bigot.
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MarthaAnne | Oct 23, 2010, 07:44 PM EDT
Italian. Christine O'Donnell's mother is NOT IRISH SHE IS ITALIAN.
That's where she learned to think that you get a human brain in a mouse. From her mother. The mother sets the stage for a child's intellectual life, and she did that.
I know this is not PC, but I doubt that there are any Irish mothers who would raise a daughter to be as unintellectual as O'Donnell is. The Italians are not nearly as education-oriented as the Irish are and I am sorry but it is the reality.
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cpflann | Oct 22, 2010, 12:37 PM EDT
If we read the Constitution like the Fundamentalist Christians read the Bible, we're all in trouble. The principle of the separation of church and state is embodied in the 1st Amendment. The fact that the words "separation of church and state" don't appear there doesn't make it any less of a principle. If you believe that the Federal government can only do what's specifically stated in the Constitution, then you have to get rid of: the FDA, the SEC, the National Institutes of Health, the interstate highway system, Medicare, Social Security, the Veteran's Administration (including hospitals, veteran's benefits, etc.), the minimum wage and the states west of the Mississippi (since the Constitution doesn't contain any right of the Federal government to buy land). Many of the tea baggers have already said they want to get rid of Social Security, Medicare and the minimum wage. The rest is just a logical extension.
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hollabackgurl | Oct 22, 2010, 12:07 PM EDT
Wingnuts are now living in an alternate reality. The seperation of church and state has been a founding principal of this nation for centuries, and the First Amendment makes that clear. Isn't reading comprehension taught in schools anymore? Do the right wingers think we're a fundamentalist theocracy now?
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Monsoonman | Oct 22, 2010, 11:45 AM EDT
Good point Felicia, the pseudo intellectual liberals guffawed and sneered at Christine O'Donnel when she questioned if that phrase was in the 1st amendment. She was right, they were wrong. Going a bit further it hasn't gone unnoticed that the Harvard "law professor" that currently occupies the Whitehouse is deliberately misquoting the declaration of independence by leaving out mention of our creator...Very illuminating.
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Felicia | Oct 22, 2010, 04:05 AM EDT
As many have stated here and I have checked my copy of the Bill of Rights and Other Amendments to the Constitution and the 1st Amendment does NOT have the separation of church and state clause in it only the statement that Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, etc.
I find it troubling though that our President does not know the Declaration of Independence that he has quoted lately. Three times he left out that we are endowed by our CREATOR with certain inalienable rights!! He graduated from Harvard I believe.
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hollabackgurl | Oct 21, 2010, 05:52 PM EDT
She's a know-nothing in the original sense of the term, but of course she's also anti-immigrant too.
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DonMcGuinness | Oct 21, 2010, 06:32 AM EDT
The first amendment does NOT create a separation of Church and State.
It prevents the Government from establishing a church or a religion. Such as the religion of socialism.
And it prevents the Government from dictateing to the states, what if any religious ideas it can or can not freely excersize within the state or community.
The local community has the right under the constitution to determine and establish standards for their community.
The Federal Government has no constitutional right to abridge the right of the state in any way shape or form when it comes to religion within a community. Including what that community wishes to teach its children in PUBLIC schools.
Make no mistake, Socialism is a religion and when the Federal Government dictates to a state what it can and can not teach it is establishing a religion of the state.
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heybuldog69 | Oct 20, 2010, 11:37 PM EDT
The separation of Church and State Phrase came from a Thomas Jefferson commentary on the First Amedment.It is contained in the Letter to the Danbury Congregation whch he wrote in the early 1800's. The Pittburgh Kid is wrong in Stating it came from the Liberals in the 1960's.
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elektros | Oct 20, 2010, 07:25 PM EDT
PittsburghKid, the man who first spoke about separation of church and state was Thomas Jefferson. Relatively new, you say? Sure, and isn't everything in America relatively new?
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maloney | Oct 20, 2010, 07:22 PM EDT
O'Donnell may not be the picture perfect candidate but she is head & shoulders above the Dem. candidate from SC. Alvin Greene. She also isn't near as bad as Dem. House member from FLA. Allen Grayson. She knows the constitution better than Cahir, who gets paid to write lies. She uses less uppers than hollowbutt who preformed a blogging blitz on this post. I love how liberals will hide behind the constitution while at the same time try to destroy it.
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