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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Pittsburghkid | Oct 20, 2010, 06:41 PM EDT
O'Donnell is right. The Constitution never mentions Sepatation of Church and State. The Constitution does state that the Federal Government can not have a sponsered church like the "Church of England".
The Constitution goes no futher on the subject of church and state.
The term a wall between church and state was never in the Constitution. It is an interptation of the Constitution, base on liberal thinking.
Up until 1962, pray was in all public schools. This idea of the separation of church and state is relatively new.
Nov. 2, Americans are going to the polls to return America to it's roots.
I love Ireland almost as much as I love America. I hope that O'Doherty is an exception.
The No NOthings were an anti-immagration group of a different time.
Illegal immigration is a real problem for the U.S., U.K., France and Germany.
Wait until the Muslims start disrupting Ireland, you will welcome the British back.
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warrenpoint00 | Oct 20, 2010, 06:40 PM EDT
Christine o donnell a know nothing. Tell us something we dont know Cahir.Pack all them kooks up an head them off to Alaska to the queen bee of kooks.God bless America
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hollabackgurl | Oct 20, 2010, 05:06 PM EDT
That's all you got left in your bag of subterfuge Southernman? Your unqualified candidate is crashing and burning due to her own ineptness and you want to call it sexism rather than admit she's unqualified and a kook?
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Southernpride | Oct 20, 2010, 04:59 PM EDT
Cahir O'Doherty Has a lot of hate and anger towards women
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hollabackgurl | Oct 20, 2010, 04:13 PM EDT
P.S, the United States constitution isn't a "procedure." It's the founding document and the fabric of the nation. If you don't even know what's in it, how can you even dare to represent it?
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hollabackgurl | Oct 20, 2010, 04:07 PM EDT
Putting someone is a spacesuit doesn't make them an astronaut, Jim Thompson. Your parents generation knew that, why don't you?
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JimThompson | Oct 20, 2010, 03:44 PM EDT
Name me one politian that really knows anything excfept to take care of himself. She might do better than many currently in office since she might be able to learn correct procedures.
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hollabackgurl | Oct 20, 2010, 03:37 PM EDT
People like Christine O'Donnell are fundamentalists one step away from burning libraries and learning in favor of blind acceptance of gospel.
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Dompedro | Oct 20, 2010, 03:33 PM EDT
the comments are more revealing and funnier than the article!
But .... where does it say that cpflann can take away the vote of rightwingers? does someone else have control of the votes of, say, left wingers? Or are they the only ones to vote?
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vincem13 | Oct 20, 2010, 03:11 PM EDT
And Comrade Coons could only name one of the five freedoms protected in the 1st Amendment. Does he get a pass because you and he both have party membership cards with Putin's signature on them?
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cpflann | Oct 20, 2010, 02:58 PM EDT
One of the aims of the First Amendment is prevent ANY state religion-theistic or otherwise. Keep in mind what O'Donnell is promoting-the teaching of Creationism in the public schools, among other things. This is the same bunch that thinks that the Earth is only 6,000 years old, that the dinosaurs lived alongside humans and that Noah's Ark is buried somewhere on Mt. Ararat. This is fundamentalist Christianity at its worst.
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BishopSean | Oct 20, 2010, 02:33 PM EDT
The Founding Fathers--including Jefferson and Franklin--were clear in wanting Christian moral philosophy to underpin our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. This has resulted in the greatest freedoms and prosperity in history. The USA is 1st country to legislate Freedom of Conscience and Religion. Secular humanists prefer to change this for moral relativism. By the way, Secular Humanism is a non-theistic religion, according to the US Supreme Court (1961 Torcaso v. Watkins). But most Americans have not decided to make Secular Humanism our nation's official religion. I hope we don't because that kind of thinking brought us Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Vorwoerd and Margaret Sanger. This topic is worth serious enquiry.
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Ratslayer | Oct 20, 2010, 02:10 PM EDT
No more SOCIALISM!!!! NO more POLICE, FIRE, COURTS, SANITATION, ETC. If yer house is on fire, put it out yerself! Freaking libs -- always thinking about others and not themselves!!
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cpflann | Oct 20, 2010, 01:34 PM EDT
I can't wait for this election to be over. I'm glad none of the right-wingers on this board have a vote. Christine is an embarrassment to the state of Delaware. She's raised enough money (95% from out of state) to live very comfortably for the next few years until Carper is up for re-election. Maybe she'll get a job for Fox News. She did say she has Hannity in her back pocket.
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