in case someone on the internet hasn't heard it yet

[rivendellrose]

No, Christine O'Donnell (the Tea Party senate candidate for Delaware) really haven't got the slightest fricking clue what's in the Constitution.

Quoted from the Washington Post description of the situation:

"Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?" O'Donnell asked [her Democratic opponent, Chris Coons].

When 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?"

If you listen to the audio or watch the video, you will notice that she sounds utterly flabbergasted at this revelation. I can only imagine she was thinking "That isn't what Glenn Beck told me!"

If you want to be in the Senate, please at least demonstrate a vague awareness of what that Constitution that you will be swearing to uphold actually says, dumbass.

Comments

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see them try.

When 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?"

That puts the lie to that idea pretty easily. It's not a word-choice issue - she's actually that incompetent.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

It's even more overtly absurd when you hear the audio. She's clearly just plain dumbfounded. This was not a question that got the result that she expected in the slightest.