You know... morons
Clause 3, Article 6 of the United States Constitution:
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of theI added the emphasis.
several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the
United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation,
to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required
as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
During the work week, I watch Morning Joe on MSNBC while I eat breakfast. This morning some poll numbers were quoted - 12% believe that Barak Obama is a Muslim and 32% believe that he attended a madrassa. How much effort does it take to remain willfully ignorant?
I posted the quote above to remind people what our constitution says. Obama, a Muslim? No, but it does not matter. ...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
When Mitt Romney came to the Bush Library to speak, he should have quoted Clause 3, Article 6 and left. He should have kept repeating, "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States", until it penetrated the thick skulls of people trying to impose such a test.
Back to the poll numbers quoted on MSNBC. In a perfect world, when news people quote a poll showing a percentage of people believing something proven untrue the phrase, "you know... morons" should accompany the quote.
An example:
According to a 1999 Gallup poll, 6% of Americans believe that the Apollo moon landings were faked. You know... morons.*
It would ease my pain.
*You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons. - From Blazing Saddles
...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
2 comments:
I'd much rather Obama empathaize with Muslims allies figthing a foe that blows up Mosques.
If Obama would just tell Muslim comrades the same words Harry Hopkins spoke to Churchill back in 1941, I think Obama would dispell much of this fog over himself and Islam,
Few dramatists could match the poignant scene when Britain stood alone against the Nazi power that dominated a conquered or fawningly neutral Europe. Roosevelt sent his envoy Harry Hopkins to Churchill. At dinner Hopkins quoted from the Book of Ruth: "Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people and their God my God," softly adding, "Even to the end." --From Meachem Franklin and Winston
He'll have the perfect forum in Baghdad to give an Ich bin ein Baghdadi speech. There are some awfully brave Muslims there who would appreciate that solidarity from him.
Just as a fine point of distinction... it sounds like you're saying that people shouldn't use religion as a deciding factor in voting because of that Constitutional clause- not true. The Constitution only limits the government from making a religious requirement- people are free to vote only for pastafarians if they choose.
That legal point aside, yes, they are morons.
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