O'Donnell: separation of church from state"not in Constitution"

Originally Posted by tater

To think the republicans would have won handily, instead we get this moron running. She's an idiot. Read the text, she didn't know what was in the first amendment, she wasn't arguing that the exact wording was not there (as her backpedalling staff later said trying to save her stupid ass).

She's a low-grade moron. At best.

No one expects her to win in a clearly low populace blue state any way.

[tater]

Originally Posted by The Third Man

No one expects her to win in a clearly low populace blue state any way.

No, the Republican she ran against in the primary would have STOMPED Coons. He was polling way ahead. Coons was picked as a sacrifice because he simply could not win—then this utter moron won the primary. This seat was not in play, it was a "gimme" for the Republicans before lil miss stupid.

A little more context?

Democratic opponent Chris Coons, who argued that local schools should teach science rather than religion, at which point O’Donnell jumped in. “Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?” she asked.


The audience at Widener Law School was taken aback, with shouts of “whoa” and laughter coming from the crowd.
Coons then pointed to the First Amendment, which states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

“You’re telling me the First Amendment does?” O’Donnell interrupted to ask.

Following the next question, Coons revisited the remark — likely thinking he had caught O’Donnell in a flub — saying, “I think you’ve just heard from my opponent in her asking ‘where is the separation of church and state’ show that she has a fundamental misunderstanding.”
“That’s in the First Amendment?” O’Donnell again asked.
“Yes,” Coons responded.

O’Donnell was later able to score some points of her own off the remark, revisiting the issue to ask Coons if he could identify the “five freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment.”

Coons named the separation of church and state, but could not identify the others — the freedoms of speech, press, to assemble and petition — and asked that O’Donnell allow the moderators ask the questions. “I guess he can’t,” O’Donnell said.

Seems it was Coons, the self avowed Marxist, who didn't know the constitution.