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"Area Man Passionate Defender of What He Imagines Constitution to Be Spurred by an administration he believes to be guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 47, is a vehement defender of ideas he seems to think are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and principles that brave men have fought and died for solely in his head… Mortensen said his admiration for the loose assemblage of vague half-notions he calls the Constitution has only grown over time. He believes that each detail he has pulled from thin air—from prohibitions on sodomy and flag-burning, to mandatory crackdowns on immigrants, to the right of citizens not to have their hard-earned income confiscated in the form of taxes—has contributed to making it the best framework for governance "since the Ten Commandments.""

--The Onion

People who have no clue what is in and not in the Constitution ITT:

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"In the opinion of Arlington Mayor Russell Wiseman, President Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday night on the war in Afghanistan was deliberately timed to block the Christian message of the "Peanuts" television Christmas special. Wiseman made the statements on his Facebook page, where he declared Obama to be a Muslim. Only people on Wiseman's "friend's list" had access to the post. He has more than 1,600 friends on Facebook. [...] At another point he said, "you know, our forefathers had it written in the original Constitution that ONLY property owners could vote, if that has stayed in there, things would be different........""

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/dec/04/mayor-fires-at-obama-online/

12/4/2009 12:07:20 PM

The Onion.

12/4/2009 12:11:12 PM

To be taken seriously, of course.

12/4/2009 12:12:30 PM

Yeah, most people have no idea what's in the Constitution, which is a real problem, since every one of those dumbasses (except felons and those under age 18) have a voice in the government.


The irony is that most of the people pointing at laughing at this caricature of a Joe the Plumber type moron are at LEAST as bad when it comes to trying to do all manner of things prohibited by the Constitution.

12/4/2009 1:17:15 PM

To be sure, but the quote was Exhibit A.

The Constitution doesn't define who can vote-- it's left to the states.

12/4/2009 1:46:07 PM

You're preaching to the choir.

Just remember that notion when it comes to about 50,000 other things that you'd like for the federal government to define or do.

12/4/2009 1:52:28 PM

The constitution is a shitty and incomplete document. It really needs to be rewritten. I nominate myself to head the committee to undertake this forthwith.

12/4/2009 1:57:00 PM

haha, good thread Boone.

I read the Onion article too. Not 2 days after I read it, my dad was complaining about politics and he said "it says in the dang Constitution, 'One Nation Under God'!!!!"

12/4/2009 3:12:05 PM

lol, perhaps he meant the preamble of the NC Constitution?

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"We, the people of the State of North Carolina, grateful to Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of Nations, for the preservation of the American Union and the existence of our civil, political and religious liberties, and acknowledging our dependence upon Him for the continuance of those blessings to us and our posterity, do, for the more certain security thereof and for the better government of this State, ordain and establish this Constitution. "

12/4/2009 10:27:30 PM

What I find most ironic/humorous is all of these conservatives who wail and cry and moan about the need to take away government size and power while waving their prop copy of the Constitution without ever mentioning the fact that the purpose of the Constitution was to, in fact, give the government substantially more power. I'd respect them a lot more if they talked about going back to the Articles of Confederation but then again I don't give the sheeple who worship Palin and live in Glennbeckistan that much credit to actually know unrevised history.

12/4/2009 10:59:53 PM

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"Just remember that notion when it comes to about 50,000 other things that you'd like for the federal government to define or do."

Even Supreme Court judges have this problem too...

Justice William O. Douglas wrote in 1965 that “specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance.”

12/4/2009 11:03:55 PM