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Liberal journalist deems Constitution too damn hard to read – it’s “not a clear document”
Radio Vice Online ^ | Dec. 30, 2010 | Steve McGough

Posted on 12/30/2010 12:17:29 PM PST by Steve495

Come now Ezra Klein, economic and domestic columnist and blogger for the Post and master of … well … nothing. Your argument is that the Constitution is too hard to understand so we should just ignore it? When people actually start reading this founding document and figure out it is being blatantly ignored by leadership, Klein does what any good socialist blogger would do – inform his readers the document is irrelevant and not worthy of our time.

Klein argues the founders could not comprehend what the United States would look like or need hundreds of years from now, so the document itself is now pretty much worthless.

"My friends on the right don’t like to hear this, but the Constitution is not a clear document. Written more than 200 years ago, when America had 13 states and very different problems, it rarely speaks directly to the questions we ask it."

Oh yes it does Mr. Klein.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: constitution; ezraklein; federalism; klein
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To: longtermmemmory

Lots of Coms in this country.


21 posted on 12/30/2010 12:41:27 PM PST by JPG (YES SHE CAN!)
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To: Steve495
Unlike, say, Gravity's Rainbow.
22 posted on 12/30/2010 12:42:37 PM PST by nina0113
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To: Steve495

What a coincidence that a document that defines a society that limits centralized power is difficult to understand by those who covet that same centralized power.


23 posted on 12/30/2010 12:42:51 PM PST by The Duke
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To: Steve495
Written more than 200 years ago, when America had 13 states and very different problems, it rarely speaks directly to the questions we ask it."

Oh yes it does Mr. Klein. You just don't like the answers it gives you.

24 posted on 12/30/2010 12:45:39 PM PST by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: Steve495

The idea of personal freedom with limited government intrusion is so foreign to them they can’t even understand it in writing.


25 posted on 12/30/2010 12:49:58 PM PST by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
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To: Steve495

Barack Obama is on record (tape actually) saying that he’s troubled by the limits the Constitution puts on government.

We know what they are and that they preach sedition against the very foundation of this nation.


26 posted on 12/30/2010 12:50:19 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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To: Steve495
Klein and his ilk might be interested to know that the 85 newspaper essays which came to be known as THE FEDERALIST were written by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay as explanations of the Constitution to farmers in upstate New York.

Thomas Jefferson's records indicate that they were designated by the Board of Visitors of his University of Virginia to be taught there as the text for its law school. "'The Federalist'", the Board minutes indicate, "constitute 'an authority to which appeal is habitually made by all, and rarely declined or denied by any as evidence of the general opinion of those who framed, and of those who accepted the Constitution of the U. S., on questions as to its genuine meaning'" (Quoted from Thomas Jefferson's record of the meeting). (Quoted from p. 225, "Our Ageless Constitution."

Should Mr. Klein feel that he is up to reading these explanations of this Consitution he finds to be so difficult, perhaps he might better understand the protections for liberty of that document so admired by generations of intellectual giants who love liberty throughout the world.

27 posted on 12/30/2010 12:50:43 PM PST by loveliberty2
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To: Ditto
Written more than 200 years ago, when America had 13 states and very different problems, it rarely speaks directly to the questions we ask it."

Question #1, how can we usher in Communism/Socialism/Marxism without a bloody revolution?

Question #2, can we toss out the parts we don't like by judicial decree instead of changes by approved majority of the legisture and states?

28 posted on 12/30/2010 12:52:25 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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To: Steve495

"it rarely speaks directly to the questions we ask it"

 

i believe the founders intended for it to be read (preferably without moving your lips, Ezra)

29 posted on 12/30/2010 12:53:17 PM PST by sten
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To: Steve495
Is it possible to get a law passed requiring these people to take a literacy test before they become journalists?

In view of the 1st amendment, that is probably not going very far. Maybe the commerce clause would work. They seem to pile all kinds of excrement in that bag.

30 posted on 12/30/2010 12:53:34 PM PST by An Old Man
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To: a fool in paradise

He also stated “We must lay a new foundation”.
He told us what he intended!

What do you have to do to “lay a new foundation”?
Destroy the old one, of course.

1 Cor 3:11
For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.


31 posted on 12/30/2010 12:57:07 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Steve495
Feel free to leave a message or opinion for this FAR LEFT CLUELESS, MOONBAT, as I just did. LINK
32 posted on 12/30/2010 1:01:00 PM PST by Conservative Vermont Vet ((One of ONLY 37 Conservatives in the People's Republic of Vermont. Socialists and Progressives All))
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To: Steve495

Our Constitution is timeless because human nature is static.


33 posted on 12/30/2010 1:08:41 PM PST by Jacquerie ((N)or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . The forgotten clause.)
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To: Steve495

Compared to the bills Democrats have to “deem passed” because they’re too hard to understand, the Constitution is a first grade primer.


34 posted on 12/30/2010 1:09:40 PM PST by RoadTest (Religion is a substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
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To: RoadTest

the really good about his idiocy is that it demonstrates just how important, how critical, how central the U.S. Constitution is.

This is becoming like the battle of 1812 when the Brits bombed Fort McHenry. Instead, now, it’s the liberals bombing the U.S. Constitution.


35 posted on 12/30/2010 1:25:34 PM PST by bioqubit
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To: Steve495

The Constitution speaks very well to the questions, Ezra. You just don’t like the answers!


36 posted on 12/30/2010 1:26:22 PM PST by Oldpuppymax
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To: Steve495

Wow.


37 posted on 12/30/2010 1:28:46 PM PST by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: Steve495

It’ll never be clear to a liberal, their thinking is to skewed. They look at the world in an entirely different perspective. Example: Nothing wrong with late term abortions, in some cases they think it’s ok to kill a baby after it’s born. Then they want to give light sentences to murderers. I’d say most if not all liberals, especially the far left, are mentally unstable.


38 posted on 12/30/2010 1:37:18 PM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Steve495

Too many Liberals(Leftists)believe they know better than our founders and that they(Leftists) should be the givers and arbiters of rights that we Conservatives acknowledge come from God.Clearly,then Liberals are enemies of the Bill of Rights and therefore enemies of the People.


40 posted on 12/30/2010 1:48:20 PM PST by ninthson (thesouthwillriseagain)
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