Lecturing Americans To ‘Reread’ Constitution, Herman Cain Confuses It With Declaration of Independence
"You know, those ideals that we live by, we believe in, your parents believed in, they instilled in you. When you get to the part about “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” don’t stop there, keep reading. Cause that’s when it says “when any form of government becomes destructive of those ideals, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.” We’ve got some altering and some abolishing to do!
Sadly, Cain’s Bachmannesque ignorance of the nation’s founding documents makes him well-suited to compete in a GOP presidential primary. Republicans invented an utterly meritless constitutional objection to the Affordable Care Act, they’ve called everything from Social Security to Medicare to child labor laws unconstitutional, and they’ve even pretended that the Constitution allows them to strip Americans of their citizenship. So Cain needs to look no further than his own party if he wants to find people who are more interested in rewriting the Constitution than in actually reading it.
Luckily, Cain is just another sideshow. Ignorance is certainly no bar to Repug candidacy, but the combination of the same name as the first biblical murderer and his Africa Black skin tone scares the shit outta the old white Repug base. He's one of a wave of blithering non-serious shit-stirrin' Repug non-contenders that I wish would STFU and get outta the way so the news cycle would be forced to concentrate on how ignorant and pandering and out of touch with reality are the few who have an actual chance at the nomination.
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