Delusional: Christine O'Donnell: I Won That First Amendment Debate!

[kpete]

Christine O'Donnell: I Won That First Amendment Debate!

The media and most viewers of the Oct. 19 Delaware Senate debate thought Republican Christine O'Donnell's question about the First Amendment directed at Democrat Chris Coons was a pretty epic gaffe for the hardcore tea party favorite and Constitution proponent.

O'Donnell did not see it that way, however.

"It's really funny the way that the media reports things," O'Donnell told ABC News this morning. "After that debate my team and I we were literally high fiving each other thinking that we had exposed he doesn't know the First Amendment, and then when we read the reports that said the opposite we were all like 'what?'"

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/christine-odonnell-i-won-that-first-amendment-debate-video.php?ref=fpa

[spanone]

1. well, she also thinks she's qualified to be a United States Senator

[deutsey]

2. She's dangerously insane

I shudder to think what will happen if she somehow wins.

[uncommon]

3. Jesus H. She was laughed down by the audience, literally.

It doesn't say the words "separation of church and state" but it says the same damn thing as "separation of church and state" - she is an idiot.

[BanzaiBonnie]

10. But she thought they were laughing WITH her

Did you see the look on her face? She is delusional.

[malaise]

14. She makes idiots look good

WTF!!!!!

[Segami]

4. Breaking: Its confirmed. Christine O'Donnell's errr ' brain ' has disconnected from its ' stem.'

[polichick]

5. Good grief, even after the debate she didn't realize the audience was laughing at her. nt

[Winterblues]

23. She still doesn't, and she still doesn't understand what the 1st Amendment says.

She really is deficient in the thought process.

[arbusto_baboso]

6. And other Teapublicans will mostly agree with her.

Facts don't matter to them. Data don't matter. They cling to their delusional worldview, regardless.

[Renew Deal]

7. If that really happened then her and her people are completely clueless

Though I think they are anyway.

[Barack_America]

9. "her people" are Palin's debate prep people.

"completely clueless"

So, um, yeah.

[Phentex]

12. Sounds like the way Palin would have responded too...

Like YEAH I meant to say that!

[Renew Deal]

26. That explains the similarity in style and substance

Confusion and cluelessness abounds.

[Barack_America]

8. I didn't watch the media reports, I watched the video...

Her words, without commentary. And she made an ass of herself with her obvious lack of knowledge regarding the Constitution.

[BlueDemKev]

11. OOOOOH.......let me give you a STANDING ovation, Christie!

....for helping to keep the Republicans in the Senate MINORITY!

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :sarcasm:

[Lint Head]

13. She also thinks she's not a witch.

[BanzaiBonnie]

15. She's dumb and thinks she know it all

That makes her as dangerous as Bush II.

[arbusto_baboso]

16. Typical Rethug: Ignorant as meatloaf and thinks she's Einstein.

That's their M.O.

[BlueDemKev]

38. Oh no, she's not EINSTEIN....

...she's "YOU"! :puke:

[arbusto_baboso]

40. Not by a longshot is she me.

I have an IQ above room temperature.

Actually, my IQ is above room temp for Palm Springs.

I think Christine might actually be borderline "mentally challenged".

[Bigmack]

17. I run into that shit all the time...

posting on newspaper LTTE comments.

Somebody posted about the health care supposedly being added to wages and taxed. I posted three different debunks.. snopes, politifact, and factcheck.

The woman posted back... one item. "Snopes is left-leaning and can't be trusted." That's all she had, but she refused to admit she got that shit from one of those righwingnut viral emails and was wrong.

Another guy posted that Teddy Roosevelt was a traitor and sold out to J P Morgan.

They are not delusional... that's too clinical a term.

They are what psychologists call "nuttier than squirrel shit".

[HughBeaumont]

18. "Reallah? Like, OMIGOD!"

Way to go TeaHadists.

[Iggo]

19. We were all like 'what?'

She wants to be a United States Senator, people!

:rofl:

[jaxx]

20. Can you imagine a House and Senate with these nuts in there?

Total chaos. The Constitution according to the teabaggers would make a mockery of every law we have. They interpret like the various church sects do, what ever they decide is what that paper really means. It's a scary thought.

They are really batshitcrazy.

[Gold Metal Flake]

21. What they believe it "fact". And it was aimed at the growing population of the American Taliban.

Their policy is that there is no "separation of church and state" because that phrase is not in the constitution. Because of this linguistic trick, they win. This hyper-literal view is all they need. The fools they market to understand that this is how they progress on the road to instituting a theocracy. Truth is not important. Image is everything.

She is growing her base whether she wins the election or not. This is not stupidity, it's tactics.

[WinkyDink]

25. "Truth is not important. Image is everything." Has been, for a VERY long time.

[DeschutesRiver]

44. "American Taliban" - that is exactly how dh and I have been referring to this group as well. nt

[WinkyDink]

22. "We create our own reality."

The source of the term is a quotation in an October 17, 2004, New York Times Magazine article by writer Ron Suskind, quoting an unnamed aide to George W. Bush (later attributed to Karl Rove<1>):

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."<2>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community

[deutsey]

34. That always reminds me of O'Brien in "1984"

"You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal. Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party. That is the fact that you have got to relearn, Winston."

"We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation--anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. I do not wish to, because the Party does not wish it. You must get rid of those nineteenth-century ideas about the laws of Nature. We make the laws of Nature."

I think Orwell meant for this book to be a cautionary tale, however, not an instruction manual.

[Lucy Goosey]

24. Wow...talk about lack of ability to read a room...

It was apparently evident to everyone but Christine that people were laughing AT her. At a LAW school. Candidate fail.

This is one of those cases in which the Russell quote in my sig line applies beautifully: "fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves" - where is her insane self-confidence coming from? She certainly hasn't earned it based on brains or substance.

[Botany]

27. Man is she an idiot

Sarah Palin is staying away from her.

The 5 Freedoms* :rofl: she really thought she had out debating a lawyer from Yale
who had clerked for the Federal Bench?

He really ripped her, "let us not make this about who knows the Constitution better and let
the moderator ask the questions."



*
Press
Speech
Religion
Assembly
Petition the Government

O'Donnell is just a Sarah Palin who use periods.

[Hubert Flottz]

28. She's probably gotten the word from Karl that the voting machine

fix is in this time.

[MiniMe]

29. He quoted the first amendment word for word

Did she think the law school students were laughing at Coons? Sorry lady, even the law students figured out pretty quickly that you were clueless

[LostInAnomie]

30. That's the problem with the truly stupid...

... you can't convince them they are stupid.

[HuckleB]

41. +1

[chelsea0011]

31. 1st Amendment for Tea Baggers...The world revolves around me.

[truebrit71]

32. Completely out of her tiny, tiny mind...

...but nice to see the presstitutes giving her lots and lots of free time...funny how when they went to Coons for a 'rebuttal' they had "technical difficulties" and could only manage a phone interview wherein George Suckedalotofcock asked a series of "why do you hate rich people" questions..

It's getting to the point where I just don't want to switch the telly on in the morning anymore...we stopped watching the CBS morning show because Harry "our guy" Smith and his simpering female colleague didn't even bother to hide their disdain of anyone with a (D) as their party affiliation. Plus, if their interview questions contained anything softer than the gooey softballs they gently lobbed at the Rethuglicans they would melt. So we switched to ABC and initially things seemed marginally better, but as the political season began to pick up, so did the number of 'exclusive' interviews with republican political operatives, and the underlying, "President Obama is deeply unpopular" and the "Dems are going to get their asses kicked" memes started to get louder and louder..Nary a morning would go by without some angry white person being given free airtime to talk down and ridicule the President. These would be the very same people that would have called for the public hanging of any Democrat if they had dared to say anything remotely similar when bush was in office mind you, for daring to question the President "in a time of war".

One can only hope that after this religiously-insane, constitutionally-challenged dingbat gets her 'masturbation is a sin' arse handed to her on election day that she will once and for all disappear from the national airwaves...

[Scurrilous]

33. LOL

:thumbsup:

[Beaverhausen]

35. Teabaggers and others on the right really don't think separation of church and state are in...

...the constitution. They are told that it's not there, the first amendment says no such thing, that Jefferson never actually wrote that phrase in a letter and in fact it came from the Nazis.

These people are being brainwashed by fox and Rush and all the other crazies out there.

[txaslftist]

48. I'm all for separation of church and state...

but it's not in the first amendment.

The establishment clause says we won't have a national church, that's all it says. For a long time various states continued to have religious tests for offices, and that was all hunky dory with the various founders who came from those states.

I listened to both what she said and what he responded with, and it is clear that she comes across as a ditz. But if the question is "does the first amendment say there is a wall between church and the state", the answer is clearly "no".

Separation of church and state is something that has evolved over time, and I think it's a good thing, and I think the roots or origins of it can be found in the First Amendment.

But separation of church and state is not in the first amendment.

[bullwinkle428]

36. I guess mouse brains are now being transplanted into humans!

[emulatorloo]

37. Yeah, this pretty much proves it. n/t

[Canuckistanian]

39. Ha ha, Christine, you sure fooled 'em!

You actually WON, while everyone else in the room thought you were a fucking idiot.

Shows how much THEY know.

[alfredo]

42. She also claimed she solved a Rubix cube in one second

[ellie]

43. OK. She is just messing around with us

She can't be that crazy. Can she?

[pinboy3niner]

45. OMG! I'm all like, "She's toast." nt

[toddwv]

46. The disconnect is evident during the debate you can see that she is confused...

she thinks that the audience is laughing WITH her and not AT her. You can actually see her with a little "victory" smile as the audience guffaws in incredulity of her vapid response.

[Brother Buzz]

47. Mirror, mirror on the wall....

[pokerfan]

49. She also thinks she attended Yale and Oxford

and apparently they don't cover constitutional law at Hogwarts.

[redirish28]

50. Pretty house sorry no one home... n/t

[RagAss]

51. Thank Heavens this is Delaware. If it was any southern state she'd be up by 25%

[BlueDemKev]

55. You got that right!

The scary thing is there are SO many people like Ms. O'Donnell here in Dixie and trust me, and you will be seeing a lot of folks like her start getting elected to Congress in the next couple of election cycles. O'Donnell has gotten a lot of attention because she was the "first" major incident of the Tea Party Express' takeover of the GOP. If she were running in a state like Georgia, Alabama, or Louisiana, she'd be heralded as a "fresh voice", "intelligent woman", "proven leader who has strong values", "honest", etc.

Delaware voters....PLEASE DO NOT STAY HOME ON ELECTION DAY because you think Coons has already won. No chances can be taken, and your Senate race could very well determine who controls the Senate these next two years. Please vote early, if at all possible.

[rucky]

52. But she went to Claremont!

for a whole week

[Motown_Johnny]

53. so this means Nobody associated with her campaign understands the First Amendment

[donheld]

54. She won in the Idiot category.

Will this woman ever wake up to see what a laughing stock she is?

[Ganja Ninja]

56. So you really can't fix stupid. n/t