Oh, for Christ's sake...

Hoo boy.

The latest one to come out of the wingnut closet is that Barack Obama doesn't like the Constitution! ZOMG! He considers it a "flawed document." Listen here:

The "flaw" that he's referring to is the Three Fifths Compromise. Now, I don't know about you, but I consider that to be a giant fucking flaw.

Hell, I think that there are two fundamental flaws in the Constitution as it was written in 1787. Aside from only counting slaves as 3/5 of a person, it also didn't give women the right to vote, a right near and dear to my heart.

But I guess that makes me some kind of Commie Marxist Terrorist.

Quotation of the Day:

I posted this quotation once before but, given the political situation, I felt it bears repeating:

"Any time that a liberal points out that the wealthy are disproportionately benefiting from Bush's tax policies, Republicans shout, "class warfare!"

In her book A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Barbara Tuchman writes about a peasant revolt in 1358 that began in the village of St. Leu and spread throughout the Oise Valley. At one estate, the serfs sacked the manor house, killed the knight, and roasted him on a spit in front of his wife and kids. Then, after ten or twelve peasants violated the lady, with the children still watching, they forced her to eat the roasted flesh of her dead husband and then killed her.

That is class warfare.

Arguing over the optimum marginal tax rate for the top one percent is not."


- Al Franken