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teenager please the managing editor of crooks and liars dot com she's got a
great you calm out about this obsession that many republicans seem to have with
amending the constitution and i have to say to you know i read the calm
there's i don't know that i would use the term obsession but there's a lot of
talk on the left also about amending the constitution to overturn
the effect of citizens united so it is on both sides right what's the
difference
well i i wouldn't say that i would say that when republicans want him in the
constitution they want to get people to your rights
so they watched women to have add the government subjects them to you know i'm
regulating their world
which is the person who demanded that they suggested on saturday night that
they have to be foreign uh... they want to take away citizenship
children were born here because after their parents are which is a throwback
to an old english law called corruption of blood
on and uh... one of the many reasons we fight a war
uh... so that we we could stand on our own as human beings as individuals and
not be judged and punish bike dozens of our fathers
began wondering that back
uh... as far as citizenship goes that sidelines so when we look at the of
potential to actually amend the constitution based on the requirements
he said
for uh...
for uh... corporations are people is that more likely or is that still of
very very big big hill to climb
well it's actually
you know in my opinion both out we have uh... democrats who say that they are
support the amendment seventy percent independence you say that it supported
seventy percent evening republicans
sixty percent of republicans support this kind of amendment so yes i think
that it is that
uh... has a broad-based support which could make it more likely
but also anytime you amend the constitution this is like this is a
sheehan's endeavored that takes
in twenty years it's not something you still over we can go
wind is the defense has to candy at
and that was intentional i was intended to be very deliberate and tim make
americans come together
and decide this
uh... you know with
you know at that silber majority across the country so i think the answer to
your question is really both when talking to a lot of concerns about the
constitution
at the mere suggestion that maybe not everything that was in the constitution
originally
is particularly relevant today there's so much anger how could i possibly
insult
them to the sacred document of the constitution and it seems to be lost on
a lot of these people that the if the constitution was perfect to start with
we wouldn't have had
over twenty amendments to it already
and that that seems to member one that seems to be pushed
pushed aside but as but secondly
is does it stand to reason that when something is written at the very start
of the country
changes may be necessary as that country goes from from one phase through
industrialization into kind of the the the phase we are now are my of my wrong
about that in my insulting the constitution
a well-dressed out he said resent and republicans and constitution in the same
kind of
couple senses they're which
are a little interest in the first place
not by the f_b_i_ psyche i thought the segment of the second is the best mina
ever
and everything in the past issues particulars like willl
well check this out
disagreement
not in the original constitution ratified later interesting enough
an outbreak by edgar
period that statement
and i think that we can have a reasonable discussion about
the constitution are but i think that this
in using uh... or pretending that the constitution is scripture that it's it's
a holy texts
uh... is uh... it's detrimental to our country i think that the the founding
fathers allotted benjamin kary with each other so you are going to find
affiant founding father who probably agrees with you that doesn't mean that
what date but start dot into the constitution i think that could be very
fathers had no idea in the country would last this long they thought they would
all be arrested a couple of years and executed
uh... you know that this bike
this would be really shocking ten down the hall so that they were kind of
deified would be i'd shop
packing to them
so i've got no i think that the that
arm mores have changed out you know how we do u women have strengths change how
we view minorities how we view immigrants
has changed out how we do you do you want
has changed all we were really you know content
uh... ticked off adding one and now there would be our darker based on life
and death
we like them to be speeded english so
candidates get your at it stands to reason that uh...
you we should have been in trade discussion
uh... about this tracking document what that means because right now
uh...
image for ninety range from the occupiers
and a lot of them
really thought that if we had a ellie
actually organizer from say chicago's south side of that that would fix
everything
and everything that we had in trickle-down economics analyst and
economic inequality
we've has suffered from in the last decade outback
the last ten years under the bush administration
when all the kind of made better because we would have this guy
who the right promise was radical
right and you know the the other thing you mentioned also in their is founding
fathers and i think that's interesting because you refer to the mike huckabee
uh... republican form whatever i tuned into a little bit of it and when newt
gingrich was sitting in the chair
one of the questions from the incredibly
uh... bizarre panel of three republican attorneys general which was as one of
the strangest things i've ever seen act
it was really where it was like
and or one of the worst thing that ever happened what do you think about that it
was and one of the questions asked newt gingrich was who's your favorite
founding father
and it's not fun it was there was such a bizarre questioning
it's like what's your favorite bible passage which is the mere fact that the
question is taken seriously suggests the real problem to me and how we're picking
these presidential candidates
david weiss what are your favorite stripe on the plan
that perot is the third white one down from the top
becky with her like delegates it's ridiculous
but i mean that it was it was a blessing a ridiculous and i suppose to be you
know this kind of a extractors was trying to show republicans that they've
really shouldn't be depressed about their candidates right
i don't really know what the stop all questions were i don't think that
actually helps the g_o_p_ in any meaningful way i think that they should
be much tougher on these candidates because they are going to go against an
incumbent
on anything really want to windy the presidency they can just sabotage the
nation they actually might have to have someone that people can vote for but you
know i'm not a strategist idea now
and just report the facts no absolutely and there was nothing more pathetic than
the questions from that bundy who who seemed to be recently reading them and
not even reading the very well strangest debate so far but i think the use macs
trump debate
might pop it will have to say
excellent till christmas present a disaster correct this will all be you
know in a sugar comma and then delete runs i mean i can't be now
middle east river plums dancing in my head makes me glad i'm jewish i have to
worry about christmas presents like that
uh... tentatively managing editor of creeks and liars dot com uh... give up
the good work good to see you
thanks david