At 05:12 PM 2/26/2004 -0500 Jon Gabriel wrote:
>>A great quote from ABC's The Note blog on the Constitutional
>>Amendment:
>>
>>"Whatever one thinks about the merits of such an amendment, we are
>>amazed (OK: not really) at the degree to which the [mainstream press]
>>casts the President's decision in purely political terms -- rather
>>than a response to the tens of millions of real Americans who are
>>fundamentally freaked out by what is going on in (Nancy Pelosi's) San
>>Francisco and (John Kerry's) Massachusetts."
>
>Are you _really_ taking the stance that amending the Constitution is no big
>deal? Are you saying that having a sitting President endorse a
>constitutional amendment based on a moral, not politically-necessary
>judgement (equivalent to Prohibition, perhaps, as opposed to offering women
>and African-Americans the right to vote) is _nothing_ to be concerned with?
I think that almost every amendment is based on a moral judgement.
For example, the amendment giving the Distict of Columbia three electoral
votes was certainly not politically necessary, but was based upon a moral
judgement.
At any rate, the point of the quote was criticizing media coverage of
Bush's support of the FMA solely on the grounds of political calcuations -
and not on the principles that might actually motivate his support.
>The Constitution was not meant to be a static document, but a living,
>adapting one.
Translation:
It is o.k. for liberal judges to radically redefine the Constitution in
ways that the writers, signers, and voters of that document never imagined.
For a conservative President to propose that we change the Constitution
by actually taking a vote on it, however, is an absolutely horrible attempt
to alter a sacred document.
I understand now.
JDG
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