Today is Constitution Day.
The Constitution has been through a lot these past 7 1/2 years. Bush the Lesser has stated to aides that it's just an old piece of paper -- and he has treated it like an old piece of paper instead of the framework for our country and society.
At the court house, a lawyer mentioned to me that it was Constitution Day and that she was going to speak at a school.
"That's nice," I said. She's on the other side in a case, and I was being civil. "Are you going to talk about anything specific?" I asked.
She said that she wasn't supposed to talk about anything that might be politically inflammatory.
"Doesn't leave too much to talk about," I said. "Ask them if they think that it would be a good idea if the president should be an expert on the Constitution. That's a neutral question."
She had a blank look. "Then when they say, 'Yes!," you could point out that one of the candidates for president taught Constitutional law at the prestigious University of Chicago law school."
That would be Obama.
Posted by Bill at September 17, 2008 06:24 PM