Constitution is 400 Years Old

[Ben]

I'd be more inclined to let slide her mixing up of the moon and mars (though that in itself is ridiculously boneheaded for the "leadership' of our country). I demand that someone in her position know the constitution inside and out, and even if her interpretation is somewhat different than mine, she should know the words and when they were written. That should be a basic required test before anyone can even run for elected office.

[Tallpine]

No.  There was a time when our leaders were our intellectual betters.  Like those guys with wigs and funny pants who founded the country.
Now, we're led by morons who couldn't intelectualize themselves out of a wet paper bag, who are elected by people who think that they are owed something by someone, and who can't differentiate you're and your.

Your wright. 

[Triphammer]

Your wright. 

But, what than?

[Triphammer]

I'd be more inclined to let slide her mixing up of the moon and mars (though that in itself is ridiculously boneheaded for the "leadership' of our country). I demand that someone in her position know the constitution inside and out, and even if her interpretation is somewhat different than mine, she should know the words and when they were written. That should be a basic required test before anyone can even run for elected office.

This. If my plumber was wrong about some esoteric bit of NEC. If my butcher couldn't sweat copper, so what. The sorriest bit were those commenters making excuses for her lack of basic, job related, facts.

[vaskidmark]

No.  There was a time when our leaders were our intellectual betters.  Like those guys with wigs and funny pants who founded the country.
Now, we're led by morons who couldn't intelectualize themselves out of a wet paper bag, who are elected by people who think that they are owed something by someone, and who can't differentiate you're and your.

That may be true when comparing those dudes to today's population.  But back then they were a mix of the middle and upper-middle classes of their day.  Not the idle rich and not the backwoods bumpkin.

It says more about the decline of learning (as opposed to education) since then.  I'd hate to have to pick a "Dream Team" of APSers to go up against just one of the folks in the founding generation.

stay safe.

[roo_ster]

That may be true when comparing those dudes to today's population.  But back then they were a mix of the middle and upper-middle classes of their day.  Not the idle rich and not the backwoods bumpkin.

It says more about the decline of learning (as opposed to education) since then. I'd hate to have to pick a "Dream Team" of APSers to go up against just one of the folks in the founding generation.

stay safe.

I bet I would take Gouverneur Morris in either a sprint or long distance run.  After his 30th year or so.

OTOH, he would eat my rhetorical lunch.