WHY DO REPUBLICANS HATE AMERICA SO?
{Posted in Politics, Posts By Scott, Rants, Video on November 30th, 2006 by Scott }Recently on CNN there was an interview conducted by that cretinous mouthbreather Glenn Beck of Keith Ellison the congressman elect from Minnesota who happens to be a Muslim. Beck esseantially challenged Ellison to prove to him that he was not a terrorist. Rather than crawl through the television screen and beat the loathsome Beck to death Ellison attempted to educate Beck about what it means to be an American and, well, here's the video courtesy of Jon Stewart and The Daily Show.
As if that weren't awful enough, both for the congressman AND all of us Americans who unlike Beck are actually patriotic and love our country, now Ellison has been subjected to a virtual tarring and feathering at the hands of the wingnut republican amen chorus on talk radio and in the blogosphere when it was announced that the congressman intends to take his oath of office on the Koran – a not unreasonable thing to do given that he's uh, well, like….. MUSLIM!
Lunatic winger and hopeless coward Dennis "they're coming to kill all of us in our beds" Prager of talk radio fame and the blog Town Hall weighed in with this little piece of "I hate the Constitution" logic,
“America is interested in only one book, the Bible.” Directly addressing Ellison, he added “If you are incapable of taking an oath on that book, don’t serve in Congress.”
Of course this ignores the fact that Jews elected to office routinely swear allegiance to the Constitution on the Torah. And speaking of the Constitution, this is what Article VI of that document has to say on this very subject,
ARTICLE VI "The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."
Got it? I mean it really doesn't get any easier to understand than that now, does it?
And since these idiots like Prager are so deeply concerned with how congressman elect Ellison swears his loyalty to our Constitution we should probably ask what about some of our past presidents, what did they swear their oaths of office on? Well, three of them, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester Arthur and Theodore Roosevelt didn't even use a bible and all three were republicans and Teddy is viewed as a saint by most of those who infest the lunatic right.
Obviously, shitbags like Prager and CNN's Glenn Beck can't stand the Constitution and so I'll ask this again; why is it that so many republicans so obviously hate America and Americans?





