Huck Finning the Constitution-Republicans read fake version of Constitution

[kpete]

Republicans read fake version of Constitution
by oldhans117
Thu Jan 06, 2011 at 08:11:47 AM PST

Republicans to read an edited version of the Constitution not a true copy of the original document.

So the big plan of the republicans to open with a reading our Constitution is now going to a total fraud. They have edited out the parts they don't like. Of course the hapless Democrats will raise no objection to this and just roll over and die.

So no reading of the fact that African Americans only counted as 3/5 of a person. No mention that the holy perfect constitution allowed slavery.

Is anyone really surprised about this?

MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/6/933780/-Republicans-read-fake-version-of-Constitution

Posted at 10:45 AM ET, 01/ 6/2011
Huck Finning the Constitution
By Adam Serwer

Earlier this week, there was an uproar over a publisher's plans to release an edition of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that would replace the N-word with the word "slave" in order to make the book more "appropriate" for schoolchildren. This kind of political correctness offers no justice to the descendants of slaves -- it merely papers over a terrible ugliness that is an essential part of American history.

Republicans, intending to make a big symbolic show of their reading of the Constitution, have now taken a similarly sanitized approach to our founding document. Yesterday they announced that they will be leaving out the superceded text in their reading of the Constitution on the House floor this morning, avoiding the awkwardness of having to read aloud the "three fifths compromise," which counted slaves as only three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and apportionment.

MORE:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/01/huck_finning_the_constitution.html
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/house-reading-amended-slavery-free-constitution.php?ref=fpb
http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/05/original-u-s-constitution-will-not-be-read-in-entirety-on-house-floor/

[meegbear]

1. If you're gonna make a big thing outta reading it ...

READ IT ALL!

[Denninmi]

2. Ironic, isn't it, considering a lot of them are probably closet racists.

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[eppur_se_muova]

8. Only the ones ...

that aren't overt racists.

[Demeter]

3. I'd Delete Obsolete or Revised Language

because those fools would probably not notice that it wasn't in effect anymore...selective blindness, just like scaley Scalia.

[Enrique]

4. it could have been embarrassing for them

certain congressmen might applaud when they read the 3/5 language.

[woodsprite]

5. If I were a Dem sitting there, I'd have a copy I be reading along

with them and call them out on everything they read differently or left out.

Every single Dem there should be doing just that.

[onethatcares]

10. perhaps Alan Grayson would have been our joe wilson member

I sure do wish so. But, here in sunny floriduh Alan had to go.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. This was a sham from the very beginning.

The U.S. Constitution, abridged.

I say you pay close attention to what they remove.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. But...I thought the Constitution was handed down to George Washington on Mount Sinai...

...I don't know why we wouldn't want to read it as it was handed unto Him.

It's also why when it comes to theology, I insist we discuss all 15 Commandments.

[FiveGoodMen]

9. They will later claim that only those sections read into the record are legitimate

[Uncle Joe]

11. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[underpants]

12. this has to be at the top of the page

Hi kpete! You will LOVE this
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x128886

[IronHorse]

13. The entire thing was a SHOW

What a waste of time. The Republicans don't know how to govern, so they do bullshit like this. They make me want to puke, I swear to God.