Karen Hughes Teaches Constitutional Law

[Cool Hand]

Originally Posted by D. Scarlatti

Call me crazy, but I'd expect a somewhat enhanced comprehension of the U.S. Constitution from an Undersecretary of State, particularly one on a diplomatic mission to the Middle East in this day and age. Then again, Harriet Miers thinks there's a "proportional representation" requirement in the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, and she stands a good chance of sitting on the Supreme Court. Surely it can't be too much to ask for either to actually read the document before engaging it.

Not my point and you know it. Get on live TV with reporters jockeying to ask you questions and then try to recite the alphabet without pausing.

CH

[D. Scarlatti]

Originally Posted by Cool Hand

Not my point and you know it.

What is your point then? That, of all people, Karen Hughes got a little tongue-tied and misspoke in a reporters' scrum? Come on.

[Cool Hand]

Originally Posted by D. Scarlatti

What is your point then? That, of all people, Karen Hughes got a little tongue-tied and misspoke in a reporters' scrum? Come on.

Possible. It happens, and virtually every politician (and news reporter) who has spoken on TV enough times has said something on the stupid side.

I'm sick of the automatic knee-jerk bullshit here that makes out any conservative to be an idiot. That's all the two possible reasons given allowed for. That's my point.

CH

[D. Scarlatti]

Well I don't need to speak for Maturin, but it's a pretty damn idiotic thing to assert for anyone of any political stripe, let alone an Undersecretary of State on a diplomatic mission to the Middle East. If you don't mind that sort of national representation abroad on your behalf, that's fine. But I can see some people finding it pretty offensive.

[Cool Hand]

Originally Posted by D. Scarlatti

Well I don't need to speak for Maturin, but it's a pretty damn idiotic thing to assert for anyone of any political stripe, let alone an Undersecretary of State on a diplomatic mission to the Middle East. If you don't mind that sort of national representation abroad on your behalf, that's fine. But I can see some people finding it pretty offensive.

It must be nice to be so privileged and infallible that you never make a mistake or gaff.

CH

[D. Scarlatti]

Originally Posted by Cool Hand

It must be nice to be so privileged and infallible that you never make a mistake or gaff.

I wouldn't know, since I'm none of those things. Neither do I know why your defense of Ms. Hughes is so adamant. As I said, I don't purport to speak for the OP, and since your quarrel seems to be with him for providing only two explanatory options for the Undersecretary of State's laughable characterization of the Constitution, you should probably take it up with him.

However, I think it's fairly safe to say that if the speaker had been a liberal or a Democrat, the criticism would have been every bit as pointed, and every bit as richly deserved.