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Posted at 1:33pm on Apr. 17, 2008 The Thrilla in Phila
Some Awards From Last Night's Debate
By Dan McLaughlin
Obama's ham-handed defense of his San Francisco remarks last night - in which he flagrantly violated the First Rule of Holes - was just one of the nuggets from last night's Democratic slugfest in Philadelphia worth revisiting. Let's go to the transcript to hand out a few awards.
Most Glaring Historical Ignorance
Gibson gets the award for this question:
Just to quote from the Constitution again, "In every case" -- Article II, Section 1 -- "after the choice of the president, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the vice president."
If it was good enough in colonial times, why not in these times?
Yes, Charlie Gibson managed to pick the very first provision of the Constitution to get scrapped because it proved in practice to be a disaster, and what's more, a disaster in some ways reminiscent of what the Democrats face today. This provision was bad enough when it saddled President John Adams with a Vice President, Thomas Jefferson, who was a vocal critic and leader of the opposition, but then it gave us the fiasco of the 1800 election, including the 18th century version of "Operation Chaos":
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