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Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell of Delaware on Tuesday questioned whether the U.S. Constitution calls for a separation of church and state, appearing to disagree or not know that the First Amendment bars the government from establishing religion.

The exchange came in a debate before an audience of legal scholars and law students at Widener University Law School, as O’Donnell criticized Democratic nominee Chris Coons’ position that teaching creationism in public school would violate the First Amendment by promoting religious
doctrine.

Coons said private and parochial schools are free to teach creationism but that ‘religious doctrine doesn’t belong in our public schools.’

‘Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?’ O’Donnell asked him.

When Coons responded that the First Amendment bars Congress from making laws respecting the establishment of religion, O’Donnell asked: ‘You’re telling me that’s in the First Amendment?’”

Look at the way the AP bends over backwards for her: “appearing to disagree or not know that the First Amendment bars the government from establishing religion.” She didn’t appear. She just simply didn’t know. They don’t know. They don’t understand. They are ignorant and stupid and the media needs to stop carrying water for them, once and for all.

Lord.

Of course, she doesn’t list all the schools she fraudulently claimed to have gone to…

In a disappointing year, Delaware isn’t disappointing.

A University of Delaware poll released Wednesday showed O’Donnell trailing Democrat Chris Coons by 19 points. And a Fairleigh-Dickinson University poll showed Coons up 53 percent to 36 percent.

For all the national buzz that the Palinesque perennial candidate has received, her supporters in her home state are comparatively lukewarm about her bid, according to the Delaware poll. Only one third of O’Donnell supporters said that they would be ‘very disappointed’ if she lost the race, compared to two-thirds of Coons supporters who said the same about the Democratic candidate.

Christine O’Donnell just sent the following e-mail out via Redstate.com (whose founder described her campaign as “amateur hour”, but I guess if the checks clear…):

We all knew that my opponent couldn’ t hide behind the failed policies of Obama, Pelosi and Reid forever. Even the liberal media led by Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann can’t cover up the truth.

I’ ve been an hard-working citizen, who is only running so we can finally get the real change we need in Washington. My opponent has been a politician for years and is running away from his record. Since he has been in a leadership position on the New Castle County Council, spending has risen 33%.

Marc Rubio, Scott Brown, and now Christine O’Donnell have all based fundraising appeals around MSNBC hosts – but we’re supposed to believe that MSNBC’s progressives haven’t had any impact. Imagine.

The e-mail:

Calling this joke a joke does a disservice to the concept of a joke.

Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell of Delaware said in a 2006 debate that China was plotting to take over America and claimed to have classified information about the country that she couldn’t divulge.

O’Donnell’s comments came as she and two other Republican candidates debated U.S. policy on China during Delaware’s 2006 Senate primary, which O’Donnell ultimately lost.

She said China had a ‘carefully thought out and strategic plan to take over America’ and accused one opponent of appeasement for suggesting that the two countries were economically dependent and should find a way to be allies.

I seriously wonder if Christine O’Donnell is just stupid or if it’s something more serious.

This absolute grifter just keeps getting busted on this stuff. It’s almost as if she’s a complete and utter fraud.

Oh, right, she is. Just like the Tea Party and the GOP.

The thing I can’t get over is just how blatant O’Donnell’s lying is.

In another move that will raise further questions about Christine O’Donnell’s embellishment of her education record, she claims she studied at the University of Oxford — but a look at her actual record shows this is at best an exaggeration and at worst an outright falsehood.

O’Donnell’s LinkedIn bio page lists ‘University of Oxford’ as one of the schools she attended, claiming she studied ‘Post Modernism in the New Millennium.’ But it turns out that was just a course conducted by an institution known as the Phoenix Institute, which merely rented space at Oxford.

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Kristin Murray, who left her position in the state party to serve as one of several campaign managers for O’Donnell during that race, said warning bells went off in June 2008 when the two were discussing cell phone plans.

‘She told me that she thought Joe Biden tapped her phone line,’ she said.

Alan Moore, who worked on press releases and policy statements for two months during the 2008 bid and now helps run the conservative site Townhall.com, said his conversations with the candidate led him to believe ‘her priorities were completely out of whack.’

Moore, who first decided to volunteer for O’Donnell after hearing about her at a meeting of college Republicans, said that at one point, O’Donnell talked to him about winning a lucrative television contract with CNN or Fox News Channel.

‘I informed her that most media organizations prohibit their employees from running for office. She didn’t seem to understand and was more interested in getting a contract,’ he recalled. ‘She was more concerned about getting a TV deal than winning office.’

As the campaign entered the summer season, staff was instructed to compile a 10-page document examining how the distribution of tens of thousands of two-ounce suntan lotion packets could shake up the race, according to several members of O’Donnell’s 2008 team.

O’Donnell’s idea: To affix a clever slogan to packets that read: ‘Don’t Get Burned By Higher Taxes. Vote Christine O’Donnell 2008′ and distribute them at local parades.

‘She wanted 100,000 of them,’ said Moore, who describes himself as ‘a strong conservative.’