I disagree when Obama says that the the Constitution is the fundamental flaw with our country
He didn't actually say that. He said that the Constitution "reflected the fundamental flaw of our country that continues to this day", and that's fairly accurate. I mean, blacks weren't even considered human beings when the Constitution was drafted. Later, it was written in the Constitution itself that blacks counted as 3/5 of a person (for determining how many seats a state got in Congress). That IS a fundamental flaw, and racism DOES continue to this day. When a reprehensible piece of shit like Greg Howard can tell a joke that he got forwarded from the A. Wyatt Mann newsletter in front of black students, and not even lose his job for it, I would have to agree with Obama (despite my dislike for his record on FISA and the 2nd Amendment) that our country DOES still have that flaw.
Also, I must admit that I couldn't find proof today that Orson Scott Card is, in my own words, "a repulsive lunatic", my public library no longer has a copy of Maps in a Mirror. Can any of my fellow fans of Card's novels post his introduction to the
short story "Lost Boys" out of Maps in a Mirror? If you've read it (and my memory isn't completely incorrect), you no doubt know precisely what I'm talking about.
Does anybody defending Card seriously doubt he's a homophobe? I haven't managed to prove that he's a lunatic yet, but I thought we might all be able to agree on the "homophobe" part. I mean, even if you're a self-proclaimed homophobe and see nothing wrong with that, can't you agree that Card is one too?
Okay, even if I don't agree that "the media" (as if they're some huge monolithic group with one collective viewpoint, and don't include every jackass with a webcam and a YouTube account) is giving the Democrats a free pass on their share of responsibility for the current economic mess,
Lumin, you seem to be giving Card a free pass on "hating America". You've personally tried and convicted Obama on hating America because, well, I guess because of his failure to repudiate Wright's "God DAMN America" speech enough times. But, as Mainiac already said, Orson Scott Card (not some guy whose church he attended) basically said that he'd support war with his own country because we don't do enough to persecute the homos. This puts him in the ranks with such luminaries as Fred Phelps or Timothy McVeigh.
I've only read the Constitution a couple of times (not thousands of times like Obama, who taught a class on Constitutional Law at freakin' Harvard), but I don't remember EVER seeing the phrase "unless you're queer".
It looks to me like Card, not Obama, is the guy who hates the Constitution and America. And this is a gun-owning conservative redneck with only a high-school education saying this, not some arugula-eating latte-sipping ivory-tower liberal elitist.