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To: knighthawk
Keeping the press and political campaigns apart is what the Founders had in mind when they granted us special First Amendment privileges. Thomas Jefferson & Co. hoped the press would keep an eye on those seeking power - not try to help them obtain it.

Bill O'Reilly constitutional scholar. It just proves my father's point that you can educate anyone but you can't make them learn anything.

3 posted on 09/13/2004 10:06:12 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
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To: Straight Vermonter

yes, I just thanked the Founders this morning for granting me First Amendment privileges...


7 posted on 09/13/2004 10:14:22 AM PDT by motzman (to the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time.....)
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