U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg trash talks the US Constitution.

Here she is telling some Egyptian interviewer to use every Constitution in the world EXCEPT the US Constitution as a model for theirs. Great example of the kind of people we have in high positions in this country that don't belong there and have no plans to actually honor their oaths.

(As a bonus, you'll probably get to watch a pro Obama commercial before the video starts. Oh joy.)

She should be removed right after Obamao loses.

Well I was lucky I didnt see a obama add. I watched the video and she doesnt trash talk the constitution but speaks highly of it. Her problem with the constitution seems to be how old it is and keeps mentioning over and over that its old. I think she thinks just because its a old document that Egypt should skip its ideas. Very strange! I think maybe she is just getting to old for the job. And man she is boring and half expecting the interviewer to fall asleep.

ssvs04 wrote:

I watched the video and she doesnt trash talk the constitution but speaks highly of it.

I didn't see her speaking highly of it, I saw her saying it was old and that the Egyptians shouldn't look at it as a model for theirs. The whole gist of her statements was that our Constitution is old and therefore is no good and that all these other countries have better constitutions because they are newer.

If anything is to old it's not our Constitution, it's our Supreme Court justices.

eber322 wrote:

ssvs04 wrote:

I watched the video and she doesnt trash talk the constitution but speaks highly of it.

I didn't see her speaking highly of it, I saw her saying it was old and that the Egyptians shouldn't look at it as a model for theirs. The whole gist of her statements was that our Constitution is old and therefore is no good and that all these other countries have better constitutions because they are newer.

If anything is to old it's not our Constitution, it's our Supreme Court justices.

Still today we have one of the oldest surviving governments in the world.

There is also nothing 'old' or outdated in our Constitution. Things that were wrong with it have been corrected with amendments, like giving rights to blacks and women.

eber322 wrote:

There is also nothing 'old' or outdated in our Constitution. Things that were wrong with it have been corrected with amendments, like giving rights to blacks and women.

Agreed!

The lady gave a very mixed and confused interview as I said she speaks highly one part of the video and in another she keeps saying how old it is. Again a confusing interview from this Judge.

eber322 wrote:

There is also nothing 'old' or outdated in our Constitution. Things that were wrong with it have been corrected with amendments, like giving rights to blacks and women.

I did not say the constitution was old. What I said is we have one of the longest lasting governments in history. Over 200 years.

Pissedoffvulcan wrote:

I did not say the constitution was old. What I said is we have one of the longest lasting governments in history. Over 200 years.

I know you didn't, I was agreeing with you and also countering what the judge said about it being 'old', meaning outdated.

I think it's just a difference in usage. You said "oldest" as in longest lasting, a positive thing. She said "old" as in outdated, a negative thing. It was her usage I was addressing, not yours. :)

eber322 wrote:

Pissedoffvulcan wrote:

I did not say the constitution was old. What I said is we have one of the longest lasting governments in history. Over 200 years.

I know you didn't, I was agreeing with you and also countering what the judge said about it being 'old', meaning outdated.

I think it's just a difference in usage. You said "oldest" as in longest lasting, a positive thing. She said "old" as in outdated, a negative thing. It was her usage I was addressing, not yours. :)

if you look through history many governments do not last beyond 20 to 50 years. I don't know the exact number if someone does then I would like to know.