The amazing longevity of the Founding Fathers
July 9th, 2008 at 08:34pm Pat Cunningham
Several of the framers of the U.S. Constitution lived to be pretty old, but none as old as Jonah Goldberg suggests.
The other day, I told you HERE about a ridiculous column in which Goldberg, a conservative writer, posited that Barack Obama’s plan to require community service of college kids receiving federal student loans is perhaps a violation of the constitutional amendment banning slavery.
Well, now Goldberg is waxing even ridiculouser (to coin a word). In THIS LITTLE NOTE of self-congratulations, he employs the misassumption that the anti-slavery amendment, which was adopted in 1865, was written by “the founders.”
On paper, young Jonah is better educated than I. In reality, not so much.
Entry Filed under: slavery, Jonah Goldberg, Founding Fathers, Barack Obama
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