San Francisco’s finest: the gift that keeps on giving
In a speech last week, Nancy Pelosi spoke of the Founding Fathers’ admonition in the Constitution regarding self-evident truths. There was only one problem: Their words were in the Declaration of Independence.
Yes, as reported by The Weekly Standard, during a speech at the Center for American Progress (CAP), Ms.Pelosi became a bit confused:
“And so, it was 165 years ago, 165 years ago. Imagine the courage it took for those women to go to Seneca Falls and do what they did there, to even leave home without their husbands’ permission, or fathers’, or whoever it was.To go to Seneca Falls, and to paraphrase what our founders said in the Constitution of the United States: they said the truths that are self-evident, that every man and woman, that men and women were created equal and that we must go forward in recognition of that.”
Oops. It is, of course, the Declaration of Independence and not the Constitution that contains the reference to self-evident truths:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Hey, we all make mistakes. Some of us just make a few more of them than others. Maybe if Pelosi had read the Constitution, she could have “seen what was in it.”
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