Opinion: The U.S. Constitution is too old, Ginsburg says

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took an oath of office to defend our Constitution. Yet she told an audience in Egypt, “I would not look to the U.S. Constitution. Egypt needs a document like South Africa’s constitution.” This is who we have as a Supreme Court judge. Here is what President Obama said in an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer several Sundays ago: “Our founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about changes that I would like to do sometimes. If it wasn’t for that old document, we’d be a lot further along with our radical agenda of fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Before Mr. Obama became president he criticized that document as being a charter of negative liberties. God has given us the greatest country on this Earth. We have men and women who are in high offices who want to make us a second- or third-rate country. And it looks like we are sure headed that way. ROY SHOUN Diamond Springs