GOP Wins the Contest for Number of God References in their Platform
 

"The Democratic Party’s platform makes no reference to God, drawing criticism from Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan.

Ryan tells Fox News’ ”Fox & Friends” the change is not in keeping with the country’s founding documents and principles and suggests the Obama administration is behind the decision. The Republican platform mentions God 12 times."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...849_story.html

I wouldn't be surprised if the RNC were to next announce a survey of the number of attendees wearing American flag lapel pins at both conventions.:rolleyes:

We win!

:)

Pete

I don't care if it rains or freezes
Long as I've got my plastic Jesus....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHf7TD4qwjk



:p



Carl

Or is it
Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgRVNjsuycQ

:)


Carl

Already resorting to pettiness.

Name dropping will get them nowhere. They have to prove they actually live by those tenets. And most of them are seriously lacking in that regard.

If there is a real christian in that crowd he/she is invisible.

The cave-in/flip-flop is far more embarrassing than the ommission (which would have been rather easy to defend in my opinion).

I guess I'm one of those liberals who "have trouble thinking", mess, because the above reads like pure Palin word salad, completely meaningless.

It has dawned on me why you are so fond of plagiarism. It's the only way you can post anything that's halfway intelligible.

John

"-/////"

Yeah, mess ain't much when it comes to putting together a coherent sentence. As near as I can figure it has something to do with wearing shower shoes during a mining disaster.

John

He's topically challenged to boot.

Oh stop being such a baby. I really didn't have a problem ommitting God from the platform. But putting God back in now after some criticism just looks weak.

You aren't worth the keystrokes. Crickets are the only chorus you deserve.

I do only expect your soreness to increase as the signals continue to align that you are indeed handily (and deservedly) losing this election.

"-\\\"

You got this from Nancy Reagan's astrologer?

John

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What part of this do you not understand Mezz? I'm not really surprised that you came back, you just can't help yourself. You have thoroughly discredited yourself. Let me disabuse you of any notion that I will engage in any conversation with you at all, it will not happen. My only direct reply in the future will be "-///" which means you are not worth the keystrokes. The quotation marks are commentary on your character. In closing, do yourself a big favor and find another forum where they aren't aware of your shortcomings.

You're pretty amusing there boobabode. I'd bet more than I've got riding on Obama losing this election now (and that's a pretty sure bet these days) that you'll not last a day posting your infantile hieroglyphics rather than responding to my posts as I'm quite certain that your fortitude is at least as weak as most other areas of your dismally flawed worldview and stunted intellect as have relvealed themselves here over time.

I'm guessing that your mysterious genius will indeed divulge itself in the form of approximately three days worth of posts/responses conveying how you intend not to respond to me ever again.

Speaking of Nancy, did you see where she wil sonn be portrayed by none other than "Hanoi" Jane Fonda herself?

Dave

Sir...you have a knack of making a person feel like a school bus monitor.
Totally.

Agreed.

Pete

Yeah, I did. I'm sure Fonda is enough of a pro to play the role straight but St. Ronnie's order must be pretty incensed.

John

And, madam, you might want to rethink your signature too. Jefferson never said that.

http://www.monticello.org/site/jeffe...ment-quotation

Have a nice day.

John

I can't wait for the Rushite's reactions. That will send them into a jibbering dance of underwhelming proportions.

M'am, that is a hardly a fair opinion. At least the school bus monitor had the good sense not to post a link to a disgustingly racist video about Muslim immigrants in Britain.

While in the process of flip-flopping, they tried defending the omission as an oversight, but that was obviously a lie.
Here's some truth- about half of that delegation wants God erased from our government. Some, I'm sure, because they are atheist. Some, because they are Muslim and therefore don't buy in to the concept of religious tolerance. And some, because they truly believe it's wrong for our government to promote one faith over another.

Personally, none of those arguments wash for me. I've spent my life pledging allegiance to a flag that represents "one nation under God". Have all these people been reciting that pledge falsely? What do they propose allegiance to? Anything?

Worship whatever you want, or nothing at all, but this country was and is oriented to Biblical values. Obama wants to fundamentally change America. Well, it don't get much more fundamental than our Christian heritage.

Where's your evidence for this "truth"? By the way, I do happen to believe that "it's wrong for our government to promote one faith over another". So did the founders. That's why they put it in the Constitution.

And I'm old enough to have begun reciting the Pledge before Right Wing anti-Communists got "under God" added in. The Pledge of Allegiance was written without "under God" in 1892, officially adopted without "under God" in 1942 out of patriotic fervor in the early months of WWII. "Under God" was added in 1954 during the Cold War as a means of differentiating us from the "Godless communists". It has always been political and never really been religious.

Why, then, does the word God not appear anywhere in the Constitution?

Also, why did they put this in the Treaty of Tripoli in 1797, a treaty which was unanimously ratified by Congress and signed by President John Adams, one of the Nation's founders:

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

Where's your evidence for that?

John

Look what the cat dragged in :D Howdy Waslliaguy.

Pete

Btw Wasilla, hasn't it been bludgeoned into your head enough to KNOW that we were an athiest nation?

Or maybe Muslim ;)

Pete

Heah, I never mentioned how long "under God" had been there, other than to say it's been my whole life.
If it was just to differentiate us from the commies, we probably don't need it any more, huh?
I'm not too worried. If you can't get God out of your convention, fat chance you'll get it removed from the pledge, or the currency, or the federal buildings.

Maybe scrape it off Jeffersons' monument :)

Pete

Howdy Pete! You been holding down the fort? Looks like nothing has changed here. Two good eyes but they still don't see...

Nah, nothings changed, Democrats are still always wrong, and you can still spit on the floor & call the cat a bastard :)

What's your avatar?

Pete

Welcome back to the "classy " forum.:D

Wondering what you limited government advocates would think of some bureaucrat writing official prayers?

Regards,

D-Ray

That's one of my brandywine tomatoes from the greenhouse. A little over 1.5lbs
I got tomatoes and cukes coming out my ears right now. Traded a big bag of them for some moose pepperoni sticks last night.

That's a big tomato to throw at some windbag politician. :D

Just kidding, WG. That's pretty impressive. Makes me want a BLT. Cucumbers, on the other hand are nasty until they have had a long bath in vinegar.

Regards,

D-Ray

Are we talking the kind of prayers where everyone is out in the streets on mats blocking traffic? Is there foot washing involved? Are we praying that non-believers all die?

President Obama will be heartbroken to read this. It was to be the Crowning Achievement of his second term.

Are all you guys really this paranoid or do you just like herring?

John