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Related: About this forumMartin Bashir: Can't hit 270, Romney hits Obama on religion.
I really liked two quotes by Krystal Ball & Karen Finney. My husband & I have had a few conversations with the same ideas; I'm sure most DUers have had similar conversations, too, so thought I'd share:
Karen Finney: There aren't enough white anglos in this country to elect a president. I'm sorry, fellas, but it's the truth. And the Barack Obama electorate is blacker & browner, & it's women, & it's far more diverse like the country actually is.
Good conversation:
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/49677719#49677719
Cha
(297,321 posts)like these.
Mitt made his own trap and now according to mittLies: "PRESIDENT OBAMA IS A THREAT TO CHISTIANITY" AND TO LIFE ITSELF AS WE KNOW IT ON PLANET EARTH.. so sayeth the LIAR FROM HELL.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)Their interpretations of the Bible are based on their innermost failings (greed, selfishness, hatred) & they've given the word "Christianity" a very negative reputation.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)I'd refuse even if my balls were in a vise. (well, unless someone were tightening the vise, but ....)
The MittWit wold be a disaster only Al Q'aeda would cheer.
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)THEIR right-wingers are apparently from the same gene pool as OUR right wingers! Theocrats. Misogynists. Greed-obsessed. Xenophobes. Militarists.
I have enormous empathy for Pakistani immigrants to the U.S. Those I've known have been awesome and grateful for living here like shipwreck victims are thankful for a garden isle.
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)I was thinking of the al queda sympathizers in that country and the possibility that they would prefer someone less effective and aggressive in that region.
Romney likely doesn't even know quite where Pakistan is, and would be more easily molded and/or fooled.
lib87
(535 posts)Romney and his GOP party have gone out of their way and alienated most everyone else:
Women- Check
Minorities- Check
Gays- Check
Poor- Check
Unions- Check
The 47%(lol)- Super check
They're counting on a base of uneducated blue collar White male voters to vote him in and it won't work even with constant lies and flat out racism.
TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)I am.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)"We've got to get out! My daughter is frostbitten," begs mom, asking to leave Romney rally. Staffer replies: "It's not cold enuf for that."
http://americablog.com/2012/11/romney-staff-refusing-to-let-frostbitten-children-leave-pa-rally.html
vlyons
(10,252 posts)The established Christian church has very little to do with the teachings of Jesus. You know: feed the poor, heal the sick, be a peacemaker, love thy neighbor. You don't have to believe in virgin birth, resurrection after death, heaven & hell, a creator god -- all of which are ridiculous -- to practice the teachings of Jesus. Christianity is a horrible religion. They think that if you're not one of them, you're a heretic or an infidel and therefore a mortal enemy. And many many of them do not practice even the very basics of what Jesus taught.
glowing
(12,233 posts)Even my little VT church became extreme over politics when Clinton was running. From their the hate has grown and festered more and more (and I'm sure it was there before with other churches) but for VT, it was too much.
For me, I would rather sit peacefully by an ocean or in the middle of a field and meditate. The best thing in my church was the music and the passion and joy that you could feel when multiple bodies were putting out good positive energy... I've felt the same spirit of that energy at a Hindus prayer...
And I don't think, knowing men wrote the bible, that they didn't incorporate a few of their own thoughts into words.. And it's been interpreted by many people a 100 ways to Sunday... And then there are all the marvels sitting in the Catholic Church archives that are kept from the public.
Anyway, it's not that hard to try and take care of one another and have compassion... None of that seems like what we r doing here. And the monsters have infiltrated good people and led them astray.. They don't even see it.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)We're not supposed to judge or hate.