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MindMover

(5,016 posts) Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:19 PM Mar 2012

What Joseph Smith's Candidacy Can Teach Mitt Romney

It isn’t widely known that in 1844 Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ran against James K. Polk and Henry Clay for president of the U.S. Perhaps this detail has been lost amid the many story lines of Smith’s head-spinningly eventful life. In that year alone, Smith was mayor of a rapidly growing city, a church president, lieutenant general of a large militia, shopkeeper, surveyor, fugitive in two states, landlord, hotel manager, and prophet of the Lord. Not only did he have a whole bunch of wives to attend to, he also had the nearly full-time job of dancing around the fact that he had a whole bunch of wives. And still he found time, in April of that year, to have his Council of Fifty elect him “King and Ruler Over Israel.”

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-15/what-joseph-smiths-candidacy-can-teach-mitt-romney?campaign_id=rss_null

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Better to sound empathic than prophetic..............

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You can find details here grantcart Mar 2012 #1

grantcart

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Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:56 PM

Mar 2012

http://www.latterdayconservative.com/articles/joseph-smith-campaign-for-president-of-the-united-states/

and here

http://www.latterdayconservative.com/joseph-smith/general-smiths-views-of-the-power-and-policy-of-the-government/

I wonder what Romney thinks about Smith's position on penal reform;

Petition your state legislatures to pardon every convict in their several penitentiaries, blessing them as they go, and saying to them, in the name of the Lord, go thy way and sin no more. Advise your legislators when they make laws for larceny, burglary or any felony, to make the penalty applicable to work upon roads, public works, or any place where the culprit can be taught more wisdom and more virtue; and become more enlightened. Rigor and seclusion will never do as much to reform the propensities of man, as reason and friendship. Murder only can claim confinement or death. Let the penitentiaries be turned into seminaries of learning, where intelligence, like the angels of heaven, would banish such fragments of barbarism.

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