RE: Why Does Atheism and Left-Wing Politics Usually Go Together?
September 26, 2012 at 11:59 am
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2012 at 12:06 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(September 26, 2012 at 12:17 am)Blackrook Wrote:(September 26, 2012 at 12:07 am)Annik Wrote: LOL! Did Bill O'Reily tell you that?
No, I saw it myself.
The Democratic party platform did not mention God even one time.
The Democratic leaders realized this was a P.R. disaster, so they made a motion on the floor to add God to the platform.
The motion was rejected by voice vote three times because so many Democrats in the audience yelled "no" to God.
So finally, the chairman declared that the motion was passed any way, and after that Democrats were booing.
Um, I'm not a Democrat, and it's still crystal clear to me that a vote to not include appeals to God's authority into a political platform is not the same thing as a vote 'no' to God. Conflating the two is just sloppy thinking.
(September 26, 2012 at 12:30 am)Blackrook Wrote: Well, if you vote Democratic this year you are voting for another four years of high unemployment, business failures, mortgage foreclosures, and out of control spending.
So let's hire back the Party that had the presidency when the economy nearly collapsed in the first place? I don't plan to vote for the incumbent, but it takes nerve to say 'hire us back because the guy whose cleaning up our mess isn't doing it as well as we would'.
