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I can’t go, because I have a date to read the phonebook. Meanwhile …
Palin: 'I Don't Know' If Abortion Clinic Bombers Are Terrorists, from the Daily Kos, as relayed by www.alternet.org.
The buffoonish nature of Sarah Palin's vice presidential candidacy has mostly been a disaster for the McCain-Palin campaign, but it is has delivered at least one benefit: her foibles have helped obscure the true nature of her right-wing extremism.
But now, Sarah Palin's self-destructive behavior is threatening to expose even that. In an interview broadcast yesterday on NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams asked Palin whether she felt abortion clinic bombers were terrorists.
Amazingly, she said that she didn't know. MSNBC reports (emphasis added):
Palin resisted the suggestion that if Ayers was a "domestic terrorist" -- a standard line in her campaign addresses -- then so were conservative religious activists who bombed abortion clinics.
"I don't know if you're going to use the word 'terrorist' there," she said.
And herein lies the historic "meat & potatoes" of the hipocracy of religious zealotry from the advent of the Papacy to the modern day Evangelicals.
ReplyDeleteFor any who have been sprinkled, dunked, baptized, had hands layed upon, horsewhipped, or otherwise coerced & accepted into the flock, the edict is "We shall not kill (each other)!!!"
However, for those heathen who remain outside the fold (or worse yet, those who dare to defect) it is open season at will.
As a matter of fact, in some sects, it is ones sacred duty to purge the gene pool lest the church be contaminated either from wihin or without.
Nicely summarized Lloyd for a Sunday morning here in the Biblebelt...could be the start of a good sermon, dare I say?
ReplyDeleteWhat better day than Sunday?
ReplyDeletesame old thing from this sprinkled, saved, layed upon, batshit crazy person (whatever your non positive adjective of choice may be, *Ahem* Palin does not represent all Christians, the same way she doesn't represent all republicans or all women.
ReplyDeleteBack to your regularly scheduled generalizations.
(if you don't believe me I'll extend the offer again to join me one Sunday at Central, and I'm sure Mr. Manzo would be delighted to see you sitting in his congregation as well.)
If I may before I'm once more publicly beaten and burned at the stake, let me say this.
ReplyDeleteOn their prescribed day of worship sitting in pews of every faith on the planet there are some very fine folks who honestly believe they are doing "God's will" with malice towards none.
Likewise many of those congregations are led by pastors who lead by "Christs" example.
None of that can undo nor justify the behind the scenes damage done by the church hierarchy in zealously promoting the politic of the day in return for favors past or future.
The saddest part is that most of the congregations neither know nor dare to question such when they are aware.
Are we ignoring here what she actually said and substituting it with fragments of quotes?
ReplyDeleteI think she said it best when she said "I would put in that category with Bill Ayers anyone who would seek to campaign to destroy our United States capital and our Pentagon and would seek to destroy innocent Americans."
Bill Ayers is an unrepentent terrorist, so she puts in the terrorist category ANYONE who would seek...to destroy innocent Americans."
I would say that includes abortion clinic bombers.
You would say.
ReplyDeleteShe didn't.
Actually, if you consider abortion clinic bombers to be people who seek to destroy innocent Americans then yes, she said exactly that.
ReplyDeleteIf you're upset that she didn't explicitly say it, has Mr. Obama explicitly said that they were domestic terrorists? She tried to provide a definition of domestic terrorists that covered all possible examples, and I think she did decently.
I bet she and McCain don't refuse to do any more interviews with the station because of a few tough questions.
Since they only have a week left anyway, they might as well get out and do all the interviews they can. Then Barbie can go back to Alaska and ask people to pray for pipeline funding and claim that the Iraq War was a calling from God. She can try and get more books banned from the library. She can just get back to her good old life.
ReplyDeleteMcOld can sit around and wonder what ever possessed him to pick her as a VP candidate.
Interesting news is that Real Clear Politics has moved Indiana into a "Leans Democrat" state for the presidential race. While I tend to think that our precious state will still go red, just the fact that the McFailin campaign has to spend time and money in our state tells me alot about how people feel about the conservatives overall.