This is just too hysterical! The Democrats were taking heat for excluding the word “God” from their platform, and deleting the traditional reference to Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. So, what did they do? Why they had a resolution to put those things back in, a motion which required a 2/3 supermajority to pass.
VIDEO: Chaos at DNC as Chair Overrules Delegates to Put God, Jerusalem Back in Platform
Kyle Becker September 5, 2012 5:34 pm
A stunned Democratic National Convention Chair Antonio Villaraigosa held a vote not once, not twice, but three times to insert “God” and define “Jerusalem” as the capital of Israel back into the Democratic Party platform. As was predicted on IJ Review yesterday, the Democrat Party would likely reinsert God back into the platform. Who knew it would come with the DNC Chair clearly violating party rules by passing a measure without a clear 2/3 voice vote?
The embarrassment began yesterday when it was exposed that Democrats removed God and Jerusalem from the party platform, although spokesmen pointed out that it made repeated nebulous references to “faith.” But the voice vote shows that the heart of the party has no qualm with removing these references at all, an unsightly demonstration that Christians and Jews will have to grapple with as they weigh their votes this November.
That is just hysterically funny! Chairman Villaraigosa was going to get that motion passed, come Hell or high water, and he wasn’t going to let anything as silly as an about-even sounding voice vote stop him from declaring that 2/3 of the delegates voted for it.
Somebody, doubtlessly from the Obama re-election campaign, gave him the word: we can’t have the platform not mentioning those things, or we’ll become uncompetitive in Florida, and lose North Carolina and Virginia for sure, so get that damned thing passed!
Who said post-convention bounces are a thing of the past? Why heck, with this travesty of democracy and the loud booing combined with the very bad light of “you belong to the government”, the Republicans could quite easily get a post-convention bounce after this Democrat convention is over.
But you can see where the Democrat base is these days, and it’s definitely not with the vast majority of Americans. Oops.
When even CNN says that the Democrats are lying . . . .
You beat me to it. I was surprised allah, bail, gaia, the golden calf and a rock weren’t included to make it equal. Debbie Blabbermouth Medusa Shultz said B Hussein O wanted the change. No, they were caught and put on a spin and included these items. Maybe it would have been unanimous if along with Jerusalen, Tehran was inserted.
And I saw, but couldn’t stomach after 3 minutes was Sandra, I want to Fluke on the taxpayer’s dime for free. Nausiating.
I do have to wonder why the Democrats put Sandra Fluke on. Everyone knows President Obama’s position on forcing all employers to include contraception coverage in their health care packages. You combine her appearance with the idiocy over including/excluding God from the platform, and all that the Democrats have done is to risk alienating some Catholic voters. Evangelical voters were already alienated, but the Democrats know that they aren’t going to carry the states where evangelical voters have any strength anyway. Finally, you have the deliberate change over the status of Jerusalem, and the Democrats risked alienating some Jewish voters, which can cost them in Florida. Add platform support for same-sex “marriage,” something which has lost at the polls every time it has been presented to the voters, including twice in California, and guarantees for abortion, even if the woman can’t pay for it, and all the Democrites have done is urinate off a few voters.
This has been Amateur Hour at the Democritic National Convention so far, picking fights they don’t need to pick. Even Wagonwheel would agree with that, if he told the truth about it.
If a covert operative for Mitt Romney had somehow sneaked his way into the DNC to write their convention script, could he have done a better job than the Democrites have already done to themselves?
The central point is this: President Obama cares what the Dem platform document says, Mitt Romney does not. This is why President Obama insisted on the inclusion of the reference to “God”, whereas Willard Romney dismissed the fact that his party platform did not properly state his views on the abortion issue. You wingnuts should have been upset at Romney for that. Why weren’t you, Mr Editor?
And by the way, Jerusalem is supposed to be the joint capital of the State of Israel and the Palestinian State, need I remind you?
Concerning the inclusion of Sandra Fluke, I think she is an admirable individual, expresses her views very well, to which I agree. She has been vilified unmercifully by the Right, Rush Limbaugh in particular, which say a lot about their utter nastiness. It is one thing to disagree with her views, but quite another to attack her personally like has been done. Shame on you folks for that!!!
No, I don’t agree at all. What did you think of Michelle Obama’s speech? There have been a large number of excellent speeches, including Gov of MA DeVal Patrick, Mayor of Houston Julian Castro, Sandra Fluke, Sister Simone Campbell, Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel, just to name a few of the many which I have liked.
It seems that the your and your colleagues’ main objective has been to mock the DNC convention and the participants, which is just fine with me, because it demonstrates your shallowness, desperation, and nastiness. We’ll just have to wait and see what the outcome will be on election day, when it really counts.
That’s a great joke, John, coming from a supporter of the virtually all-white male Republican Party. This is exactly why you needed Citizens’ United and voter suppression to give you a chance at this election. In the context of the American spirit, you and your party are freaks!!!
I never, ever, want that to happen. It would spell the demise of Israel and anyone with at least 4 brain cells would know that. Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel and not the Capital of some anti-Semitic group of terrorists, plain and simple. But, please do remind us how you can take Debbie Whatshername Schmuck at her word when absolute proof has been given that she lies blatantly and with regularity, so much so, that even the Leftist CNN had to declare she’s living in some alternate universe.
WW complained:
Mr Romney saw no reason to start a fight; why should he? As for President Obama caring what the platform says, he only cares whether or not it wins or costs him votes.
Really? What Palestinian state? There is no Palestinian state, and it doesn’t look as though there will be a Palestinian state for years and years, if ever. What passes for a Palestinian Authority
is headquartered in Ramallah, but might as well be headquartered from a jail cell or a porta-potty.
And how many votes do you think that will get you? The people inclined to support her position were already going to vote for President Obama, but her speech reminded, once again, Catholic voters that the Obama Administration has been leading an attack on religious liberty. Catholics normally give a majority of their votes to Democrats, and that’s important in Pennsylvania; y’all just ran off a few of those Catholic voters.
If Mitt Romney had managed to sneak in a covert agent to write the DNC script, he couldn’t have done a better job than what y’all have already done to yourselves.
WW wrote:
Well, if the GOP is a “virtually all-white male” party, then we’d be almost extinct, wouldn’t we? White males make up a fairly small segment of the electorate, and if that’s all the GOP was, we’d never win a single election. Yet somehow, some way, we have a majority in the House of Representatives, significantly closed the gap in the Senate, have a majority of gubernatorial seats and are about even in state legislative chambers controlled. I wonder how that happened?
I note, of course, that WW is trying to change the subject. The subject was the undemocratic pushing through of the changes demanded by the President’s re-election staff, in complete violation of party rules.
When your party starts following the rules and honoring democratic procedures, Mr Editor, then feel free to lecture me.
When have we stopped, WW? Our candidates were selected by the votes of the people, our rules were put in place, and followed, by the votes of the delegates.
Oh, that’s right, you are combitching about filibusters, aren’t you? Well, those are following the rules, just what you said we should do.
Or, perhaps you are complaining about requiring photo IDs to vote; we’re the ones who want to insure that every vote is a legal one, while you are the one who wants to retain the ability for Democrats to commit fraud.
Which is roughly the mandate which the Dems earned in the 2008 elections, which your party refused to honor with your massive obfuscation tactics in Congress.
The Republican successes you mentioned resulted from your admittedly successful propaganda tactics in which you blamed President Obama for not having fixed your dire mess quickly enough.
Add to your continued propaganda and multiple lies the impact of Citizens’ United and voter suppression, maybe that will be enough for your party to prevail again. But I don’t think so!
What Republicans oppose, but what we need in this country for us to survive and be strong, is shared prosperity, for which Elizabeth Warren made a compelling point in her speech last evening:
Her remarks were complementary to those of Bill Clinton last night, who “told a story of Democratic policy ideas building a foundation for growth, and creating opportunity, and bringing back shared prosperity. He added an important moral component that “poverty, discrimination and ignorance restrict growth.”
The action plan for our future then derives from these principles, in contrast to the Republican mantra of trickle down from the top.
We have tried both, the aforementioned principles giving our nation success in the Clinton second term, and the latter trickle down producing for our nation a disaster during the Bush-43 terms.
These are historical facts, which Republicans have yet to absorb with effective responses and changes. However, the Dems fully understand.
Why was Bush-43 not present in Tampa?
No, Mr Editor, not following the rules, but exploiting the rules, much more than any party in history since the filibuster rule was generated.
Sure Mr Editor, a solution to a non-existent problem, put in place to nullify minority and poor voters who usually vote Dem. Who are you trying to fool? The very fact that you would choose to support and defend this Republican tactic speaks poorly of your own character. Have you thought about that?
For you, it appears that it is not what is true or right, instead it is whatever action will advance the power of your political party and fellow ideologues. This is the well known Machiavellian approach to politics, of which you have become a master, though not a very flattering moniker to have acquired by virtue of your behavior on this your blog.
Your fake Indian candidate said:
She’s absolutely right: the system is rigged against the hard-working people. It’s rigged by generations of welfare malingerers sucking up the public treasury so that they can live without working, it’s rigged by having nearly one person in seven getting food stamps, pulling money out of the taxpayers’ pockets, it’s rigged by a system which punishes working harder through paying higher taxes and rewards indolence with all sorts of benefits . . . and Fauxahontas supports that system!
Fauxahontas rails against those evil ol’ corporations . . . but five out of every six Americans who have jobs work for private enterprises. She wants to punish the people who provide the jobs for hard-working Americans; you can’t get much stupider than that!
From DRUDGE:
TV Ratings Wednesday: NFL Season Opener Down But Still Dominates Night, ‘Big Brother’ & ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Fall, Plus DNC Coverage
So who watched Bubba?
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/09/06/tv-ratings-wednesday-nfl-season-opener-down-but-still-dominates-night-big-brother-so-you-think-you-can-dance-fall-plus-dnc-coverage/147493/
It is a sign of our times in America, and not a good one, that a football game or some other TV show will keep us from watching important events at the very center of our lives as Americans, Dems and Repubs alike.
Football and Baseball are more important right now. And anyway, we’ve heard Bubba for 20 years. We haven’t seen the Orioles in 1st place for 15 years. Priorities.
Rather than wallow in self-indulgence and mindless idolatry last night I opted for the more important, reality-based entertainment choice, the Cowboy/Giants opener, but during commercial time outs I do acknowledge indulging in channel switching to catch a few snippets of Slick Willie’s performance. It was the same old song-n-dance act, Slick with his well practiced serious and forthright look, smiling and talking like door to door salesman, wagging his left index finger and hawking snake oil. Some thing never change.
But, it was ol’ Slick himself alright, a little older, more gray, less contrite and not quite as shifty-eyed than back when he was caught like a rat in a trap, a rat that is with his pants down, and lying like a dog on national TV about that woman, Ms Lewinsky.
Yep, it was just like old times. Same guy selling the same lies and the same damn fools lapping it up. I couldn’t help thinking that even though yesterday was gone there’re still lots of true believing Jackasses who would willingly sell Uncle Sam down the river if only they could relive the thrill of Old Bill’s days in the Oval Office complete with the questions about Vince Foster’s murder, Travelgate, Watergate, Filegate, Zippergate, Monica’s blue dress, Bill’s assault on Paula Jones, the rape of Juanita Broderick, etc., etc., etc.
I watched the football game and cheered for Dallas. Much more important than that old rapist, Bill Clinton or the fake Indian and her class warfare spiel. And then there was Sandra Fluck, who probably wanted to fluck every male in the room, including the rapist Bill Clinton. If you really wanted to make Miss Fluck happy, drop free rubbers from the ceiling on her instead of balloons
It’s too bad the audience didn’t do the Tomahawk Chop during her speech.
What a stupid idea. That would work about as well as a divided Berlin during the Cold War. But what a farce to have the convention leader rig the election on the wording of their platform. What a ship of fools!
Of course, as expected, ropelight and Eric attack the messenger instead of listening to the message and critiquing it with some degree of honesty. However, I’m sure there will be more like the two named commenters on this blog.
Too bad you two missed Bill Clinton’s speech, because you would not have liked it, but you would have learned a thing or two from it. You would have learned more about the Obama record than President Obama himself advertises, but should, because put in perspective, which is what Bill Clinton did, it has been a good one for our country. Moreover, you would have learned in detail the Romney/Ryan lies, of which you folks are well aware, because you all repeat them time and again, mostly in ignorance.
But that is the way ideologues are; they don’t wish to be swayed from their message, indicating no trust in themselves to make independent judgments.
Under normal circumstances, Bill Clinton’s facts and figures would seal the deal for President Obama in a second term.
But these are far from normal circumstances. Now the anonymous Super PACs will begin their screaming, yelling, and lying, thanks to the Citizens United ruling permitting unlimited spending by anonymous donors.
Moreover, we have unprecedented voter suppression taking place in the red states, allegedly solving a problem, a problem which does not exist.
Therefore, it is difficult to predict an outcome in an election which on principle should see a second term for our President. However, I remain optimistic, boosted by the Clinton speech last evening, and by the lies I heard spoken night after night the week before.
Now I look forward to President Obama’s speech tonight. All concerned Americans should be watching tonight, whether for or against his reelection.
PS: Mr Editor, I’m curious whether you watched the Clinton speech, and what your thoughts are, because of all the regulars, my hope is that you would at least give it a more honest assessment than I’ve read so far on here.
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There’s a reason Clinton earned the nickname Slick Willie, because he is basically Sir Lie-A-Lot. In addition to being a liar, he is also a rapist. How well does that sit in a Party who claims there’s a “War on Women”.
Obama has his SuperPACs, too, including one that got a million dollars from Bill Maher, who called Sarah Palin a cunt. How’s that for class? How’s that for a War on Women?
Obama started things on a sour note by saying “I won”. He attacked the Supreme Court to their faces during a SOTU speech. He insulted Paul Ryan in a similar fashion. Obama is an egomaniac who doesn’t play well with others. There’s a new book by Bob Woodward that details just what a dick Obama really is. That, no doubt comes from being raised a foreigner with a drunken Marxist bigamist for a
sperm donorDaddy.Bill Clinton, or Nancy Pelosi, or John Kerry, or Barack Obama could talk from now till the second coming and it wouldn’t make a bit of difference to me, not one bit.
If you don’t agree, watch what they do and compare that to what they said they intended. You’ll soon come to the inescapable conclusion: What they do is frequently the opposite of what they say, sometimes it’s even the exact opposite.
In other words, they can’t be trusted to tell the truth, and the last few days provided several contemporary examples, laughable examples.