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Do Democrats Dislike God, Jerusalem…or Both?

by on Sep. 06, 2012, under Uncategorized

The second trimester of Abortionpalooza—-otherwise known as Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention—turned out to be a wonderful day. For Republicans.

Democratic Party convention delegates were given a chance to openly affirm their support for God, and also affirm their support for Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

(Actually, they were given a SECOND chance. Both of those affirmations were noticeably absent from their party platform. After the Koch Brothers, Halliburton and Satan telepathically compelled Republicans and the media to make way, way too much of these insignificant omissions from the Democratic Party’s platform, Democrats felt it wise to correct the problem).

What did the Democratic Convention do with its second chance? Well, let’s check out “The Hill” magazine’s coverage of what happened, along with a video clip from CNN

After three votes, Dems put Jerusalem, God back in their party platform

Wait…it took them THREE votes to do that? Yes, yes it did.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Democrats on Wednesday reinstated language in their party platform recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but only after an unclear vote in which as many delegates appeared to oppose the change as support it.

The party also added the word “God” back into the party’s decree, following criticism that it did not include the word at all.

To reinstate the language, former Ohio governor Ted Strickland proposed two amendments to the platform. The amendments were shown to the convention delegates; you can see them in the CNN video clip embedded in The Hill article, at about the 0.06 mark.

What did the Democratic Party do with its Mulligan, with the MSM’s cameras and audio recorders rolling?

The additions were approved by a voice vote that seemed to split the crowd evenly and confused Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villarigosa, who was leading the proceedings.

Villarigosa looked around the stage and appeared uncertain over how to proceed after an initial vote, in which the “nays” to adding Jerusalem and God back into the platform sounded just as loud as the “ayes.”

Villarigosa called for a second vote with similar results. He then called for a third voice vote, and while it sounded evenly split, he proclaimed that two-thirds of the delegates approved the changes, which sparked some grumbling in the audience.

(Emphasis added, with glee.)

The amendments need a two-thirds vote to pass. Go back and listen to the tape—does that sound like two-thirds to you? Maybe it’s the acoustics in North Carolina…

As a supporter of Israel, I shudder at the image that scene sends—especially to Israel’s enemies. It sends a message that one of America’s two key political parties is clearly conflicted over, and apparently ambivalent to, Israel. At a time when Egypt and Turkey are growing less friendly to Israel, and Syria is disintegrating, that’s not a good message to send. Yet, the Democrats sent that message. To be sure, I’m sure the party leadership didn’t mean to send that message. But, by creating the situation where yesterday’s convention floor clusterfark could take place, for the whole world to see, that’s exactly what they did. (Didn’t the Democrats promise us “smart diplomacy” in the 2008 elections?)

But, I could be wrong. Perhaps the convention was OK with Jerusalem’s status as Israel’s capital, but conflicted by the party’s official affirmation of God.

Who knows? But, if you listen to the video clip—and not Debbie Wasserman Schulz—they were obviously upset about one of those two things.

Either way, it’s the Democrats’ problem to sort out. I’m sure they’ll have a credible explanation (“Uh, uh…Halliburton! Bush! Koch Koch Koch!“) that clears everything up.

Pass the popcorn! This should be fun to watch.

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  • BajaDemocrats

    When you got nothin’ I guess you gotta go with what you got. . .
    The Republican Party National Platform calls for a constitutional amendment to overturn Roe v. Wade and make abortion completely illegal – no exceptions for anything, not even if the life of the mother is endangered or the pregnancy is the result of rape, “legitimate” or otherwise. When asked if that reflects his position, Mitt Romney said to the effect “Oh gosh golly gee, that’s just the party’s platform – I have my own platform. And now they’re trying to make something out of a couple words in the Dem platform????
    When you got nothin’ I guess you gotta go with what you got. . .

    • Jonathan_Duhamel

      And the Democrats are going with an “empty chair.”
      Perhaps Obama will run on his record which according to Investor’s Business Daily is this:
      • Median incomes: These have fallen 7.3% since Obama took office, which translates into an average of $4,000. Since the so-called recovery started, median incomes continued to fall, dropping $2,544, or 4.8%.
      • Long-term unemployed: More than three years into Obama’s recovery, 811,000 more still fall into this category than when the recession ended.
      • Poverty: The poverty rate climbed to 15.1% in 2010, up from 14.3% in 2009, and economists think it may have hit 15.7% last year, highest since the 1960s.
      • Food stamps: There are 11.8 million more people on food stamps since Obama’s recovery started.
      • Disability: More than 1 million workers have been added to Social Security’s disability program in the last three years.
      • Gas prices: A gallon of gas cost $1.89 when Obama was sworn in. By June 2009, the price was $2.70. Today, it’s $3.84.
      • Misery Index: When Obama took office, the combination of unemployment and inflation stood at 7.83. Today it’s 9.71.
      • Union membership: Even unions are worse off under Obama, with membership dropping half a million between 2009 and 2011.
      • Debt: Everyone is far worse off if you just look at the national debt. It has climbed more than $5 trillion under Obama, crossing $16 trillion for the first time on Tuesday and driving the U.S. credit rating down.

      • BajaDemocrats

        I see your economic statistics are about as reliable as your ones about global warming. The US credit rating was not downgraded over the amount of debt, S&P specifically stated the downgrade was in response to the Republicans in Congress steadfastly refusing any means of increasing revenue to reduce the deficit, and because of their lack of concern over allowing the US to default on it’s debt. As for the rest of your stuff – yeah, Dubya screwerd things up really good.

        • fortbuckley

          When you say “increasing revenue,” you mean raising taxes. In a recession? How about we cut spending?

          • BajaDemocrats

            Cut spending? In a fragile economic recovery?? The CBO and many economist are already warning that the spending cuts demanded by Republicans to raise the debt limit and not throw us into default that go into effect next year will throw us back into recession. The time to cut spending is when the economy is firing on all cylinders, like it was for most of the Bush administration but he still added $5 Trillion to the national debt. Where we the Republicans calls to “cut spending!” then?????

            And you can call it “raising taxes” if you want. We call it letting the Bush tax cuts expire for those making over $250k per year. Their tax rate would then revert back to what it was during the Clinton administration, when the economy was doing much better than it was under Bush Lite.

            • fortbuckley

              How about we revert to the federal SPENDING levels we had under the Clinton administration?

              If you’d like to meet me for dinner at Windows On The World (look it up), I can explain some of the reasons for high levels of federal spending in George W. Bush’s administration. If you’ll come out of your progressive bubble, you’ll realize that many Republicans and conservatives turned their back on GOP politicians in 2006 and 2008, because they’d started spending like Democrats. Our new leadership is much more fiscally disciplined; this presents a clear contrast with the drunken sailors that shape Democratic Party fiscal thinking nowadays.

              You’re willing to cut federal spending when the economy “is firing on all cylinders.” Pardon me for fearing that we’ll never, ever reach the point where progressives are willing to cut spending on ANYTHING. (Except defense and anti-voting-fraud efforts, that is.)

        • fortbuckley

          If you have “George W. Bush” on your Democrat Bingo cards, see Baja’s last comment above. You may now cross that square off your cards.

          • BajaDemocrats

            The Republican’s main argument these days seems to be yes, we screwed things up, but Obama hasn’t cleaned up our mess fast enough.

    • fortbuckley

      Baja, if that’s your reply, I guess you got nothin’. FYI, Anderson Cooper says that the head of the DNC is living in an “alternate universe.”

      Actually, we’re trying to make something out of the obvious discomfort that the Democratic National Convention had with affirming, publicly, its support for God and/or Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

      Watch the video. Listen and see for yourself.

      More popcorn! (Munch munch).

  • fortbuckley

    “There is no such thing as show prep when the Democrats are in convention. I just arrive at the studio, turn on the CSPAN feed, watch the Democrats disrobe in front of America and let the callers react.” Hugh Hewitt, KVOI’s finest talk show host, just now on hughhewitt.com.

  • CitizenEvans

    Nice lede.

  • http://radamisto.blogspot.com piniella

    ACCORDING TO NIELSEN, DEM > GOP

    Nielsen has released ratings for the DNC and RNC and the DNC won!

    Closing Night of Democratic National Convention Draws 35.7 million Viewers

    September 7, 2012

    An estimated 35.7 million people watched the third and final night of
    the 2012 Democratic National Convention on Thursday, September 6. The
    closing night of the DNC was carried live from Charlotte, North Carolina
    across thirteen networks and featured a speech by President Barack
    Obama.

    Final Night of Republican National Convention Draws 30.3 million Viewers

    August 31, 2012

    An estimated 30.3 million people watched the fourth and final night of
    the 2012 Republican National Convention on Thursday, August 30.

    • BajaDemocrats

      And Gallup’s poll for Obama’s Job Approval rating averages 3 days of polling. At the end of the GOP Convention it was 45/48. By the end of the 2nd day of the Democratic Convention which featured Bill Clinton, it had jumped to 52/43, and that doesn’t include the 3rd & final night with Obama’s speech. As Republican strategist Alex Castellanos said after Clinton’s speech” “It’s done. This is moment that probably reelected Barack Obama”.

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