Posted on 08/09/2014 10:17:07 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Kirsten Powers and other panelists on the FOX News program “Outnumbered” were discussing Obama’s newly discovered concern for Christians in the middle east and things got a little heated.
Powers, who is a liberal and frequent defender of Obama, was one of the most vocal critics.
Tim Cavanaugh of National Review has the details:
…Kirsten Powers, usually the most liberal of the panelists, tore the president a new one:
“He has not uttered the word ‘Christian,’ and now suddenly he throws it in with the Yazidis,” Powers said. “We’re not doing any airdrops to the Christians, who are refugees in the Kurdish region. [Virginia Congressman Frank] Wolf has taken to the floor, I think, seven days in a row now, pleading with the administration: Please help these people. They need humanitarian aid; they need drinking water. They have nothing. They’ve lost their homes; they’ve lost everything.
The White House has done nothing; they’ve said nothing. And then the president goes on and goes into quite a lot of detail about the Yazidis, and never really gets into the specifics about Christians. I mean, it’s really unbelievable, and he has no right to invoke humantiarianism, because he is not a humanitarian president. A humanitarian president does not sit quietly by, while hundreds of thousands of Christians in Iraq [are uprooted or killed]– forget about the rest of the Middle East — and doesn’t say a word.”
Here’s the video (jump ahead to 2:00 for her comments):
VERY interesting. I wonder what state her marriage is in? I heard he say one time that she was married to a Turk who is a Muslim.
VERY interesting. I wonder what state her marriage is in? I heard he say one time that she was married to a Turk who is a Muslim.
I look for her to convert to conservatism as did Charles K.
He has the back bone, if fact he relishes going after political adversaries. Why not unleash his anger and wrath towards these Muslim slugs?
Is she the one who is the recent convert to Catholicism? She’s coming around.
Her husband Marty Makary is an Egyptian Coptic Christian who has become an evangelical.
And she dated Anthony Weiner...she sure can pick ‘em.
OOOOOPS...sorry, Carlos Danger & Anthony Weiner are one and the same. Knew that sounded a tad familiar.
Would like to see that too, but I think she would turn indie instead. I don’t think she has the stomach to ever consider herself conservative.
The Spreading Scourge of Anti-Christian Persecution
Dr. Ben Carson
TOWNHALL 8/6/2014
Intolerance that fosters pogroms abroad is taking root in U.S. communities. Sobering and unforgettable images are projected across our television and computer screens. They should elicit the most basic instincts of both fear and compassion.
I’m referring to images of showing the persecution of hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of our fellow brothers and sisters by incomprehensible religious zealots. Their intolerance of Christianity is beyond horrible.
People are beheaded for their faith. Women and young girls are sexually violated, and whole families are wantonly slaughtered in cold blood. Perhaps just as abhorrent is the profound silence of the current administration. Even though President Obama has declared that we are not a Judeo-Christian nation, we are still compassionate people who should not ignore humanitarian atrocities, much less ones where the victims are only guilty of maintaining a belief in the principles espoused by Jesus Christ.
We have an obligation as Americans to denounce these acts of persecution. Even those who do not worship a higher deity should be concerned. For when we stand up to such intolerance, we are defending the root of freedom. We are defending choice — the ability to worship and call on the name of a heavenly being without fear of torture and abandonment.
The president, who very early in his tenure won the Nobel Peace Prize, now has an opportunity to truly be the broker of peace in a very troubled part of the world. He can be a champion of freedom of religion, a founding principle of our nation. As long as religious practices do not infringe upon the rights of others, he can make it clear that it is wrong to interfere with those practices.
THE REST OF THE ARTICLE
How interesting. I will look at her from a different perspective now.
He’s muslim, what do you expect?
Reply #22 says he’s a Coptic Christian.
Excuse me. That should be Reply #26.
It was a reply to the article, not the person it went to.
Good grief. Bad sense, and even worse taste! *shudder*
I doubt that seriously.
Guess politics changes when like-thinkers are hunted and exterminated and your POTUS don’t give a rats ass, eh?
Welcome to our world, Ms.
If we still claim to be a society that is founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and do not help Israel and the Christians in Iraq, the history of Sodom and Gomorrah will be a spring rain compared to what will befall our country.
She should also try to change that sullen dhimmicrat look in her eyes for something more positive.
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