[Ron in Acreage]

Another America bashing editorial in The PB Post. Par for the course. Definately needs some freeping sense.

[Texas Eagle]

...the whole idea of America is supposed to be about keeping religion and government separate so that both will remain strong and protected. The Founders would be astonished to see how far we've drifted from that brilliant principle. They certainly wouldn't have understood what went on at the Saddleback Church last weekend...

John Adams:
“ The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
• “[July 4th] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.”
–John Adams in a letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress

[Texas Eagle]

John Quincy Adams:
• “Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?" “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity"?
--1837, at the age of 69, when he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts.

“The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.”
John Quincy Adams. Letters to his son. p. 61

[donna]

The Founders would be astonished to see how far we've drifted from that brilliant principle.

The Founders believed that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof".

They didn't limit the states from establishing a religion - it was up to each state to do as it pleased.

President Jefferson attended church services in the Capitol Building on Sundays.

[Lancey Howard]

More lame excuse-making by an embittered scumbag liberal Democrat who was humiliated by his candidate’s pathetic performance at Saddleback.

[Lorianne]

Religion and politics have always been entertwined, for good and ill.

You can’t make blanket statements like this author does about the time period of the Founders or subsequent eras. (For example: religion was used as a basis to both oppose and support the practice of slavery).

I don’t think the author has read much history.

[kcvl]

More than 300 Palm Beach Post employees have applied for buyouts and all have been accepted, according to an internal memo.

updated list of those who have been accepted for the buyout includes:

Editorial writer Dan Moffett

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The Palm Beach Post: Ronald Griffis: “Since the early 80's, many locals have referred to it as the 'Palm Beach Pravda' for the nearly comical level of progressive propaganda in its pages. For good examples of this, you can visit the op-ed pages online (particularly the local columnists) or check out their latest multimedia Special Report.”

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For saying balloting in Florida on November 7th went without a hitch

For their editorial cartoonist comparing registered Republicans to the KKK

For columnist Dan Moffet using shoddy statistics in a Sunday column

For insulting the troops in Iraq

Randy Schultz got one for calling students who do well in class, insignificant i.e. nerds

[Texas Eagle]

Sen. McCain scored big points when he admitted leading a "very imperfect" life and talked contritely about the failure of his first marriage. It's probably too late for Sen. Obama to have an extramarital affair, confess it and win redemption in time for Election Day. He should have taken care of this years ago and come into the race fully prepared to be commander in chief.

Anyway, John Edwards has poisoned the waters of public tolerance for philandering, at least for now.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Did John McCain say his first marriage failed because he cheated on his wife? If so, I missed it.

[kcvl]

It doesn't take a theologian to ask politicians hard questions about the moral conduct of government. Agnostics or atheists can do the interviewing just as well.

For example, how can the richest country on earth still have children who go to bed hungry each night?

How about the death penalty?

What is the United States' moral responsibility to take care of the planet?

More liberal BS.

[Reagan Man]

Dan Moffett sounds like another bleeding heart liberal.

Rick Warren did a good job. McCain was super. Obama was lost.

[missnry]

... the whole idea of America is supposed to be about keeping religion and government separate so that both will remain strong and protected.

That is the greatest lie of our times. The author should go back to the beginning of this country and study how the legislators conducted themselves with regards to "religion." Then come back and tell us about keeping religion and government separate.