Posted on 11/23/2004 2:37:29 PM PST by Jeff Blogworthy
~9:05pm~ EST EVANGELICAL HILLARY?: I admit I nearly fell out of my chair laughing when I read the quote attributed to Hillary from an upcoming print edition of the National Review.
HillaryWatch was the first one to bring it to my attention...
Speaking to a "church based" newsletter this week in anticipation of the opening of the Clinton Presidential Library, Mrs. Clinton made the following statements...
"I always take time to worship God in as evangelical a way as is feasible, given time and location constraints. As you know, I consider myself an evangelical Christian, really a Christian conservative, if you want to know the truth, so it's nice to be 'home' again in the South, which I really consider my quote-unquote home even though I live in New York most of the time. Well, Washington, D.C., most of the time, actually, but if I'm not there I'm in New York, of course, but always thinking about being here, in the South, my spiritual home, where I shared so many wonderful evangelical . . . moments and . . . events."
I went to one of the leading "evangelical" schools in the nation. I can quite assuredly verify for you that there is no "EVANGELICAL WAY" of worshiping. Evangelicals are as diverse as the rest of the population.
What unifies them - and identifies them AS evangelicals - is not how they worship. It is what they believe.
And this is yet another glaring example of how liberals believe that the reason they lost in 2004 was because they did not trick the population into thinking that the political left "believes" as well.
The "Values Voters" that participated in the election this year - don't have some ethereal mystical type of belief system. They actually DO BELIEVE in certain absolutes and they organize their lives around the beliefs they hold.
Caring for the poor - is not a "Values Voters" issue - liberals and conservatives alike believe that we need to help the poor. The difference in the two is HOW to go about doing it.
The "Values Voters" this year actually hold specific conviction about morality - and the left has been left hanging clueless since as to figure out how to respond to people of strong conviction.
So in that reality you will continue to see Hillary and others say silly things like how they LOVE to worship "in as much of an evangelical way as is feasible"...
In fact they give blatant pandering a bad name. --------------------------------------------------
This is satire from Rob Long ("The Long View") on National Review Online. If you read other "The Long View" pieces, you will see that they are satire in the same style.
http://www.nationalreview.com/issue/long200411160825.asp
Hi, thanks for answering.
Yes, I did a google alert for Hillary
and found more information on this story.
The reporter at the link below did a nice job of
clearing up the satirical nature of some quotes
attributed to Hillary Clinton.
> Subject: Google Alert - Hillary
>
> CONSERVATIVE blogs promote NRO's apocryphal church
> "newsletter" to ...
> Media Matters for America - Washington,DC,USA
> ... 16 column (which will appear in an upcoming
> edition of the print version
> of the National Review) purported to quote a
> statement Senator Hillary
> Rodham Clinton ...
Read more at this link:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200411240003
>
I take it as a sign of God's great mercy that He hasn't yet dropped a ZOT on Hillary after everything she's done so far.
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