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I love ya, Chris, but--puh-leeeze. Everyone knows what Durbin was doing when he put those words together.
I like Chris too much to even read further than that.
Isn't it about time DurbinLaden was told to stick his head up a dead bear's bum?
Ah, couldn't resist, had to scan the rest. I'll only comment on this, though.
As an agnostic, I have no problem with no agnostics or atheists being on the court. I don't care HOW a judge arrives at a particular position--religion, philosophy, whatever. It just so happens that those on the court who see things my way are Christians. So what? The atheists I know don't vote anything like I do, so why would I want THEM on the court--to "balance" the religious backgrounds of those in a non-religious environment? Isn't that called bigotry?
" The Roman Catholic Church claims the right to legislate on morals for all its members and to excommunicate them if they don't conform. The church is also a foreign state, which has diplomatic relations with Washington. In the very recent past, this church and this state gave asylum to Cardinal Bernard Law, who should have been indicted for his role in the systematic rape and torture of thousands of American children."
Oh gee. I don't have enough time in my entire year to take this apart word by word. Suffice it to say that these two statements are the crown jewels made of paste and rhinestones that represent the bulk of the left's argument.
Absolute bull hockey.
I don't know who this idiot (journalist) is or what it is he is pretending to be but he is a fool…a fool in the biblical sense.
Mr. Hitchens (like most fools) seems to think that if he says that Durbin was misquoted and puts it into an article well, that’s that. I heard Durbin’s statement. I read the transcript. Durbin said and meant what rational (non-fools) people heard…the US is just like Hitler and Stalin.
Mr. Hitchens, in this article, goes on to hit every single liberal talking point except pollution. He even included the nuanced “is it kosher to mention these things” so that it is implied that he even questions Jewish morality.
Mr. Hitchens is a fool with an agenda and a platform from which to broadcast his agenda.
God help us…God help him.
1. Needs barf alert.
2. Questioning about or taking religion into consideration in any way for the confirmation process is SEPCIFICALLY PROHIBITED BY THE CONSTITUTION.
Of course, his hatred for Roman Catholicism is deep. Not only does it come out all the time, it comes out is way that would be deeply embarrassing to normal human beings, such as his drunken tirade against Mother Teresa during ABC's televised coverage of her funeral and the two vicious columns he wrote attacking John Paul II--on the occasion of his death.
His support for the so-called War on Terror is of a piece. As a Trotskyite, Hitchens has always supported "world revolution," and that's what he sees in our current neocon foreign policy, as interviews he has given to leftist reporters make clear. He hates the Islamists not because they are terrorists--Commies have always been terrorists--but because they believe in God, after a fashion. He'd just as soon be lobbing cruise missiles into St. Peter's as bombing the Taliban. (He probably also harbors some resentment of the Islamists for the role they played in driving the Soviets out of Afghanistan, just as he clearly resented the role John Paul II played in bringing down the Soviet Empire).
Hitchens' entire world view is based on his hatred of religion and tradtion. An absolutely disgusting human being.
Last I heard, Durbin himself said what Turley described flat did not happen.
And of course, Durbin compared troops at Gitmo to Hitler, Stalin, etc. He said if one did not know what he described happened at Gitmo, one would surely think it happened at the hands of Nazis, etc.
And just what does this mean? Are we supposed to care that this "author" doesn't approve of the new Pope? This guy is a self-important Idiotarian.