Posted on 09/19/2009 2:31:15 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
An audience of 2,000 Christian conservatives gathered to listen to their political and media icons, condemn the Obama administation's alleged socialist agenda and plot the downfall of the Democrats at the 2010 mid-term elections.
The mood was angry and defiant at the annual "Values Voters Summit", which kicked off with a rousing call to arms from Republican Congressman Mike Pence, from Indiana, a man some see as a future presidential candidate.
He spoke of a "great American awakening", while another Congressman, Tom Price of Georgia, spoke of lighting "bushfires of freedom", to roars of excited approval from the floor.
Scent of blood
After weeks of vociferous attacks on several fronts, including the Obama healthcare proposals ("Obama-care" to the assembled crowd), American conservatives feel they are back on the front foot. Rightly or wrongly, they scent blood.
But behind the confident bluster, dark fears swirl. One delegate, Sue Phelps, drew comparisons between Barack Obama, Fidel Castro and Adolf Hitler - "they were good orators too" - and said the president's nationality and religion were "unanswered questions".
From the podium, Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor stoked the audience's fears with a joke about a man who goes to sleep in America and wakes up, after a year of Obama, to find himself living in Sweden.
To many foreign ears, the thought of waking up in Sweden might seem rather appealing, but to this fiercely patriotic crowd it would not have made much difference if Mr Cantor had substituted Sweden for North Korea.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
To you socialists souls in the UK who are post-christian in everything and no longer have freedom I can see why you say "alleged." Makes you idiots in the BBC, mind you, but I can see why you say it.
How dare those Christians be defiant! BBC you had better wake up. One day John Bull will awaken and you libtards will be finished then. Can't wait.
Wish I could have been there.
“Defiant” - well, I guess that means they admit we’re under attack!
Cantor needs to STFU.
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